SC - Kids and feasts

[William Seibert]

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I am actually pretty stunned at reading the stories of other people's
childrens feasts.  I really don't think it would even occur to anyone in
Lochac to serve the sorts of food people are listing; hotdogs,
hamburgers, macaroni cheese, chicken strips.<<<<<<SNIP>>>>>>
I think that childrens feasts here would maybe contain simpler more
recognisable foods, such as roast and cold meats, cheeses, boiled
eggs, meatballs, salads, bread, vegetables, fresh fruit, jam tarts, but
nothing really out of period. 

*****jam tarts are somewhat out of period from previous discussion on
our list....jam is a 17th (?) century phenomenon, at least post sugar
fettish************************

<<<<SNIP>>>>>

I find it especially interesting in light of other conversations on this
list regarding ingredient listing for feasts and taking into account
allergies; frankfurts/hotdogs have heaps of red food colouring in them
for example, which can be horrific for some kids systems.  And how
would you list all their ingredients for the feast?  

I am sorry if I sound really horrified, condemning or snooty, but I am
honestly just stunned more than anything else. 

Kiriel
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I had similar thoughts of children needing to eat the same food.....untiI
had close friends with small children.  The they do tend to be fussy
eaters and become unhappy and underfed when faced with 'odd'
things.  

We play this game and have set it up for OUR entertainment.  To present
a feast of foods for the children's tastes takes little effort and just a
small amount of putting our intensity toward authenticity in our pockets.
I don't think I know ANY parents (for what value anecdotal evidence
can carry) who would demand children eat only what the parents
decide they should eat and when they should eat it.  If the child can be
enticed into our world throught their own familiarities....we have won
the war (amen brother Tsun Tsu.....contested ground and all).

I fed children recognizable foods at our feast with only small incursions
into modernist foods.
*meatballs (could be miniature hamburgers)
*fried chicken fingers

*smoked sausages made up to look like mice using cloves and
pepperonis for eyes, tails and ears  RAT ON A STICK

*fruits
*fried breaded vegetables
*bread
*pasta w/ cheese sauce  (macaroni would be a small concession here)
*cookies that the children helped cutout and bake earlier in the day

I really believe that We need to make efforts to accomodate our children
however we can as they need to know that learning can be fun....
THEIR kind of fun..... until they grow older to appreciate the more mature
values of our semi-culture.  At then same time.....challenge them (based
on their developmental abilities) to experience more of what we do.



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