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.

My sis said she watched with horror as her MIL (a notoriously diabolical cook) tipped a packet of barely defrosted mince into a casserole dish, topped it up with water, threw in an oxo cube, and some fried onions from a tub, and bunged it in the oven...

I used to have Mince and Tatties (Scottish dad) when I was a child.
I still blame that meal, and the fact I wasn't allowed to leave the table until i'd finished it, for me being a vegetarian for 15years.

Mince n tatties is the food of Kings! Good quality steak mince cooked with onion, carrot and turnip served with creamy mash. Fan bloody tastic. I'm assuming those who think mince is vile have never eaten lasagne or bolognaise either. Having said that I would always go with pizza or pasta with a visiting child.

This thread has just reminded me of going to a friends for dinner a few years ago and she flung some frozen mince in a pot, cooked it for about 10 minutes then added a can of macaroni cheese. Even the memory of that is making me heave.

See, that's kind of like a pasta bake.

A pasta bake they eat in hell

Megatron - that is truly awful. They obviously didn't like you.

What kind of a person serves that to ANYONE, least of all guests?

when I say mince is vile, I mean mince of the mince and tatties variety. Eurgh.

Mince cooked in some other way is absolutely fine with me. We love a bit of lasagne in this house.

Do you suppose it tastes like lasagne when the layers get a bit mixed up and all the bechamel sauce runs into the meat bit? Or does it just taste like shite?

I think it probably just tastes of actual shit.

I mean, TINNED MACARONI CHEESE.

I have spent many a minute looking at all the strange canned stuff available in supermarkets (Tinned Spag Bol, tinned fry ups? ) but have never been moved enough to actually buy any of it.

Those tinned potatoes we used to get in school dinners were bad enough, they tasted of metal.

Heinz tinned spag bol is passable if you are drunk/starving/lazy and the Heinz ravioli is positively delicious in a takes-you-back-to-your-childhood kind of way. But plain old tinned spaghetti hoops in (what is loosely referred to as) tomato sauce is the most boaktastic thing to ever EVER see the inside of a tin. I cannot stomach even a teaspoon of the stuff.

I wasn't including Heinz Ravioli in that, because Heinz Ravioli is absolutely delicious and I like having that on toast with some cheese on the top.

tinned spag hoops are the ONLY thing I have ever tasted that I disliked.

What about home made pizza so the child could have chosen his own topping?

Mince and potatoes does seem a bit odd...just that? No veg?

i LOVE tinned spag bol on brown buttered toast. oh lor'. haven't had that in yonks.

Ok look, you know the chicken skin thread? That's me with mince. Whenever I cook it for chilli, spag bol etc I always eat half of it as I'm browning. I could eat a whole pack with no other additions at all, onion, sauce, nowt, just plain cooked mince. Mmmmmmmmm.

When I was a child we were only allowed frozen pizza when we had friends round for dinner - so I used to invite children from school round as many nights as possible, even ones I didn't really like, just to get pizza!

I've read your post RockBird, but it does not compute.

Are you saying that you eat raw mince? Because raw mince smells of periods.

Shirley - bleurgh!

Sweaty small children smell like mince.

Mists andMellow - did you never ask her what she thought of the tv recipe?

Bleugh to plain mince with nothing added, now that would be grim.

I love spaghetti hoops on toast, with grated cheese on top. Yum.

DH loves tinned macaroni cheese, he eats it cold straight out of the tin. Now that is disgusting!

I hasten to add that we don't eat these things very often!

Oh ffs Shirley, did you have to make me throw up over my sleeping dd??

after it's browned you dimwit, what kind of fool would eat raw mince, period smelling or not??

And there was me feeling sorry for you because of your food-dysfunctional childhood :o

sorry everyone, but I really do think that mince smells of the sanitary bins in dirty toilets.

So, you eat brown mince. That's normal, totally normal.

God Aitch, you know me so well.

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