in expecting my dc to eat brussle sprouts

[pingu2209]

I made up a fantastic (imo) bubble and squeek, but added yesterday's brussle sprouts. They refused to eat any of it.

I am not a restaurant, I only cook once, they eat it or go hungary.

my rule is if i cook something they try it and eat what they can or go hungry. i make them try new things several times over a few years as tastes change. at 8 ds has just started liking olives, cabbage and cheese.
we all like budgie brains/giant bogies sprouts here

Best use for Sprouts ever- the 1972 'Horror' movie - rated PG (dead scary!!) Night of the Lepus - Giant killer rabbits take over a small American town. They use real bunnnies with red paint splashed round their chops hopping around a model town and film them eating 'cabbages' - using sprouts!

I don't understand how some people can say sprouts make them physically sick. Surely vegetables cant do that? Also if you are promoting that idea are you not passing it down to you kids. There a no veg that make me physically sick but I dont like roast parsnips. I will eat them in a stew. I'm sure that's why my neice wont eat most veg as BIL eats meat and carbs only. She's learnt theat veg equals a 'shit moustache' face. I can understand being sick if it's an allergy and I can't stand Lamb of any description as it's too rich but I would never say that to my kids and I will still cook it. I just have to leave the room when they chow down on the fat from a chop, making the excuse that the washing needs hanging up.

I love sprouts, so do my children,

DH only liked them when he got into his twenties and had them cook properly for the first time.

At the age of 37, I turned to my Mom at Christmas, after the ususal:"Just one sprout, go on" and said: "No, I am 35, married, I left home years ago and I have my own toddler - I will not eat sprouts." It felt so good!

Spamm good for you!!! I had the gentle ribbing from my family about the dish of sprouts last Sunday. I am 33, I do not like now, nor have ever liked sprouts.

They used to make me sick as a child when my Mum would try to sneak them into food - mashed into my potato, or chopped up in with my cabbage etc. I've no idea why but as soon as I tasted it I would run to be sick. They're horrible.

I'll gladly cook them for dh though- fried with chestnuts and pancetta.

You force everybody to have one sprout, even if it makes them sick MERLY ? Way to enjoy Christmas dinner.

I refuse to eat cabbage.

I refuse to eat sprouts.

I don't make my children eat things on Christmas day that they don't want to eat.

Yes I will make everyone have a sprout. I never known anyone in our family to die from or be sick from ingesting a sprout. If I was cooking them with panchetta then I would give the vegetarians a pass. But I hate the 'I'm not going to eat this coz it's green' attitude when they've not even tried it. They always come back so I can't be doing too bad. And as it's my BIL, who eats like there is a food shortage and has no manners about waiting (house rule - kids and my dad gets served first), he can fuck off if he has a problem.

Normal rules get suspended with sprouts in my eyes. I eat plenty of green things but they can do one.

Ds nearly two ate a load the other day though. Brave lad.

I love sprouts. They do taste bitter to me, so does coffee, I love that too.

We're having sprouts on the day, with chestnuts and pancetta, and I will cook enough for everyone, knowing full well that not everyone will eat them. Then I get to eat all the left overs.

My LO loves sprouts, broccoili & cauliflower aswell. (Me...I love sprouts too, especially raw)
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I think that there's a fine, delicate line when it comes to cooking sprouts.

My DD definitely doesn't have the sprout hating gene. She is two is will steal eat raw Brussels sprouts from the fridge and eat them.

I think they're okay, but don't love them. I occasionally serve them and DS tries them, but I don't make him finish them. He doesn't like them, but I tell him he might someday so he should keep trying them. :)

CheerfulYank
That's exactly my theory. Just because you tried it once and didn't like it doesn't mean you wont enjoy it 2 months later. I was an extemely fussy eater until I was late teens. Now I'll have a go at most things.
Fully agree with the cooking sprouts thingy. No crosses in the bottom and not putting them on just after breakfast!

I force my DCs to have one sprout each on their Christmas dinner.

they don't gag or anything, they just go at me and grumble a bit. They don't detest them, they just find them a bit pointless.

YABU for serving up bubble and squeak in the first place - disgusting stuff!

I love sprouts but I would never make someone eat something they hate - thats not a nice way to learn to enjoy food!

I have tried and tried and tried to like sprouts.

I love almost all veg, including cabbage, and am most definitely not a fussy eater.

I have tried preparing sprouts lots of different ways (with garlic, with bacon and chestnuts, in bubble and squeak, etc.) but regardless of how I cook them, they still taste revoltingly bitter - a horrid, strong, nasty flavour that hangs around in your mouth for ages. Unlike anything else I have tasted except maybe endive.

When I read that there was a gene that means sprouts only taste horribly bitter to some people, it made a lot of sense! I couldn't imagine anybody actualy finding that particular taste pleasant.

So yes, YABU to make children eat sprouts if they hate them. Because the chances are they find the taste truly abhorrent.