Kid Friendly

[Mato]

What are some kid friendly meals and snacks you know? I consider myself a picky eater and lately I've found myself preferring kids’ meals over the fancier adult meals.

[Feral007]

Maybe you are like one of my sons when he was little. He liked everything we liked. He just didn't like it mixed together.

[Peas'n'Kews]

Kids meals like "Beano Pie"??

this is baked beans with some fried onion and bacon (optional, both of them) and a dash of Worcestershire sauce.

Then cover with cheesy mashed potatoes and bake in the oven until brown.

YUMMY!

[Patchninja]

My grandsons love food like roast dinners, pasta with meat balls or chicken cubes served with home-made pesto and pasta, ham, cucumber disks, carrot sticks and sweets!

[Alison]

I don't really understand this concept of adult and kids meals, when we all lived at home with my parents my mum just cooked one meal and we all ate it, the kids just ate a bit less of it. I work with somebody who insists you have to cook an entirely separate menu for his son and then moans about the work - keep telling him he's mad but according to him, children just won't eat the same things (when did that happen?) and his son only appears to like rubbish food and wouldn't touch anything that involves cutting things up - he's about 8 or 9 for goodness sake, it's not exactly like he's weaning!

[taff]

I don't really understand this concept of adult and kids meals, when we all lived at home with my parents my mum just cooked one meal and we all ate it, the kids just ate a bit less of it.

same as....

[veggiechicken]

+ 1 here too. Kids meals make me think of turkey twizzlers and such like junk food. I wouldn't insult a child by feeding them that!
Sorry Mato, if you just mean plain cooking rather than fancy tarted up stuff that's fine

[chris]

As above, our kids (from 6 months old) have eaten exactly what we eat, just smaller portions. Sod messing around cooking different meals for them and us!

[Bren In Pots]

My grandsons love food like roast dinners, pasta with meat balls or chicken cubes served with home-made pesto and pasta, ham, cucumber disks, carrot sticks and sweets!

Our youngest grandson the same he didn't like chips until he was 5 or 6 year old and as for pizza at 10 he still doesn't like it, but give him a meat and veg dinner and he's happy.

[Pa Snips]

I'm another who doesn't get the concept. When I was a kid the whole family sat down together and all ate the same things, albeit in different quantities based on age.

[VirginVegGrower]

I don't really understand this concept of adult and kids meals, when we all lived at home with my parents my mum just cooked one meal and we all ate it, the kids just ate a bit less of it. I work with somebody who insists you have to cook an entirely separate menu for his son and then moans about the work - keep telling him he's mad but according to him, children just won't eat the same things (when did that happen?) and his son only appears to like rubbish food and wouldn't touch anything that involves cutting things up - he's about 8 or 9 for goodness sake, it's not exactly like he's weaning!

I agree. Our two eat what we eat and always have. You'd be surprised how many have visited here over the years and have asked for fish fingers, hot dogs, pizza or beef burgers. The classics were I don't have pasta sauce on my pasta, I like it on the side." "I don't eat vegetables with roast dinner and I don't like gravy." "I'm not having organic meat, I don't have that at home. I like frozen ones." "I don't make my own pizzas. We have box ones."
Our only issue at the moment is in having switched from chicken to Quorn, but that's another story.

[Patchninja]

I don't see the point in being dogmatic about it. All kids are different. My daughter doesn't eat meat, whereas my son does. I think what matters is that they eat WELL.

[Seahorse]

Like most people above, our kids eat what we eat. We're both fair cooks and can do a good range of exotic cuisines and fancy meals. However, I do understand the attraction of 'comfort food'. On a cold, wet day in winter, sausage & mash can taste like the most fabulous tea ever.

[Andromeda]

Growing up, we generally ate what my parents ate. The only time my mother would prepare a separate meal for me (or majorly adapt what everyone else was having) was if the planned meal had cheese in it (I'm allergic so it's pretty obvious that she'd change it). The only other option was that no-one in the house ever had a meal that contained it.

I also agree with seahorse, sausage and mash (or shepards pie) on a lousy, miserable day is ambrosia for the taste buds!

[Mato]

I also ate what my parents ate and I imagine my son will eat what I eat. I am a picky eater by myself, though. I think you're right Feral, I like most things, just not mixed together. My mum used to scowl at me when I wouldn't eat her scalloped potatoes with cheese. Yuck!