Share your 'Fussy Eater' failproof menu!

[mum_inlove]

So my ds is becoming sooooo fussy, it's a nightmare. But I do find hiding, puree, grated, and chops the vegies really fine do work.

My doctor told me not to stress and not to fight him on mealtime. So now, as well as offering the vegies on his plate as normal, I also hide them in his food. He won't touch the ones on plate, but will eat his favourite food with no problem.

So my menus are

Homemade meat pie, I add mash potato under the pastry once it cooked.

HOmemade chips
Macaroni and cheese
Wrap (chicken, or cold meat)
Corn and tuna fritters
'Perkedel', I steam some potato and corn or other vegies. Once it soft, mash it, add some tuna or meat if you like. Shape into bite size, dip in whisked egg white, and fry in little oil. It's like fish cake in a way.
Lasagna
Burger patty

I also now bake my own biscuits, and bake a lot of muffins with fruit and veg combinations (banana+carrot, apple +pumpkin, sultana+zuchini, etc)

So what's yours?:detective:

[JabberJaw]

Rissole's are my favorite all time veggie hiders! lol
I add grated zucchini,carrot,tomato and onion ohhh and a big handful of grated cheese, these my kids love even my daughter who wont touch veggies. I make double batches and the kids have them cold on there sandwiches the next day.

I grate veg into pasta sauce, stuff chicken breast with grated veg, make wraps packed with salad and grate whatever i can into them!

[Jesska]

what a fantastic thread to start, my kids arent that fussy anymore but they were when they were younger... the meals that would always win them over were.........

spaghetti
rissotto
chicken fettuccine
chicken parm and vegies

umm ill have to think of more of the meals thats all i can think of right now.

[Jesska]

misskels - your rissoles sound devine im gunna have to try em!

[dillydAlly]

I have had to make some sneaky foods for soem fussy eaters at my old childcare centre.

I make Macaroni cheese... Which usually just consists of Tin of tomato soup and pasta mixed with Cheese instead:

1 tin of tomato Soup
Handful of pumkin pieces
1 Large Carrot
1/2 Head of brocoli

I wizz it all up in the blender till it's smooth and then I mix it in with the macaroni and add a generous amount of cheese.... They will never know...

I like to make a hug batch of spag bol sauce... which I also use for lasagne and toasted sandwiches/wraps.

Take 500g Mince
2 Zucchinis
Eggplant
Carrots

Grate the veges into the pan with some garlic and stir till they are soft... I add a little stock to make they go softer and not stick.

Take these out and then brown the mince. (in the same juices) and once brown I chuck the veges back in with a jar of pasta sauce (can just be tomoatoes if you don't want to use the prepared ones and a cup of chicken stock....

I cook it for about 3 hours adding more fluid as needed.. By the time it's cooked you can never tell it's got veges in it.

I used to make pancakes (piklets)

I would make a normal batch of pancake mix and then blend some strawberries or banana into it.


I'm sure I have lots more though!

[LittleMissyMoo]

I agree, awesome thread for new ideas! My Dd's pretty good with food but there are some clear favourites :yes:

Pumpkin, spiniach and ricotta lasagna.
Home made chicken and veg mini pies (I use a muffin tin).
Flan topped with cheese made with whisked egg and hidden vegies like zuchini, onion, spiniach and capsicum.
Sheppherds pie.
Mini pizzas made on thin wrap breads.

[mum_inlove]

There are some great ideas there.

My ds now wouldn't even eat steak or chunky meat and chicken. It is getting really frustrating.

The gp wanted me to take him for a blood test to see his vitamin and nutrient level, but I just couldn't do it to him. I mean I know what the result is going to be.

I found since we stop eating takeaway all together, he does eat much better. Cooking time just taking extra longer because of all the chopping and pureeing, thank god for my 'darling' tupperware chopper.

Oh and spinach rolls also goes down well. As well mix veg and fruit juice. :yes:

[beebs]

My DS is a really bad eater - it stresses me out so much -and he has always been like this. I'm at my wits end.

He eats no meat or protein.
The only things he eats are
toast, rice cakes, fruit, yogurt, weetbix, and norganics ceral, any kind of dry biscuit (vita wheats etc). Of course if he is at a party or something he'll go straight for cake or chocolate!

He wont try anything new - I have made everything in the world I can think of - I have blended, pureed and grated until the cows came home. I am fresh out of ideas....sigh. He won't even eat mac or cheese or anything! Or even hot chips or anything like that - I thought all kids loved mac and cheese and hot chips!

[louise37]

Hi i am going through this as well . DD is nearly 3 and won't eat much dinner. Her appetite is all over the place. She use to love her breakfast but now she is lucky to have 1/2 a weetbix. I have cut all snacks out between meals and she will only have a snack such as fruit if she keeps on asking for something to eat and i am limiting that as well.Dinner time is such a nightmare i dread it everynight. I have pureed vegies and hidden them i make all what was her favorite meals , but she will have 2 spoonfulls if i am lucky and say " i don't like it". DS and i keep eating our dinner pretending that we haven't heard her and when we are finished we say that it was soooo yummy and that she should try some. She gets nothing else to eat if she doesn't eat her dinner .I am starting to really worry as alot of people are say that she looks very dark under the eyes.What can i do ?? We eat healthy foods and i would like her to do the same. What she does eat is yogurt and she is a real fruit bat and loves her fruit . I think she would be happy just to eat that!!!She has always been a bit fussy, but now it is really doing my head in. HELP!!

[JabberJaw]

Hi i am going through this as well . DD is nearly 3 and won't eat much dinner. Her appetite is all over the place. She use to love her breakfast but now she is lucky to have 1/2 a weetbix. I have cut all snacks out between meals and she will only have a snack such as fruit if she keeps on asking for something to eat and i am limiting that as well.Dinner time is such a nightmare i dread it everynight. I have pureed vegies and hidden them i make all what was her favorite meals , but she will have 2 spoonfulls if i am lucky and say " i don't like it". DS and i keep eating our dinner pretending that we haven't heard her and when we are finished we say that it was soooo yummy and that she should try some. She gets nothing else to eat if she doesn't eat her dinner .I am starting to really worry as alot of people are say that she looks very dark under the eyes.What can i do ?? We eat healthy foods and i would like her to do the same. What she does eat is yogurt and she is a real fruit bat and loves her fruit . I think she would be happy just to eat that!!!She has always been a bit fussy, but now it is really doing my head in. HELP!!

I would give her what she will eat like fruit and yogurt, offer other things like meat and veg but just get into her what you can. I wouldn't limit the fruit if she will only eat that, i would make her fruit salad for dinner or something.
Try getting her to help out in the kitchen, let her taste foods raw and cooked, discover there texture an taste,,raw opposed to cooked.
Sound pretty typical for the age group....fruit is good as is yogurt.

[mum_inlove]

:hugs::hugs:louise37. It is hard, isn't it? I get my family and professional telling me not to worry. But how are we not supposed to worry?

I do have to agree not to stress so much. I realised all the 'battle at dinnertime' doesn't help at all. When my ds refused to eat his meal, I take a deep breath and tell him 'if you don't want to eat, push your plate forward and stay seated until everyone finish'. Sometimes he'll end up with an extra one or two spoonful.

If she only wants to eat yogurt, let her have it. But keeps offering the other food slowly.

How about cakes or muffin? Does she likes them? Because like I wrote in my pp, I made mix vegies and fruit muffin (example, pumpkin-apple), and ds eats them with no problem, no gagging, no choking, nothing. I don't feel bad giving it to them because I try to use all the better stuff (no sugar, wholemeal flour, etc). But I still give it only at afternoon or morning tea, and still follow the same rule for meal time (not eating, don't get anything else).

You could also purchased children' vitamin called Pentavite. I was told by my gp to give it to ds just to boost his nutrient level a little bit.