Restaurant food for kids?
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Hi all
What age did you start taking your LO to restaurants and actually feeding them something from the kids menu there?
Toby is 9 months and doing very well with foods - in terms of finger foods and lumps etc.
I am meeting a friend for lunch at either Pizza Express or Carluccio's next week and Carluccio's have a lovely sounding ravioli I think he could manage if I chop it well.
My only concern is of course - the salt content of such restaurant foods.
I know a lot of places now cater in much much healthier ways for kids (i.e. pizza express serve crudites for kids before their main meal comes) but still, would they just cook with a lot of salt as normal?
I am all for "in moderation" but don't want to serve Toby some nice tasty pasta when I could be being an ultra stupid mummy for doing so!
Thanks all xxxxxx
What age did you start taking your LO to restaurants and actually feeding them something from the kids menu there?
Toby is 9 months and doing very well with foods - in terms of finger foods and lumps etc.
I am meeting a friend for lunch at either Pizza Express or Carluccio's next week and Carluccio's have a lovely sounding ravioli I think he could manage if I chop it well.
My only concern is of course - the salt content of such restaurant foods.
I know a lot of places now cater in much much healthier ways for kids (i.e. pizza express serve crudites for kids before their main meal comes) but still, would they just cook with a lot of salt as normal?
I am all for "in moderation" but don't want to serve Toby some nice tasty pasta when I could be being an ultra stupid mummy for doing so!
Thanks all xxxxxx
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not recomended at a curry house though lol x
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Its definitely a one-off but this particular Carluccio's (which we've decided on) is very baby friendly apparantely so I'd quite like to give it a go.
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I am sure 9 months would be fine occasionally!
He's 11 months now and will have restaurant food once a month at most, often some of mine but we went to Bar HaHa a few weeks ago and he had his own plate of grilled chicken with vegetables. I was really impressed by them. The chicken was cooked very simply (no batter or anything) and they included purple sprouting broccoli in the veg which was perfect for finger food. Peter demolished it!
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I agree about 'helping' with the pudding too, they're usually included in kids meals, and he's usually full by pudding so I have to eat it - yum! Haven'y tried Pizza Express (but I have a tomato-hating lo and pizza-hating OH) but I second the recommendation for Bar Ha Ha, probably the best quality kids meal we've had. Places do seem to be getting better at not just offering chicken nuggets and chips now - although if lo sees chips he wants them!
I'm sure Toby'd love it!
I live in wolverhampton and most people have not heard of Pizza Express or any of the others mentioned! I always assume it was something just in london. We only got a subway here fairly recently.
The best kids meal he has had is a Toby Carvery one. Well because it's all you can eat, he didn't have his own meal, he just had a bit of meat off everybody's plate (they give you lots anyway) and they gave us his own plate we could fill up with potatoes, veggies and gravy.
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Pizza Express was fab and he ate all 3 courses (although daddy ate most of the dough balls!)
We tried TGI Fridays and it was rubbish. Fish fingers and chips with salad was the best option and even then he only ate the chips !!
I like M&S cafe for lunch. He gets a lunch bag with sandwich or pizza, low salt chees biscuit/crisps, raisins, chewy sweets (which I never give him and daddy eats) and apple juice for ??3.50.
Suz x
I also supplement whatever she shares of mine with a Babybel or something similar that's just easy to bring along, and I usually take a yoghurt or something too.
As it's only occasional I'm not too worried about salt content.