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.

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.

I am not a ogre and always served one or two things they liked. However, from the time the started esting solid foods, I served every kind of vegetable as well as always having fruit available. Milk was also always available. No child ever woke up crying because they were hungry
Stop being s fool!

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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?

Some kids don't eat a lot of new foods, especially foods that are only served at Thanksgiving.

This post was to talk about what foods your kids did eat from the Thanksgiving table. If your children ate all the foods except they didn't really like the parsnips, Yay you! Have a cookie.

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Anonymous wrote:1,3,5 they ate everything- stuffing, mashed potatoes, broccoli rice casserole, turkey, and their fav- cranberries. I just don't get it when kids get separate meals. We have struggled with picky eaters, but we held the line.

And I don’t understand folks that are mystified by the experiences of others being different than theirs. Good on you for having made it through with kids that fall into line with your parenting strategies. Understand that it’s an imperfect thing for many, even if we did exactly the same thing, it can have a different result. Food aversions and personality can’t always be trained out. We’ve opted to not struggle anymore and offer safe food choices along with what we’d like them to eat. Check out kids eat in color, it’s helpful.

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I'm always amazed by people who can't seem to grasp this.

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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.

I am not a ogre and always served one or two things they liked. However, from the time the started esting solid foods, I served every kind of vegetable as well as always having fruit available. Milk was also always available. No child ever woke up crying because they were hungry
Stop being s fool!

So which is it... if you didn't have picky eaters, why did you have to be sure to serve one or two things they liked?

NP here, so no dog in this fight, but you sound delusional and judgemental. My parents didn't make special meals for the kids and I was an extremely picky eater. I didn't grow out of it until my 20's.

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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?

Some kids don't eat a lot of new foods, especially foods that are only served at Thanksgiving.

This post was to talk about what foods your kids did eat from the Thanksgiving table. If your children ate all the foods except they didn't really like the parsnips, Yay you! Have a cookie.

In sure your kids just get the cookie regardless of whether they are properly. YAY, cookies all around!

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Our parenting strategy is that kids should enjoy food. They are encouraged to try a bite of everything and if they don't like it they can spit it out.

One if my kids is fussy (older one), another is adventurous. Our love language is good food so we made enough dishes that everybody could have a choice and eat what they wanted to. Unanimously they voted against Turkey. And they loved the rosemary, garlic, lemon cornish hens.

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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.

It's the texture thing. Smelled delicious, made me gag when it was in my mouth.

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I too was picky until my late teens. My parents would have laughed if I said i wanted something else to eat that was not on the table. Mom worked hard to prepare it; you eat it or be hungry. Well, there was always Wonder bread in the bread drawer.

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Three kids, ages 3-7. We all ate turkey noodle soup with turkey meatballs. One kid also ate some turkey meat with cranberry sauce. We had brownies for dessert. Our COVID Thanksgiving meal was much smaller than past years due to not having any guests.

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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?

Some kids don't eat a lot of new foods, especially foods that are only served at Thanksgiving.

This post was to talk about what foods your kids did eat from the Thanksgiving table. If your children ate all the foods except they didn't really like the parsnips, Yay you! Have a cookie.

In sure your kids just get the cookie regardless of whether they are properly. YAY, cookies all around!

Sadly, my child was such a severe picky eater, he did not eat cookies. ANY cookie. Can you imagine?

I would have been so thrilled to have him eat a slice of cake or a cookie like my other kids.

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Anonymous wrote:I too was picky until my late teens. My parents would have laughed if I said i wanted something else to eat that was not on the table. Mom worked hard to prepare it; you eat it or be hungry. Well, there was always Wonder bread in the bread drawer.

I'm not sure how this has descended into a conversation about how parents allow their kids to eat things not on the table.

People are reporting their kids as eating things like rolls, and peas, and turkey, and mashed potatoes, and pumpkin. At least in my house, those are pretty common parts of the Thanksgiving meal.

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Everything that we ate, except stuffing and green bean casserole. Corn, turkey, sweet potato casserole, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, and green beans (plain vs. the casserole for us).

Boys, age 9 and 13.