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Do your kids like mushrooms?

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AtleastitsnotMonday · 04/02/2020 20:48

Everyday I eat dinner with the kids at school. I dread to think of the number of mushrooms that I see picked out of various dishes and thrown in the bin! They seem to pop up regularly in all sorts of dishes but even the kids with the most extensive pallets will pick them out. Is this universal?! I know a lot of people pulverise veg or at least chop them v tiny but I’m thinking about mushrooms that are still recognisable. Thinking about it, I never ate them as a kid but do now as an adult but I wouldn’t count them as favourite.
For what’s it’s worth I’ve mentioned it to the kitchen staff but they keep putting them in.

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CigarsofthePharoahs · 04/02/2020 20:51

No, mine can't stand them.
I threaten to make them eat mushrooms if they're being awful.

TorysSuckRevokeArticle50 · 04/02/2020 20:51

DD 5Yo loves them, regularly has mushrooms on toast for lunch or tea.

Ahitsallover · 04/02/2020 20:52

Mine can't stand them and I can't think of any of their friends that like them either

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hellypad · 04/02/2020 20:52

DD1 loves them, DD2 not so much, I however hate them with a passion.

newdawntoday · 04/02/2020 20:52

One loves them, one isn't a fan.

happypotamus · 04/02/2020 20:52

Yes, they both like them (ages 5 and 8)

Goostacean · 04/02/2020 20:53

Toddler (just turned 2) loves them. Picks them out of pasta and isn’t keen on the pasta itself! Recently had to be reminded he likes them as we’d not had them for a while and he’d clearly forgotten about their existence.

TheChosenTwo · 04/02/2020 20:53

One doesn’t mind them occasionally on a ‘home from holiday’ fried breakfast. The other 2 don’t like them at all.

Deadringer · 04/02/2020 20:54

My Ds loves mushrooms but my 4 girls all hate them. Not mad about them myself, squidgy little fuckers.

BikeRunSki · 04/02/2020 20:54

DS hates them
DD loves them raw, will happily knock back a punnet. She does not like them cooked.
I love them raw and cooked.

Whathappenedtothelego · 04/02/2020 20:54

My 12 yo loves them (and always has).
My 8 yo doesn't really like them, but (as of fairly recently) will eat them cut up small and mixed in a sauce.

OhSoOuting · 04/02/2020 20:54

I hate them. DH hates them. DS doesn’t actively hate them but doesn’t particularly love them either. They’re pretty much the only food he won’t eat with gusto.

stoplickingthetelly · 04/02/2020 20:55

Both of mine are fine with them. Ds in particular really likes them.

managedmis · 04/02/2020 20:56

Nope

Trahira · 04/02/2020 20:56

Mine like them.

Sunshineand · 04/02/2020 20:57

No, of course not. Kids don't like mushrooms. It's the texture and look.

I bloody love them, although I wouldn't try them properly until I was about 21. Even now, sometimes the way they look puts me off. Like a slug on the plate.

My 17 year old eats pretty much anything and I've not been able to convince him to eat mushrooms yet.

Marmite27 · 04/02/2020 20:57

No we were out for dinner recently, DD1 was eyeing up FiL’s garlic mushroom starter. He gave her a couple and she ate the breadcrumbs and returned the mushrooms with a ‘thank you Grandpa, but I don’t like the middle bit’ Grin

Sunshineand · 04/02/2020 20:58

Tell a lie, DC2 will eat them raw but won't entertain them cooked.

Sunshineand · 04/02/2020 20:58

Marmite Grin

homemadecommunistrussia · 04/02/2020 20:59

No, mushrooms are gross.
Weirdly, dh loves them. Hmm (he has redeeming features Wink)

WatcherintheRye · 04/02/2020 21:02

Ds (15) has relatively recently (last 18m or so) come round to eating mushrooms again after being completely put off after witnessing part of an episode of 'Midsomer Murders' involving poisonous mushrooms when he was about 10!

Sunshineand · 04/02/2020 21:02

homemadecommunistrussia have you never had creamy garlic mushrooms? 🤤

Gingaaarghpussy · 04/02/2020 21:08

Neither of my boys like mushrooms, while I will happily cut several raw mushrooms up and dunk them in salad cream or make myself a mushroom sandwich.

cinnamonbun · 04/02/2020 21:10

Both my girls (7&2) love them, the 7 year old eats them raw

Toomanycats99 · 04/02/2020 21:10

My 2 love mushrooms as do I. There are very few vegetables I actively enjoy and they are one of them.

They are lovely roasted with baby plum tomatoes with a spot of butter!