Funky Lunch

[GrannyJules]

Is this going a bit too far?!

http://www.funkylunch.com/gallery.htm

Is this what is called "playing with your food"?

[Aggie]

Thats hillarious !! mind you it might get kids to eat bits of veg

[clareybel]

Love it.....
Bit time consuming to construct for a quick snack though! Cant help thinking Lottie would still only pick out and eat the bits she had a fancy for, eating what I think is good isnt high on her list of "must do's".

[Jane Jackson]

Couldn't possibly it them!!
Jane

[plantaholic]

My grandchildren (6), youngest now 10 and next 11 occasionally come to stay overnight and I try to cook them something they like. Roast dinner would be first on their list, followed by sausages, sweet and sour chicken with noodles or rice would be next. Most pasta dishes are quite popular. The youngest would eat tuna forever. If you take them out for a meal the eldest would choose duck, sea bass, quite sophisticated tastes and the youngest would choose scampi or chicken. Beef casserole is popular too. They both like pizza but I don't consider that is any more than just a sandwich. The youngest would anything chocolate until he felt sick. What do you cook for your grandchildren?

[jjoj]

My two 7 & 3 love veg except carrots ! so roast dinners are no 1 meal. little one loves smoked salmon from age of about 18mnth he would get excited if in supermarket and we passed the counter he would shout Nana orange fishy would sit quite happy in trolley munching away , ribeye steak cooked slowly in gravy another fav with them , i remember first time son came to pick little one up and he was eating ribeye my son almost fell over ,we never got that was his first words , well no when you were little we didnt get it either couldnt afford it and they do only have little portions . Children have a better choice these days they still like chips etc but not very often i do them .Jean

[GrannyJules]

I just wish Rhys would eat! He drinks mainly water, but now run a close second by milk. He has a good breakfast of Weetabix fruit puree and milk, but trying to get anything else down him is very hard work. Small sucess with beans on toast, by that I mean 6 spoonfuls and 2 bites of toast! He loves those little frommage fois pots, but is limited to two a day. He eats grapes and little tomatoes, as if they were grapes, but not a lot of calories in them. He has been known to eat a whole packet of Wotsits just the once.
Some evenings I do hear he has eaten a good tea, but it's lunches with me. Though at the moment he's not eating well at all.
No wonder he's small, but the smaller he is , I suppose it's not putting too much strain on his kidneys. So may be nature knows best, that is , if that's how it works.
He seems too have enough energy. And he has enough check ups at the hospital, for them to say if we should worry.
I'd just love to see him tuck into some thing, any thing! He's got his nursery party tomorrow, wonder if they will have better luck.

[Enid]

Granny Jules, although Rhys eats little, clearly what he eats is good. He's being given good choices for food and selecting what he needs. You say he's little. Well so am I and although there are few parallels, I do think it's true that small people only need a small amount of food. I remember constant pressure to eat more as a child. And the greater the pressure the less I could eat. I think (and this is very personal) that if you give a child a good range of good choices of food, say four or five items per meal) and then leave them to it, they will choose what they want and need. It's a bit like the baby led weaning idea. I know it's hard not to fret if you have a delicate or very special child, and it's easy to talk, but so long as portions are small and the choices are nutritious and the food is attractively presented, in most cases, children will eat what they need.