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

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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.

I've been craving haggis this week. Haggis and mash and swede and sprouts and gravy.

bobblemeat blanket

the very thought makes me blanch

lol at bobblemeat.

sounds like there's a career as lady gaga's seamstress there for the taking, duchesse.

wow totally baffled at all the people who thing mince and tatties weird or vile! Was a staple meal as i was growing up along with stews casseroles and other home cooked meals. Still common in our house now and ds loves it. Still i do remember the excitement of trips to friends houses and getting chips pizza or chicken nuggets as it was seen as a real treat

"What is wrong with serving a visiting child home made pizza, home made burgers and wedges, chicken drumsticks or chicken tortillas?"

Nothing, but personally I wouldn't bother with home made pizza, or home burgers when Waitrose can do it perfectly well for me and at no nutritional disadvantage.

Oh those meaty horrors.

Chops
Braising steak
Lamb
Thin brown unidentifiable stuff
Spam fritters

The joy of growing up and discovering pasta and lentils.

Yes, it's not actually that different, ingredient-wise, from some forms of casserole, except that the meat is minced rather than diced. If it's made properly, that is.

Are you a vegetarian now hully?

Tube meat. What the jeff was that? We only ever got it at school, I wonder if there was a TubeMeat factory which only supplied the LEA

Casserole - the very word strikes terror into the heart.

"crafting healthy chicken nuggets"

Since Jamie Oliver, you'd be hard pressed to find unhealthy shop purchased chicken nuggets. Gone are the days of mechanically recovered meat. It is 100% breast meat these days.

A purist would argue they contain more fat than home-made nuggets, but fat is not the devil's work and should be reflected in childrens diets (although not to excess)

Yars.

No more foul disgusting mashed up bits of animal on my plate.

I absolutely couldn't give a flying fuck about other people eating the disgusting stuff.

What is wrong with braising steak? I defy you to dislike my beef casserole with lovely jacket potatoes and savoy cabbage.

What on earth do you eat if you won't eat mince, lamb, chops? You must be veggie?

Morloth is there no egg in meatballs? How do you get the mince and flour in your meatballs to "stick" without egg?

People are very poncey about food. We get beautiful fresh venison from our gamekeeper neighbour. He shoots deer because they eat crops and young trees and there are simply too many of them here. They died quickly (he's good) and have lived a very natural and unstressed life. The meat is low-fat and high in iron. It is delicious in a slow-cook casserole with things like red wine, juniper berries, orange zest and garlic. But some of my friends have the vapours about it. 'It's so cruel!'

No it's not. The animal is dead in seconds, having been nibbling crops just before. No abattoir. No live transportation.

The worst thing about braising steak was that it contaminated everything else on the plate with it's nasty gravy and spreading tendencies. At least with chop type dinners you could eat the other stuff and just kind of cut the pig up a bit and shuffle it about.

i make suggestions to parents of "strange" children (ie children who have not visited before)to see what they would eat, then cook that. have never yet had a refusal of sausage and mash

regular children get what my kids eat. tonight dd1 has a friend (the regular kind!)over, all dc will eat crispy chicken wings, onion rings, potato wedges (homemade ) and salady bits. pudding is fruit salad and chocolate brownie (also homemade, double )

do you eat with your dc when they have guests? i dump it on the table and run back to the kitchen for more wine

we had braising steak last night in a casserole. twas v g if i say so myself :)

Yum. I love adding pearl barley to casseroles, so you get all the juices seeping through the grains. Mmm. Love mushrooms, too, but have to take them out of the children's portions.

I think there are some people who know from a very early age that they are vegetarian. I have one friend who has not eaten meat since she was 3. That's the only reason I asked. D'you want to see a picture of the bobblemeat blanket? I think my son is being unfair.

BTW, my post about venison wasn't aimed at anyone here--just thinking about a couple of friends in RL>

Yes! Show us the blanket.

And I think you're right, I never liked animal, and I don't like em being killed either. Dd is the same, whereas ds and dh stuff huge hunks of bleeding flesh down their necks at every opportunity while me and dd nibble our delicious tofu.

I had a veggie friend of my dds round for tea last night. She didn't like the veggie burgers I gave her and dd- she asked if she could have some ham instead PMSL.

I had a friend of dd's over the other day and was about to serve a delicious and fragant veg and tofu curry when ds stopped me in horror and told me that normal people didn't eat our kind of food and I'd have to find something else. He was right too. She had a banana!