Comments on: Bolognaise bribery

By: Beta Mum

Beta Mum — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:18:33 +0000

SAHD - I had to fudge the issue of pigs in sausages for a while.

WM - I vaguely remember that story, and he didn’t look too bad on it.

MatL - I found it easier when they were babies, then harder when they started eliminating previously favourite foods from their diet one by one, just to se if they could. If you let them get away with it then, it’s much harder to get them eating the stuff again later on.

OM - I try not to put much time into anything I make for them, otherwise my fury at their rejection would be exponentially greater.

DM - If someone would descend every day at 5.30 to take over for an hour, I would have their babies, thereby giving myself many more years of fraught teatimes.

Clara - Ben will often choose no food over the food on offer. But he’s no more compliant the next day, just extra hungry for breakfast.

By: clara

clara — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 10:34:36 +0000

I go through phases of trying to starve them into submission but it’s always me who gives in after several evenings of lovingly prepared uneaten meals.

By: dulwichmum

dulwichmum — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 07:59:34 +0000

I must admit I find the whole food/meal issue simply soul destroying. This is the one thing that genuinely makes me want to leave home.

By: Omega Mummy

Omega Mummy — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 22:22:21 +0000

I think not worrying too much about it is the only way forward. I’m afraid I have given up on anything with more than five ingredients because you can guarantee that one will only eat it with half the ingredients removed, one with the other half removed, and the third will make gagging noises and hold her own nose as she gamely forces an amount you could fit on the head of a pin down her throat. It’s all very lowering.

By: Mother at Large

Mother at Large — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:32:44 +0000

Looks perfectly tasty to me, judging by the photo. Take heart - at least you’re past the stage where they flick it at you, as happened to me this evening. I have an entire freezer full of boxes of food daughter won’t eat. Sometimes I despair. I work so hard to make the stuff, then she won’t take a mouthful. SO frustrating. My current solution is to wheel out the Petit Filous fromage frais. She likes that so much she’ll even feed herself. Goodness, I thought all the meal-time trauma would disappear as daughter got older, now I can see it what lies ahead…

By: Working Mum

Working Mum — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:48:23 +0000

Consistency never was my children’s forte either! I think if you can get your kids to eat any vegetables you’re probably doing better than many! Next time, just remember the (true) story of the thirteen year old boy who made the news because he’d been raised purely on jam sandwiches. And they were made with white bread!

By: Stay at home dad

Stay at home dad — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:53:54 +0000

You’re suffering aren’t you, Beta Mum! I had that happen when my daughter discovered that Bolognaise had tomatoes in it. Good raw vegetable intake though…