MD, just had a bit of a google and Peters of kensington has them for $27!!!! Gorgeous mirror finish stainless steel and they are 14cm long. I measured mine and they are 18cm so not a heck of a lot smaller, but they would be a bit daintier? I am seriously thinking about ordering them.

MP great to see you hun. I love Rick Stein and would love to have gone to Bannisters while we were there too but I don't think it's the kind of place I would take our kids to LOL.

ROFL Clare at the 'dinner bells' now that is a girl who knows which side her bread is buttered

Oz, Alister is a grazer, he will eat constantly throughout the day and come tea time he eats bugger all because he is already full. The only way he will eat potato is in hot chips and the other night he actually ate all his tea because it was chicken schnitzel and chips and two cherry tomatoes we had a full salad with ours but all he eats is tomatoes. He will eat pasta though, always guaranteed an empty plate if we are having a pasta dish. Maybe just try giving him mostly the stuff you know he will eat all of and add a little bit of new/less favourite stuff on the side? If you lead by example and eat well yourself, then your kids eventually follow. Maybe you can try having an assortment of stuff cut up in a lunchbox and leave it in the fridge or somewhere he can easily access it and just let him pick at it through the day.

I find fussy eaters are created by 1 the parents eating poorly themselves - we have good friends whose kids live on crap because Dad wont eat vegies either and they have learnt that if Dad isn't eating it, he isn't going to force us to eat it either and 2 because the child's tantrums for particular foods have always been indulged. If you put a plate of food in front of them and they point blank refuse to eat it, that's fine, but dont' indulge the tantrum to give them something else. Erin wouldn't eat potato either, and would carry on like a pork chop if you tried to make her eat it, so we just kept putting it on her plate but stopped trying to make her eat it and one day we realised that the spud had been eaten as well