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PipDais 
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 Posted: 24 January 2013 at 10:58am |
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I'm always surprised by the amount of salt added to food for children so I wouldn't add salt to child menus including chips. Let parents decide if their kids can eat salt.
My daughter (22 months) loves fish pie, cottage pie and pasta. She also enjoys little sandwiches (no salad) with cheese, tuna mayo, soft cheese etc). Savoury muffins are always a winner (courgette goes down well). Mini fish and chips with baked beans? Scrambled egg or beans on toast? Boiled eggs and soldiers?
Child food should be child priced - completely agree with that - especially when a lot ends up on the floor. A lot of 'child friendly' cafes in Wellington don't have enough high chairs so get lots of them - it REALLY annoys me when there is one high chair!
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Hibiscus
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Posted: 01 February 2013 at 6:11pm |
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An option that excludes icing, sprinkles, honey, jam and any other sweets. For us a meal excludes all of those things. I will let my children have such things as a treat, but they need and want to fill up on proper food for their main meal. However if the sweeties come on the same plate as the healthy options, all is lost. I rather order my children a dessert course once they have finished their lunch. Sometimes we only go to a cafe for a treat not for eating and then sweets are fine, but more often we actually go to a cafe out of the necessecity to eat and than it has to be real food.
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Posted: 01 February 2013 at 6:17pm |
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I bought mince on toast for my kids in a cafe the other day (from the adults menue as there was none for kids) and while it could have been fab it was way too salty for children. I agree with anything mini for a low price as there is always the risk a child won't touch it, and it enables the parents to just go and get another option.
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Posted: 01 February 2013 at 6:24pm |
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I went to an old school toddler birthday party and was utterly appauled by the food that was on offer: chips, iced biscuits, lollies, sausage rolls, heavily iced cupcakes with lots of lollies stuck to it. The drink was fizzy drink and for a game they had pass the parcel with hard (the choking kind) lollies in each layer. I have to correct myself: I was't so much appauled by what was on offer but more by what was lacking of: water to drink, fresh cut up fruit and vege, crackers, perhaps pretzels or so. so simple.
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Kid friendly menu for a cafe - suggestions?
