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AS PART OF TheJournal.ie’s weekly Family Magazine, we wanted to create a space for parents to share their views. A place where mums and dads could share their experiences, lessons learned, and even mistakes along the way.
This week, we asked our panel about that reliable conversation topic among parents…
What’s one thing your child just won’t eat?
Here’s what they had to say…
Non-millennial carbs: Clíodhna is a great grubber at 15 months and eats almost everything except potato. She is the true child of millennial parents instead preferring sweet potato, couscous or quinoa!
- Ríona Flood
A lot of things, and it worries me: Ellie Mae is an awful fussy eater. It is a nightmare trying to get her to eat anything. I have even brought her to the health nurse over it. She has her few things that she eats and that’s what she will stick to and won’t eat anything else. She won’t eat cereals of any type, and I have bought her them all in the hope of finding one that she will eat. Eggs, meat, rice, all vegetables except carrots… the list is endless.
I have tried every trick in the book to get her to eat but I can’t forcefeed her. It’s not just at home that she won’t eat, its when we are out and about, visiting and at creche. It is worrying, because at three years of age she should be eating everything.
- Denise Cumiskey
It varies by the day: Thankfully we haven’t yet found one food they all won’t eat and in fact they are all very good eaters, but they can be contrary and what was today’s favourite food can be tomorrow’s least favourite!
- Ross Boxshall
Milk: There are only a handful of things Tymek won’t at least try but drinking milk is the one thing he cannot do. He has it in the porridge no problem, he loves cheese and yoghurts but when he tries to take a sip of milk it immediately comes back.
- Marta Lisiecka
Each to their own: My kids are really good eaters, but they do have their dislikes too. I have always offered them a massive variety of foods since weaning, to encourage a varied and well developed palate. Thankfully they each only have one or two things they flat out will not eat. For Rosie it’s anything from the sea, Rhiannon will not tolerate bacon or any meat with “white bits” (fat), Malachi hates avocado and tomatoes, and Brendan doesn’t like curry. They also share a mutual dislike of chillies. That’s about it really, I’m very lucky they all love to eat abundantly.
- Susannah O’Brien
Any vegetable… that they know about: For all of them, it’s anything that grows out of the ground. A vegetable of any kind gets pushed away. So what we do is we blitz all the veg in a Nutribullet and make sauces for our dinners out of the veg and some water. They get the goodness without the sight of the vegetable.
- Alan Dooley
Anything too cold: We’re sort of still at the point with food that Charlie will gobble something up one day, then turn his nose up the next, then be interested again the day after that! He is overall a good eater and hasn’t outright refused anything (that I can think of) without going back to it. Sometimes turns his nose up at meat (even though he has a full set of teeth) or anything too cold.
- Kait Strickland
Banana… until now: When our son was younger, and starting on solids, he never liked banana. So many recipes say to mash up banana, babies love it etc. But not for our guy. I thought about it, and I really didn’t blame him! Banana, especially mashed up, is a really weird texture. It also has quite a strong taste and smell.
So on and off we’d offer him banana, for a couple of years. As we did baby led weaning, we always just let him choose what to eat or what not to eat. When he was about 2.5 years old, he just started eating them on his own. Now he has one almost every day and loves them – he also loves banana ice cream!
- Olly Keegan
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Heinz ketchup pours quicker from the glass bottle then the plastic one.
Tastes better from the glass one too.
A human head weighs 8 pounds
More importantly, store it in the fridge or the press?
Really I leave mine on the floor next to my chair.
8lbs? Maybe in Brazil. More like 11-12lbs (4.5-5kg) in the rest of the world.
I have a 4 minute walk to work. I literally have no excuse.
A 1 minute drive you mean!
But by Christ you pack in those extra 800 calories in that 4 minute walk
I hate Dublin Bus..
Unbearable some mornings. Especially before the oul caffeine injection.
3 weeks ago i started walking to work. It takes an hour but I’ve already lost a stone in weight
Respect. Well done.
I might ask my boss to give me an extra day off so to make up for them calories.
Are we now paying scientists to tell things we already know???
No if you’d read the article you’d have found out that the UK taxpayers are….
If people are spending a few hours a day commuting…they have to eat…maybe we should have spin bikes at our desks…there has to be a healthy balance but that’s not always possible if you have a work / family life to balance
Or how about cycling to work?
Yep or you could just spray yerself with shite instead
Eh…? Mudguards?
I cycle 10.3 km to work everyday and 10.3 km home. There are a few steepish gradients. It was exhausting to start with but I’m now managing. I’m losing weight. I burn fat, not oil.
Of course, I’m lucky only to have to travel 10.3 km. I know a person who travels 47 km each way by bike.
The point is that either an ordinary bike or an e-bike can provide an exercise option.,
Be careful up on that pedestal you don’t fall off.
It’s not a pedestal; it’s a Trek.
LOL!!!!
Ha! I’ve just read this article after I ate a doughnut at 7am on my commute to work. Definitely need to ask for more days off work!!
Poor commenting fare today…..
Well we’re not allowed to comment on half the articles.
Alan…thats what i was thinking…..its mostly fluff like this article….no solid traveller, race, political or atrocity story to draw out the islamaphobic, racist, homophobic and xenophobic consumers like yours truly…..
There’ll always be an anti-Catholic or pro-abortion story though.
Three weeks since we had a story about Paul Kelly of Console fame. That was well buried.
Very pertinent….and true…
You could just eat a banana on the train instead of prepacked food just because you commute or travel as part of your job doesn’t excuse a bad diet .
That was the most boring journal day EVER……..prousse k only poked me once….to no avail as usual but thats not the point….
Why is the journal printing a Daily Mail article, use your own research and make it relevant to the Irish way of life
Real cutting edge news from the journal,we know all this without scientists having to tell us,wait though,why don’t we just move everyone beside their work place,now that would b great crack altogether. Some of these so called scientists probably never commuted in their life.
Maybe this is the solution: http://homejobs.ie
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