Why don't restaurants sell smaller portions of proper food for kids?
The Wizard
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Nearly everywhere I go to eat out the only options open to me when I ask for the kids menu is the usual nuggets, burgers, hot dogs, fish fingers, pizza etc. The only option is chips or sometimes mash, no baby potatoes or salad and it's beans or peas. Even in some good restaurants where I've known the food to be excellent their kids menu is the same usual junk food with chips and beans. My 3 year old hates chips and would much prefer to eat a small portion of lasagne with some garlic bread or salad and new potatoes or a nice mild home made curry and rice or a cottage pie but sadly they never do these things on kids menus.
Why can't places just sell smaller portions of proper healthy food for children instead of always having this junk food alternative? I end up having to buy my toddler a full adults meal of which he will probably only eat half of it just so I can give him a decent healthy meal or something that doesn't consist of processed reconstituted junk.
Why can't places just sell smaller portions of proper healthy food for children instead of always having this junk food alternative? I end up having to buy my toddler a full adults meal of which he will probably only eat half of it just so I can give him a decent healthy meal or something that doesn't consist of processed reconstituted junk.
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I don't have children, but don't think it's strange to feed a 3 year old any of those things. I'd make the curry on the mild side though!
ETA: I'm confused now, what do you think 3 year olds should be eating?
My youngest, who's 2, won't eat potato in any form so we always struggle when out as it's chips with everything. She is very much a pasta, rice, noodles girl, very much like her dad. She also likes things with lots of flavour, not just bland beige food. She usually ends up with macaroni cheese or pizza or has a bit of what we are having.
Don't get me wrong, my kids do eat junk food at home sometimes but they both prefer proper dinners.
Seemed to work quite well, but I think the complexity and down turn in the pub industry killed that
As I was writing it I had visions of a 3 year old in an indian restaurant asking for a lamb tikka bhuna with pilau rice and a poppadom.
Probably just my warped mind that thought it was strange!
The two nearest gastropubs to where I live serve kids' sized portions of the same food that is on the regular menu. No turkey dinosaurs in sight.
What do you think young children in India eat?
But yes, young children should be able to have smaller portions of what their parents are eating.
He he.