I have a 10yr old who dislikes all meats, and most veggies dinner is madness any ideas?

I have older children who like to eat all kinds of foods it is becoming a nightmare. I can not make different meals I work all day and the kids are hungry when I get home so I need to make one meal quick not many. Any ideas?

When someone is starving, they will eat about anything. Until your 10 year old gets a job, they should eat what you make for every kid at your house. I don't believe in the mom having to please someone who doesn't bring home the Bacon.
Your child will get hungry eventually, and you will see that he/she will learn to like it.

Start teaching the 10 yr old to cook. I started at about her age. Even if she's making mac-n-cheese, fried eggs or grilled cheese.

Easy Corn Chowder Soup 鈥?1 can each of White Corn, Yellow Corn and Creamed Corn, including the water from the can. Cut up celery add to the pot.

To vegetarian refried beans add mild green sauce. Add cheese if desired. Make Spanish Rice 鈥?Far East and/or Rice-a-Roni makes it in a box, just add tomatoes. Fry corn tortillas and serve like a tostada 鈥?add lettuce, tomatoes, cheese to the top.

MorningStar Farms bacon for BLT and MorningStar Farms Sausages (not breakfast sausages, those are horrible) for breakfast. Add cut up MorningStar Sausages and fried potatoes to Eggbeaters and wrap in a warm tortilla.

Boca Italian Sausage for Speghetti or cut up on homemade veggie pizza.

Winter Solstice Vegetarian Chicken Noodle Soup

6 cups of pure water
戮 cup Vegetarian Chicken Soup Base
6 organic celery stalks, chopped
1 陆 cups sweet onion
6 carrots, chopped finely
1 package organic noodles (rice, corn or barley)
1 package of Quorn Tenders (or use leftover Quorn Turkey Roast cut up)

Saut茅 Tenders lightly in olive oil. Heat water, add soup base, stirring gently. Add vegetables, noodles (consider breaking them into 1-2 inch pieces) and Quorn Tenders.

California rolls:
Raw or Toasted Sushi Nori (sold in sheets)
Rice, prepared
Avocado, slice
Sushi Ginger

You can also add sliced mushrooms, carrots, celery and cucumbers. Roll ingredients in Nori, slice. Serve with Ginger, Edamame and Miso soup.

Get your child to do some cooking and he/she may start tasting what they have made. I use to make meat loaf when my children were little and grate the vegetables in the meat loaf (made sure they weren't hanging around), they would have tomato sauce/ketchup on it, then I would serve vegies on the side as well, I got to eat vegies one way or the other. Maybe no eating in between meals, (only fruit) like lollies/candy.cake,icecream, junk food etc.Don't have take aways very often only as once a week or every 2 weeks. Put healthy snacks in their lunch box. Kids will eat when they are hungry, make sure it is good food.

Why in the world would you make different meals. Your ten year old should have worked through the picky eater stage but obviously did not have to if you are willing to allow it to be a nightmare. He/she can eat what is before him.

You need to put your foot down - the child has to eat (within reason) what you guys are eating ok? Put simple foods on the plate -

Pasta is good but I cannot think of any meal with no meat and vegetables!

hes/shes 10 soon s/he will be a teenager so let em no ur there mother u want them to grow up healthy so though u understand its not there favort food, this is the health meal u made for there dinner and this is what there going to eat. he might be upset but he needs to be health even if thats not what s/he thinks is most importion right now.

...don't force the kid to eat animals.

Encourage them not to.

And vegetarianism definitely doesn't have to be difficult for the person making the meals.

If your other kids "eat all kinds of food," try making the meals mostly vegetarian.

Much easier for you, and most likely easier on your wallet.

Also, couldn't the older kids pitch in with getting dinner on the table?

If YOU are the cook, you need to be MOM. "Oh Well" was correct. Who is "in charge". Parents who are over indulgent actually do their children a disservice and sends the wrong message to others.

Your 10 yo., is a member of a "family". And part of his/her education that falls to parents is how to work well with others and eschew a sense of "entitlement" in social situations.

In a word, s/he needs to eat what is "on the menu". You are not running a restaurant. Nor should you destroy yourself in accommodating this little tyrant.

It is pathetic to see other air-headed commentators espouse a dysfunctional parenting model that will most certainly screw their kid up in the "real world" later on.

"BE MOM" ...

I dont have any kids, but maybe if you involve them in the cooking/preparation process that might encourage him/her. I have a picky younger brother who is the same. When I ask him to help me make food he usually enjoys it.

Also, try cooking and presenting the food in a fun way. I know your a busy mum but taking a few extra moments on preparation or presentation could really help. Eg. make it look like a regular burger and fries but make it with imitation meats, vegie patties, or falafel.

Have you tried disguising the vegies. Sometimes if you cut it up really small or blend it into sauce they wont even know its there.

In the end though, you might just have to put your foot down. (about healthy foods not necessarily meat)


Lotsa luck... Hope this helps.

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just feed them chocolate bars. lol.
I don't know what to tell you about that scenario. all meat, no veggies.... that's tough and beyond my scope. sorry.

I'm 14 and have the same problem except I eat chicken and crab and no Veggies! Ask your 10 yr old to make a list of healthy foods he would like you to get from the grociery store that way they can eat omthing they like but that is healthy. I usually have pizza,soup,maccaronie,plane noodels,sandwitches,and chicken nuggets. I really wish I ate some more things. When u and the rest of your family are having dinner just ask if he/she would like a bite to see if they like it I found a few things I eat that way. But if they say no just say are you sure and then don't push it much more that becomes agravating.

Well Good Luck!!!

It shouldn't be too hard to fit in some meat-free meals in.

Make a chili, just dump a bunch of cans of beans and canned corn, canned tomatoes, spices... and serve with corn bread or rolls. Or pour a chunky bean chili over baked potatoes.

You can buy vegetarian, meat-free crumbles and burger patties that are pretty convincing for the real thing. You can use the meat-free ground crumbles in the place of any ground beef recipe, for instance I sautee it and add mushrooms, onions and mushroom sauce and pour over noodles. You can add it into chili, make burritos and tacos out of it, etc. You can make ground beef and just microwave a packet of the ground beef substitute for the non-meat eater, too, it's packaged in single-serve packets inside the box.

These meat substitutes are in the freezer section of stores (under company names like BOCA or Morningstar).

If you could, purchase a tray or two of tofu and try to make a recipe with tofu. You can bake tofu, bread it and fry it, and do just about anything that you can do with meat to it. I toss it into everything from casserole to stir fry and it's EXTREMELY versatile, it's like the chicken breast of the vegetarian world. Just look up some recipes online and ALSO make sure you look up how to prepare tofu. Here's a link to a previous question about cooking with tofu just in case:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

My husband eats meat and I'm vegan, and because I've had some amazing cookbooks I can make some vegetarian meals that you can't even tell don't have meat in it.

Your kids will only eat what you feed them. If it's not an option, they don't get to eat it. Make your meal and they can pick and choose what they want from that meal. If you don't make anything unhealthy, they can't eat anything unhealthy.

http://www.fatfreevegan.com
http://www.vegcooking.com
http://www.theppk.com
http://www.vegetarianlunchbox.com
http://www.veganlunchbox.com

p.s. kids like choices. Make two vegetables for dinner. Tell them they have to eat at least one, they can choose.

p.p.s. corn is not a vegetable.

....errr.....perhaps he's not hungry enough?........have a doctor look at his taste buds.......