as a parent to an food allergy child, there are certian things that do not come into my home, but i eat outside the home and not infront of her. 

but then I hate sweatcorn and cauliflour with a passion, yet i still cook ii for my daughter, as she loves it, because there are so many things that i can't give her, so I have choosen not to deny her the things she enjoys, but there are time that I think, why do I have to cook it, prepare it and then serve it, just to have it sitting there and my duaghter saying I don't want that tonight.

i cant stand yoghury yet my kids love it so thats what they get, cant stand tropical fuits but doesnt stop me from buying it love couscous and so do the kids. actually fish, salad and cous cous is one the kids favourite meals along with sausages and mash, pies and mash/vege and then at least once a week we all try something new like a new stir fry or asian noodles. no harm in trying.

Hi Emmysmum.

In all honesty, All 3 of those factors influenced what I fed my daughter... I was mostly vegetarian; so I didn't cook meat for her. When I stopped being vegetarian, I still wasn't any good at cooking it (& it was generally too expensive anyway) so I didn't bother. Being a sole parent, most of the food I prepared leaned towards the cheap. Oddly enough, now a lot of the vegetarian stuff is very expensive... So I've finally learned to cook meat. Tho I still lean heavily on rice & pasta. I will say tho that my daughter often liked things I didn't. So we could go out for a salad & she'd eat all the things I didn't like (we could share one plate); mushrooms, radishes, pickles, capsicum. So that made for an economical treat!
Parenting is hard enuff w/out putting ourselves thru the wringer, trying to keep up w/ all the latest dietary fashions. When I was a child I was fed on lamb chops every nite & lamb roast on Sundays... the vegetables were all prepackaged, overcooked, tasted of bland soap & disintegrated on contact w/ cutlery... That was cheap at the time. When my daughter was a child she was fed on lentils, potatoes, plain yoghurt, brown rice & bean sprouts... She hated it until she left home; then she rang & asked how to cook lentils b/c she was missing them... Just as I developed a passion for lamb chops when I was in my late 30s (I hated them w/ a passion up until then). Tho I still can't come at overcooked frozen veges. Lets just feed them whatever comes to hand (& try to work in something vaguely healthy once or twice a day). Too many kids & parents end up tied up in knots around food. Less stress makes for happier childhoods!

my children eat anything and everything

they eat anything they want i have no boundries at all

the only things we don't cook is broad beans brussell sprouts thats it yuk

 

answer to part a, i always give my daughter the foods that i love or like to eat and what i don't like to eat. She loves some of the foods i don't like to eat, which is a good thing, and she eats some of the things my partner ( her dad ) don't like either, and both of us adults don't like either, but i still buy it for her. Why should she miss out on something if we don't like to eat it? I'll still cook it or prepare it for her.

b, I always go out of my way to cook something for my partner and daughter if i don't like it. We all like different types of food. i don't mind doing it

c. I always make sure my daughters always got fresh fruit and veggies and meat in the house.

Hope this helps you out.

What dont we buy...

Eggplant
Turnips
Radishes
Squash
We buy all the basic veg broccoli, carrots, peas, corn, spinach things that I eat and enjoy. I wouldn't even know how to cook the other things lol

I didn't buy bananas when they were $20 a kg... that is just too much for me to be able to afford.

I dont buy roasts very often cos I cant be bothered cooking it. And I wont buy potatoes often.

i wonrt buy anything like custard, icecream, yoghurt and flavoured milks because Jaidan cant have dairy. We buy soy milk and their dad brought them a treat of So Good Soy Icecream the other day and they loved that.

I wont buy chocolate, chips, frozen chips, lollies, unhealthy stuff cos if its not in the house we wont eat it.

I myself dont eat any seafood at all, but Koen still eats it, every once in a while ill buy the fish and Daz will cook it for Koen and himself, so Koen still gets to eat what i eat plus more.
i think i would allow Koen to eat pretty much everything( minus the sh*T organs from animals eg. tripe, kidneys, brain, tongue, etc etc)

I dont give Koen lollies either, maybe a chuppa chup once a month if that. Koen loves his peas! just like me, i tried to avoid bananas when the price was sky high, but thats about it,

once when i couldnt be bothered to cook, i went and got maccas and got Koen a Pasta Zoo happy meal, and he wouldn't eat it at all.

xx channy

A) okay so foods i hate and i dont buy .....are onions, chokoe, radishes, eggplant, orange juice or oranges, kidney, lambs fry, tofu

i dont buy yoghurt, icecream, custard, cream as my daughter cant have it so we all dont have, i do buy milk as i like my coffee, i dont like cordial, or soft drink, i dont buy  seafood (but will buy crumbed froan fish instead)...we also dont eat foods with nuts cause of allergies,

B) There isnt alot of food i wont cook.... i dont like the cakes in a box...id rather bake from scratch... and i hate the frozen meals

c) red meat i cant be bothered paying the price for esp when the kids wont eat it........and i wont pay the price for organics...... bananas had to come back down to $3 kilo for me to buy them again.....i hate the cost of dried fruits, and fresh juices, 

i think thats it.....and good question

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I can just tell you what i dont give bubba cause i dont want him to have it or just cant stomach it myself ,,

brussel sprouts, choko , liver , kidneys .cooked cabbage ,

soft drinks , now not even ribena , just water

fish but thats all so far in the seafood department the smell makes me throw up .

other than that i give him what we eat and also fruit , bananas grapes mango peaches cooked apple ,and he dosent mind all the other vegies , loves mashed potato and carrot .

To break it down.  Foods I don't feed my child because:

a) well, I try to get her used to things even if it's something I don't like because I'm raising her to enjoy food for what it is. I don't like cabbage, but gave it to her in her first year to get her to like it.  I still don't like it, but I put up with the taste for her to have it.

b) I'm a vegetarian.  I won't cook meat.  Having said that though, she has red meat at daycare and I do buy her tuna because she loves it and I don't need to have anything to do with it other taking it out of the tin and putting it in a bowl for her.  Also, she loves salmon and avocado sushi which I buy for her each fortnight so she's not denied meat, I just won't buy it except in tuna form.

c) ok I've seen some fruits and veges that are a rediculous price.  I don't like us to try something I've never seen before if it'll cost us an arm and a leg, but bananas and avocados are a favourite in our house and I still buy them when they are expensive. Just not as often as when they're cheap.  I tend to go shopping twice a week, at different places, and buy what's on special that week.  I go to the markets and buy the organic stuff which doesn't cost any extra but doesn't have pesticides etc on it. So if an eggplant was to cost $11 I would leave it there and come back when it's cheaper, we can live without it for a while.

Hope that answers your question.

theres only a few thing that i want aloud ny kids  and there are thoses  sports drinks ,coiral,musial bars, coffee and tea  two of theses can reunion there teeth  if they are given to much  and not clean probly and that means flossing after eating musial bars . i myself want cook cornsilver side as  the smell mades  me feel sick  other wise they can have what they like .

one rule in the house is  breakfast fast or junk food though the day 

there are only two things that my son won't eat unless someone else cooks it for him because the smell makes me sick... Seafood and mushrooms other then that I will give him every thing even if I don't like it....

hmmmm.............. well I am probably one of those parents. There are certain things in my house that I absolutely refuse to cook because i don't like them...for example liver. The hubby loves it but he can go out and buy it if he wants it. I know it's good for you but the stuff groses me out (sorry liver lovers).  I think there are alot of things that I don't cook not because I can't be bothered but I am still learning how to cook meals that don't come out of a box. I try to buy as many veggies and fruit that will not go bad in my fridge. My little one loves bananas and apples and cut up cucumber and tomatoes and I try hard to feed her things like that instead of crackers even. I am still in the learning process of all of the nutrition and healthy meals and stuff. I was a bachelorette for a long time and for the first year and a bit my hubby was always on the road so I only had to fend for myself. All a big learning process.

However there are things I refuse to by (other than some treats for lunches for my hubby).  In my grocery cart You won't see pop chips chocolate or things that I consider to not have alot of nutritional value. I think that having those things at our constant fingertips can be tempting. I just go to the store once in a while and get it if I have the munchies.

 

hehe i absolutly will never buy cut up or go in the same isle at the shops as capsicum, the smell just drives me nuts!!!... concequently if logan knows somone has capsicum even on pizza (fav food) that he's forced to eat (not by me poor thing) then he makes like hes gonna barf....lol... also fruitcake cant stand that either but logan likes that one because it's cake...:)'s for a cool question.

I don't like certain types of food, but I try to get my daughter to eat them anyways. I don't mind cooking anything, as long as someone will eat it. I will pay any amount for healthy food, I think it is worth it.

Im pretty lucky, my kids eat most thing i dont, most thing hubby doesnt and almost all the thing we DO eat, however i have to admit there are things i havent introduced to them like squash, choko, and some meat products like liver and such, but they havent been getting as much vegies lately...as my freezer decided to die  but i try to make up for it with fruit

honesly ....yes we buy plenty of fruit and vegies but i have to admit that there are certain vegies i dont buy.....just a few because, i would have say all of us won't eat them....so the younger ones are not being introduced to them....bad bad

I try to feed my daughter everything, including things i HATE like onions and green peppers and mushrooms. I guess I propably should feed her more cooked things, but my diet consists of mostly raw foods, because I'm a horrible cook. Wouldn't it be nice if a nice meal of meat and veggies cost less than a frozen pizza? LOL