The theme of this blog is how to make food fun for kids so they will eat dinner without any whinging.
We have just experienced one of the best fun family dinners in a long time. There was not one single complaint or whinge and the kids weren’t the least bit interested in leaving the table at any time during the meal.
This week Brie Boy turned 6 and we celebrated his birthday at our local teppanyaki restaurant. Teppanyaki is a Japanese style of BBQ cooking and you are seated around a central hotplate where you watch the chef cook your dinner in front of you. The chefs also entertain you whilst cooking by juggling the salt and pepper shaker, singing, jokes and throwing food.
It was loads of fun and very entertaining. It was also a very noisy dinner with lots of laughter, shouting and clapping not like a regular dinner at home so this lent to the experience and atmosphere.
The highlights were catching eggs in bowls, catching fried scrambled egg with our mouths only and catching lots of bowls in each other with the last bowl full of fried rice. Brie Boy loved catching the eggs and my father took the record of 11 bowls.
With all the fun and frivolity happening both Brie Boy and Baby Bell were so entertained that they ate everything on their plate without fuss or even thinking about. Baby Bell was memorised with the antics that I fed her bits here and there and without realising she ate all her vegetables including the dreaded cabbage.
The restaurant also provided the children with chopsticks that had the elastic bands around them which made it easy to pick up their food so it also made it a fun way of eating.
If you are scared off by Japanese food, a teppanyaki menu is very different and is like a bbq with your choice of various seafoods, cuts of beef, chicken and fresh vegetables cooked in soy or teriyaki sauce. Fried rice is also cooked on the hotplate.
Take your kids to your nearby teppanyaki restaurant and let me know how much fun you had and how well your kids ate.
Now if only I could convince the teppanyaki chef to come and cook for us every night, dinner would be a breeze!
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came to your site via remarkablogger, love your 10-word intro!
teppanyaki is great. we make it at home a lot, using a big electric griddle. it’s a huge family favourite, and a great way for people to eat what they like.
Isabella
I haven’t thought about making teppanyaki at home - what a great idea. Will have to try it with the kids soon. Do you throw eggs and bowls as well?
Thanks for the feedback on my 10 word proposition on what my blog is about, “I help mums avoid the dinner battle”, maybe I should incorporate it into my ‘about’ intro.