Kids not eating T'giving food? Kids in question are 10 and 7.

[raccoon]

Yesterday at T'giving dinner, the adults ate traditional T'giving food. The kids,
two young relatives of mine, ate Rice-a-roni. These kids have no dietary issues or allergies.

Is this a usual thing?

PS--And get off my lawn! LOL

[Arkansas Granny]

1. At our dinner, kids and adults ate the same food.

PS- And turn down that loud music, too!

[HappyMe]

2. I don't know if it's a common thing.

When I was a kid.... ....everyone at the same dinner. My guys always ate the Thanksgiving dinner.


Get those damn kids off the lawn!

[pipi_k]

3. I've been to many

Thanksgiving dinners and have never seen the kids eat anything different from what the adults were having.



*PS...I used to walk ten miles uphill each way through six feet of snow to have Thanksgiving dinner.

[HappyMe]

4. lol!

I'm assuming that you had no shoes or boots to wear through the snow. I didn't.

[pipi_k]

9. Absolutely

No shoes or boots



Plus I carried my entire family on my back. Mom and Dad, 7 siblings, and the family dog (a Great Dane).



Kids these days don't know easy they have it!

[antiquie]

5. Grandkids ate the same except

for the one whose Mom made two versions of sides with everything non-gluten and sugar-free. My DIL is the best.

[LP2K12]

6. I guess it all depends on the menu...

We had four children at our dinner, aged 2 through 7. All ate the food we provided. Turkey, stuffing, macaroni & cheese, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes and green beans. No complaints from any of them.

[csziggy]

7. Nothing that extreme - but one neice who didn't want the food touching

Each thing - meat, vegetables, whatever - had to be on the plate completely separate from each other and not touching. She didn't have gravy because it might seep against another item.

That was only when she was young. She's now grown out of that phase and is normal about her food.

[Kali]

10. I am still pretty much like that

[csziggy]

12. I went through a phase when I had to eat things in a specific order

Salad and cooked Vegetables first, then whatever the carbohydrate was (rice, potatoes, stuffing, etc), meat, then dessert. I'd eat all of each thing in order before starting the next.

Then I married my husband who thinks everything should be like a stew, mixed together. Once I got over being shocked by the way he ate, I began to break down my eating in order disorder.

[orleans]

13. (lol--"my eating in order disorder" has a certain ring to it) n/t

[Kali]

14. I still cringe when the gravy gets on anything but the meat and potatoes

and yes I used to eat things in order too - "worst first best last" usually like yours vegs to meat. now I can rotate amongst the foods on the plate.

[csziggy]

16. I'm at the stage that if doesn't deserve to have gravy on it

It gets its own plate! So dessert and salad have their own plates and no gravy. Everything else is fair game.

That's for meals with gravy, of course.

I've also had to break away from certain food combinations that Mom always made. Fish with spinach, mac & cheese with meatloaf, white rice with chicken. My husband likes more variety so I've learned to cook more inventively which means I have to eat more adventurously. The one thing I do have to stay away from is hot peppers - I react badly to anything on the Scoville scale so I don't cook the types of food that use the heat.

[Kali]

17. oh yeah - love the separate dishes - cafeteria style!

I love cool little bowls to fill with sauces and vegetables.

hot I love and can do no problem. my biggest problems have always been textures. I have gotten better than when I was a kid but some of that is still there. worst is wet soggy bread, I think.

yeah there are certain combos that can be hard to change. green beans with meatloaf, corn with pork chops, cream gravy with fried meat, "water" gravy with roasted. never mashed potatoes or any gravy with grilled/bbq.

[Rhiannon12866]

11. My little cousin used to dip all his food in Italian dressing

Sticks in my mind as one of the more unusual "stages." He grew out of it...

[trof]

8. Some kids have weird tastes/choices.

Grandson lived pretty much on peanut butter for months.
Granddaughter subsisted almost entirely on mac & cheese for a while.

Our daughter's take was "Feed 'em what they'll eat. Eventually they'll change."
I said that I'd never heard of a kid starving to death when there was food available.

Eventually they grew out of it.
Grandson now likes just about anything from pizza to Big Macs to sushi to raw oysters.
Pretty much the same for his little sister.

[orleans]

15. ha! i would have told them there *is* no rice-a-roni

only food is what's on the table
(unless rice-a-roni was part of the main table food--then i would have said you have to eat some of this and that, and you're only getting this much rice)

all the kids in my generation ate thanksgiving food

and in my daughter's generation

if you didn't like the squash you could have more corn or green bean casserole

if you didn't like the cranberry sauce, have some more fruit salad (walnuts, mandarin oranges, marshmallows, cool whip)

no one ever had special food made for them

[Jenoch]

18. I was a scrawny child until puberty

My mother used to tell a story where all I ate at Thankgiving were radishes. Many years later, I remember a nephew who only wanted baked beans at Thanksgiving. My SIL heated up a can of baked beans.SIL was going to challenge her son. MIL suggested that Thanksgiving was not a good day to give that lesson.

When I was a high school wrestler and cutting weight (only freshman year, thank goodness), I only ate white turkey meat and radishes. The family friend, at who's home we were guests, still mentions my eating at Thanksgiving from time to time. This was years ago. But then again, old people like to tell old stories. That man is a retired OBGYN. My mother got annoyed when my dad introduced him as his personal physician. The Dr. delivered around 11,000 babies.

[My Good Babushka]

19. My kids are 7 and 10

In spite of the enormous spread, they only ate turkey. Kids are weird. Just leave those weird fuckers alone. Especially in your case, they're not your kids, keeping them alive is some other miserable asshole's job.

[Still Blue in PDX]

20. I think it's weird, but I've seen it within my family.

When the toddler little sister started eating the same food as the adults, the older brother and cousin (now 7 years old) started eating the adult food as well. Guess they were finally embarrassed to insist on lunchables or microwaved mac'n'cheese.

[LibertyLover]

21. One of my cousin-in-law's

kids only ate Fruit Loops for her first couple of years. Once in a while she'd eat yogurt or cheese. It wasn't like real food wasn't offered or available either. Than one day she stopped the Loops and started eating normally. Go figure.