Food kids will eat
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Anonymous
| I was wondering if we could start a thread with foods kids will eat? The kids I nanny are SO picky and I’m running out of food to serve besides tacos, pasta and teriyaki chicken! They won’t eat lasagna or meatballs or Shepard’s pie or soup or anything o usually make. Help please! |
Anonymous
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Pumpkin pie French toast
1/2 baked butternut squash 8 eggs 1/2-3/4 c milk 8-10 slices dense bread (I like 15 grain or similar for this) 1 Tbsp vanilla 1 tsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp nutmeg 1/4 tsp clove 1/4 tsp ginger 1/8 tsp salt Oil/butter for the pan as needed Blend the squash, eggs and milk with the spices. It will be very, very thick, so poke the bread first, and let it sit in the mixture for 1-2 minutes before transferring to the pan. Cook on medium, not high, and wait an extra minute or two longer than you think you need before you try to flip. I cut it up and use about 1 tsp maple syrup on this. As long as the kids see the syrup go on, they don’t argue about getting more sugar. |
Anonymous
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Invite other kids over and serve new food. My charges will be more likely to eat what their friends are eating if I don’t mention it.
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Anonymous
| That pumpkin pie French toast sounds so good, I want to eat it myself!! Thanks! |
Anonymous
Kids love it. Best (IMO) is that there’s no added sugar and it’s a balanced meal, all by itself, so I don’t care how much they eat. I don’t don’t have to worry about having them eat more veggie or protein. |
Anonymous
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You need to teach them how to be healthy eaters.
Take them to the supermarket and ask them to pick some items and cook together. They can pick one veggie, one protein and one carb. Then you can search online what you can make or ask them to search if they're old enough. |
Anonymous
+1. My charge will eat anything she picks out and cooks with me. |
Anonymous
| Prepare meal and serve. "This is dinner (or whichever meal), eat or go hungry. Picky eaters are made by idiot parents. |
Anonymous
I wouldn’t consider that a balanced meal - squash is very high carb and so is the bread. What about protein? The egg? |
Anonymous
That’s a great way to get fired. I do a lot of work expanding palates. “One bite to be polite” of each thing on the plate becomes eating half (of one serving spoon), then the child eventually eats more. Expecting a child to go straight to “eat it or go hungry” isn’t reasonable. You don’t take a toddler straight from being dressed by someone else to dressing themselves completely. You work in small steps, one thing on the plate you know they like, and at least one new thing or food served in a way they haven’t seen, at most one thing thing you already know they don’t like. If all they see are things they don’t like or don’t recognize, you’re more likely to create issues around food. |
Anonymous
Squash is a vegetable; I don’t expect kids to eat low carb veggies at each meal. Yes, eggs are protein. When you are moving kids away from plain pasta and butter, it’s a step towards eating healthy food. When they see that veggies can taste good, they are more willing to try other foods. |
Anonymous
| My employers would absolutely support, if you don’t eat what you are served, you don’t eat. |
Anonymous
Then your charges aren’t the subject of the thread. We’re talking about healthy/healthier food to tempt picky eaters into eating. |
Anonymous
This is what my parents did. I'm a picky eater. You are wrong. |
Anonymous
You must not have kids. |