What did your kids eat for Thanksgiving dinner?

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Anonymous wrote:Just for fun. My 5 year old was a very picky toddler and is coming out of it finally. She had turkey, green beans, rolls, and cranberry sauce. Wouldn’t try stuffing, mashed potatoes, roasted veggies, or gravy. What did your kid(s) eat?

They eat what is served or they go hungry. I am not a short order cook.

I think that many of us serve enough foods at Thanksgiving that a kid can make choices, without turning the parents into short order cooks.

I have never had lpicky eaters because there was no choice: eat what is served or go hungry Picky eaters are the result of bad parenting.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just for fun. My 5 year old was a very picky toddler and is coming out of it finally. She had turkey, green beans, rolls, and cranberry sauce. Wouldn’t try stuffing, mashed potatoes, roasted veggies, or gravy. What did your kid(s) eat?

They eat what is served or they go hungry. I am not a short order cook.

I think that many of us serve enough foods at Thanksgiving that a kid can make choices, without turning the parents into short order cooks.

I have never had lpicky eaters because there was no choice: eat what is served or go hungry Picky eaters are the result of bad parenting.

So, what would happen if your kid went days or weeks without eating, like mine would. I don't mind altering meals as each of us likes different things. I pick one thing everyone will eat and then do a mix of the rest. I tried eat it or starve. Kid would starve for days.

[Anonymous]

4 and 5 year old
Turkey
Mashed potatoes
Green beans with pancetta
Uncooked Brussel sprouts
Ice cream
Ginger ale

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What do you mean? My kids (8 and 5) ate exactly what we ate. Not tons of everything, but at least one try-it bite. Traditional turkey dinner. They liked most of it.

Thank you! You answered the question beautifully. That's exactly what is meant by "what did your child eat?"

Which foods didn't your children like?

They didn't like the roasted parsnips, but they ate a few bites. I don't understand why they would eat antyhing other than what DH and I ate?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Learn to read. Evaporated milk and sweetened condensed milk are not the same thing.

Way to grind something lighthearted into dust.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Leg of lamb, saffron rice, assorted veggies and then whipped cream and fruit with maraschino cherries, their favorite.

Yum

Can you invite me over next year?

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Kitcat - don’t judge!

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Anonymous wrote:Kitcat - don’t judge!

Sounds good here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just for fun. My 5 year old was a very picky toddler and is coming out of it finally. She had turkey, green beans, rolls, and cranberry sauce. Wouldn’t try stuffing, mashed potatoes, roasted veggies, or gravy. What did your kid(s) eat?

They eat what is served or they go hungry. I am not a short order cook.

I think that many of us serve enough foods at Thanksgiving that a kid can make choices, without turning the parents into short order cooks.

I have never had lpicky eaters because there was no choice: eat what is served or go hungry Picky eaters are the result of bad parenting.

So, what would happen if your kid went days or weeks without eating, like mine would. I don't mind altering meals as each of us likes different things. I pick one thing everyone will eat and then do a mix of the rest. I tried eat it or starve. Kid would starve for days.

+1. And wake up crying in the middle of the night with a stomachache from hunger, then still refuse to eat. Call me lazy, but more than one night of that would be actual abuse and nope. Instead I kept offering and waited patiently for it to be outgrown. Worked much better than abusive starvation, thanks.

[Anonymous]

9 year old: turkey, ham, green beans, mashed potatoes, and rolls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine are teens and ate everything except the green beans. But, when they were little they pretty much only ate ham (my SIL always does a ham and a turkey), mac & cheese, and biscuits.

So interesting. As a little kid and and as a teen I would only eat the green beans and the mashed potatoes. Pumpkin pie was gross to me. Later after reading about food aversions I realized I have a texture thing going on. I became a vegetarian in college -- it seems fairly natural considering my lifelong aversion to meat. Also cheese -- I could not eat cheese til my 30s.

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Anonymous wrote:7 years old

A few bites of sweet potatoes and tons of mini marshmallows
2 bites turkey
2 bites stuffing
Many frozen peas
Pumpkin pie w/ ice cream
Sugar cookie

So your kid had sugar for dinner. Is he/she obese and diabetic?

[Anonymous]

10 year old:
turkey
Mashed potatoes w/kimchi
Cranberry sauce
Gravy
Rolls
Stuffing

8 year old
Sweet potato and rolls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What do you mean? My kids (8 and 5) ate exactly what we ate. Not tons of everything, but at least one try-it bite. Traditional turkey dinner. They liked most of it.

Thank you! You answered the question beautifully. That's exactly what is meant by "what did your child eat?"

Which foods didn't your children like?

They didn't like the roasted parsnips, but they ate a few bites. I don't understand why they would eat antyhing other than what DH and I ate?

Hell, nobody likes roasted parsnips, beets, spinach, turnip greens/cooked turnips, rutabagas, cooked carrots (except carrot cake)
No wonder you have picky eaters!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Mine are teens and ate everything except the green beans. But, when they were little they pretty much only ate ham (my SIL always does a ham and a turkey), mac & cheese, and biscuits.

So interesting. As a little kid and and as a teen I would only eat the green beans and the mashed potatoes. Pumpkin pie was gross to me. Later after reading about food aversions I realized I have a texture thing going on. I became a vegetarian in college -- it seems fairly natural considering my lifelong aversion to meat. Also cheese -- I could not eat cheese til my 30s.

Pumpkin is a vegetable.