To not feed my dc shit, just because the kid from school won't eat it?!?

[pinkclouds]

ARRRGGGHH!!! I spent the day thinking what will this child eat? So I opted for mince and Potatoes (Not a vegetarian) fairly safe option I thought.
The friend wouldn't even try it, not only that he couldn't even use a knife and fork at 7 years!!
WTF. My DC are told to least try something before dismissing it.Maybe it's me.

oooh, i like the sound of that too, QS.

My father is probably spinning in his grave. Curry powder in savoury mince.

(Seriously, hmmmmm, that sounds interesting actually. I am now really craving mince and potatoes, and I haven't thought of it in a long time.)

(re this thread, the one thing i ever refused to eat at a pal's house was mince and potatoes. HER MUM JUST COOKED IT AND SERVED IT. no elaborate cooling and re-heating for flavour. i couldnae believe it! and it was fucking disgusting. she was from hamilton.)

Bet you did not say "erm, Mrs From Hamilton", I only eat reheated mince, you know, can I come back tomorrow?"

i couldn't get out of there fast enough. it was GREY.

haha.

Oh god I went somewhere for tea once and they served up mushrooms on toast. I'll retype that....

MUSH ROOMS ON TOAST.

Mushrooms.

lolololol. i like mushrooms, but that is weird.

i went to someone's house and they BOILED THEIR MUSHROOMS. that is a flavour-free button m experience.

I always ask children what they want for dinner when they come to my house, i have had Suasages, Curry, Chips, Sandwiches... all sorts. :)

Mince and tatties are my least favourite childhood meal, I would have preferred liver as a child.

My children don't even know what it is, but I know they wouldn't eat it.

I always ask what the invited child likes to eat - not presume they eat shit because they don't eat what we like.

I like mushrooms now, but at the time I was going through a phase of "not eating squeaky food"

It was absolute torture. I looked at the mushrooms; the mushrooms looked at me, the bread got soggier and soggier.

Oh! The HUMANITY!

Mushrooms on toast is quite normal! Loads of people eat that! But I would never offer it to a visiting kid!

My sister once was extremely cheeky/rude (as only teenagers can be) to our mum across the dinner table - mum took exception to this and, reaching over, dunked DSis's face in her mince. Took years before DSis could eat mince again!

As far as OP goes, I usually just ask what sorts of things the kids will eat and then try to do that. And I always warn other parents about DD's foibles (eg do not ever, on pain of death, mix together the sauce with the pasta/rice!)

Eh? I like mushrooms on toast

lol caurnie. can you imagine your mum's aibu? howls of disapproval.

children are programmed not to like mushrooms, apparently, because we aren't supposed to eat slimy food as it's clearly going off.

and not weird to eat mushrooms on toast (with accompanying splash of lea and perrins, yum) but weird to serve to a kid for tea.

Yes Aitch. I would eat mushrooms on toast now (well, actually I wouldn't because it's missing something - like MEAT of some description) but as a 7 year old I was just...

big steak mushies grilled with l&p on toast do imo taste very much like meat, actually.

i know a few veggies who like hully just hated meat from a young young age. they had an horrific time in the 70s.

ha. by which i mean 'taste very much of meat' = 'worth eating'

no Aitch. Mushrooms, no matter how enormous, cannot taste of meat, because they are...mushrooms.

I have a friend who is veggie and not out of any real ideological reasons but because she just thinks it tastes vile.

grey mince and boiled mushrooms

I used to retch if I was served a raw tomato as a cild, I can eat them now, but not when I was a child. I wasn't a very fussy child, imho!

I think there was. Anyone else remember toast toppers? Now they were unutterably vile!

Toast-toppers looked like actual vomit in a jar.

"Wasn't there a variety of tinned mushroom, replete in its own slime, that you could heat up and bung on toast?"

Heinz Toasty Toppers?

My children like mushrooms raw in salad.

But in a cooked meal they pick them out.

yes they really did. and were all the more glamourous for us never being allowed to have them. we had a small can of tuna packed out with cucumber and carrot... between six. (ahem, much as i now do for my own lot).

dd1 has always hated raw toms and kiwis. no big deal, until a friend persuaded her (while on a visit, har har) to try kiwi and her face broke out in a rash. seems like she was sensitive the whole time. she briefly was sensitive to toms as well but grew out of it.