Thread: Children's Meals

Originally Posted by Nawty

Originally Posted by jandajoy

For foks sake sake get a grip and cook your kid healthy meals at home you lazy bastard. You don't have a kitchen ?

Here here...I was gunna say this, but asteemed or however it is spelt...collegue said it first....so what he said x 2.

Jeez..... this certainly like flogging a dead horse. Once again, NO I don't have a kitchen and, for just for Mr. Nawty, I have said already that all children are different, which doesn't mean "wrong" or fussy in their eating habits or tastes in food.

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

Lazy coont

yup.

Originally Posted by Artisan

Once again, NO I don't have a kitchen

so buy a burner, it doesnt require much room.

Originally Posted by kingwilly

Have you only just thought of that?

A plate of french fries is hardly a great meal for your daughter. All the other food you've mentioned is meant to be shared.

Willy, hi again. Firstly I was being polite yet I am starting to think that "politeness" isn't a feature held by some people around here. Secondly, think more about this "sharing". I agree with you immensely but I have a Thai family; the oldest being my mother-in law who is at least 127 yrs old, but insists that she is only 47 years old and has been for the last 17 years (my continuous time living in Thailand) and the youngest being 4 years old; 2 years younger than my daughter. How can the children "share" the same food as the much much older Thai members of the family. Can you imagine the old Thai lady, and others, getting their betel-stained toothless gums into a plate of spaghetti bolognaise or fish fingers and chips? Of course not!

And to my friends who continue to insist on being excessively pious, I'm impressed that you enjoy cooking regularly for your families and I'm pleased that your childen enjoy the best home-cooking. Keep it up but please don't forget my previous point about children being "different" everywhere.

With regard to "French fries", I agree that they are not a great meal and I never said that my daughter eats them. My reference was that second-time-around meals are not necessarily tasty and may even be dangerous indeed. Please read and "digest" (feable joke) before posting a reply. Thank you all.

You live in Jontiam there must be loads ? a 5 min google came up with these places that have childrens menus,to name a few.

Fatties
Hard Rock
Sizzlers
Sure park
Captains corner
La Mer
Veranda
Paradise resort
Fresh house

Not to mention the many hotels offering 50% off childrens meals & buffets.

Originally Posted by Nawty

Also, many thai dishes are only small anyway and they are cheap...so what is the problem.

We have a 4yo and a 7yo and never have a problem eating out.

Here we go again! I never said that I had a problem. Please, please read my original posting. Thank you. My point was that child sized portions are not a feature of restaurants in Thailand even restaurants that claim to be "family friendly".

So buy a doggy bag....sheesh

Originally Posted by Jack meoff

You live in Jontiam there must be loads ? a 5 min google came up with these places that have childrens menus,to name a few.

Fatties
Hard Rock
Sizzlers
Sure park
Captains corner
La Mer
Veranda
Paradise resort
Fresh house

Not to mention the many hotels offering 50% off childrens meals & buffets.

I wouldn't give "Fatties" and "Sizzlers" the time of day! The others, including the Ambassador City Hotel (not mentioned above) grant 50% reduction on meals and free beds for 2 -12 year olds as part of their guest packages and not as casual diners or visitors.

How many years have you lived here?
Maybee you should of started the thread with where can you get a child size meal in a place that, I would give the time of day.

Art I except yours, but I am thinking about the kid. You need a cooker and a fridge at least. Think about the kid first and foremost. My wifes mom lives with us as well. We have her the wife and maid plus my twin daughters. I am the only man.

I cook for the kids and so I know what they are eating and how much of it. We all eat together but not the same food. We have eaten at 6:30pm as a family since the kids got into high chairs at 9 months. How can a kid grow up on nam plick, leaves, dried fish, and white rice?

Not fancy food but well done. A simple meatloaf with mash and onion gravy. Fresh broccoli, with a cheese sauce is an easy meal to cook.

Staying at home and not having to eat the school food has resulted in my kids putting on weight and growing every summer for years.

Originally Posted by aging one

Art I except yours, but I am thinking about the kid. You need a cooker and a fridge at least. Think about the kid first and foremost. My wifes mom lives with us as well. We have her the wife and maid plus my twin daughters. I am the only man.

I cook for the kids and so I know what they are eating and how much of it. We all eat together but not the same food. We have eaten at 6:30pm as a family since the kids got into high chairs at 9 months. How can a kid grow up on nam plick, leaves, dried fish, and white rice?

Not fancy food but well done. A simple meatloaf with mash and onion gravy. Fresh broccoli, with a cheese sauce is an easy meal to cook.

Staying at home and not having to eat the school food has resulted in my kids putting on weight and growing every summer for years.

Hi Aging One,

Your menu for the family sounds "aroy mak mak" but my own daughter has an eating aversion to anything green! ........whether it be cookies, candies or vegetables, especially vegetables!

My daughter does eat her school food, except those twigs and leaves that you mentioned, and she is the tallest girl in Primary 1 in her school. I guess that her food likes will broaden and mature in time but my wife and I don't push or cajole her into eating something that she doesn't like. Give her time, she's like many children of her age. As I've tried to enlighten some other subscribers to the topic, it's not a problem. Thanks anyway.

Regards.

Why don't you have a kitchen?

Should have a kitchen....even poor isaan farmers have a kitchen.

Poor child growing up kitchenless.

Never had a problem eating out with the kids (3 and 5). Noodles come in big and small bowls. A lot of places will do you a small portion even if it isn't on their menu. I don't mind finishing off whatever they don't eat anyway.

Like others said, with kids of that age you need to get a place with a kitchen.

Originally Posted by Nawty

Should have a kitchen....even poor isaan farmers have a kitchen.

Poor child growing up kitchenless.

Wow, we have drifted off course with regard to my original posting, haven't we? Nevertheless, my sincere appreciation to all of those subscribers who are anxious about my daughter's well-being and health. Let me assure you all that she is a normal and very robust six-year old.

Patsycat asked why don't I have a kitchen? NickA insists that, because of my daughter's age, "I need to get a kitchen". What's all that to do with the lack of child-sized portions when eating out?

Anyway, let me tell you all the facts of life, especially Nawty. Like those Isaan farmers and my daughter (naturally, because she is my direct offspring) I am poor also, very poor. We live in a small condo, as many of our friends do, and the condo isn't big enough to support a kitchen and I cannot afford to move somewhere else. Those poor Isaan farmers do have cooking areas outside (they have many rai of land to grow their rice) or under their stilt-supported homes. A condo doesn't come with land and it's certainly not on stilts! Of course, Patsycat won't know that because she is from Geneva.

So to reiterate my original posting, why can't restaurants in Thailand get their minds around providing children's-size portions. I asked for suggestions and a couple of you have provided feasible ones. As for getting a kitchen, please leave that. Thank you.

If you are so poor.....why are you eating out all the time ?

If you had a kitchen, you could save money cooking yourself and cook child size portions also.....

Originally Posted by Artisan

Your menu for the family sounds "aroy mak mak" but my own daughter has an eating aversion to anything green! ........whether it be cookies, candies or vegetables, especially vegetables!

I wonder why ....?

Originally Posted by Nawty

If you are so poor.....why are you eating out all the time ?

If you had a kitchen, you could save money cooking yourself and cook child size portions also.....

Frigging Hell...........what does it take for you guys to get the message. Am I taking to some brick wall somewhere? WE DON"T HAVE A KITCHEN so there's no alternative but to eat out. Anyway, sometimes eating out is cheaper than cooking and eating at home.

Originally Posted by Artisan

so there's no alternative but to eat out.

there is always an alternative.

Originally Posted by Artisan

Anyway, sometimes eating out is cheaper than cooking and eating at home.

cheaper perhaps, but not healthier.

Originally Posted by Nawty

If you are so poor.....why are you eating out all the time ?

If you had a kitchen, you could save money cooking yourself and cook child size portions also.....

Just needs something to whine and bitch about.

Originally Posted by kingwilly

Originally Posted by Artisan

Your menu for the family sounds "aroy mak mak" but my own daughter has an eating aversion to anything green! ........whether it be cookies, candies or vegetables, especially vegetables!

I wonder why ....?

I wonder........ could it possibly be that she's only 6 years old? (6 next month actually). When was the last time you saw a young child tucking in to Brussels sprouts, string beans, cabbage, lettuce etc?

Originally Posted by Artisan

When was the last time you saw a young child tucking in to Brussels sprouts, string beans, cabbage, lettuce etc?

my son eats what he is told to.

this includes greens.

but given a choice I am sure he would only eat sausages, sweets and icecream.

Originally Posted by kingwilly

Originally Posted by Artisan

so there's no alternative but to eat out.

there is always an alternative.

You seem to know everything Willy, what's an alternative to eating out if we don't have a kitchen? Are you suggesting that we buy take-aways outside and return home to eat them there?

Originally Posted by Artisan

When was the last time you saw a young child tucking in to Brussels sprouts, string beans, cabbage, lettuce etc?

Last night.

My lad at 19 months old already realises that his parents are the bosses, not him. It's just a question of getting used to the tastes of new foods; takes about 2 servings in my experience.

Of course, at 6 years old you've probably missed the boat. Better luck next time.

Originally Posted by Artisan

what's an alternative to eating out if we don't have a kitchen?

you've already been told. get a fuckin burner.

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