Fishifingers

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Can someone tell me why fishifingers are often vilified as part of children's diets but not a fishcake or other breaded fish? Or are they all and I just miss that? Aibu to think a fishifinger is the same as a fish and any other breaded cod fillet?

Cheapest Tesco ones

My boyfriend has taught our 3-yr-old to eat cheesy fishy fingers. He grills them, then melts cheese on top as they're almost done.
Has to be Bird's Eye cod ones, he says - and definitely NOT the omega 3 ones!

We occasionally also have fishy legs from the fishy shop (i.e. battered cod from the fish&chip shop - legs are bigger than fingers, so it makes sense that fishies have legs, right? )

I'm just grateful that the 3-yr-old will eat something with protein in!

I see your fish finger sandwich and raise you a fish finger TOASTIE
I’ve just had a microwaved quiche toastie, I recommend it for nights you’re out of fishifingers

I’ve never forgotten my health visitor telling me I needed to slather butter on fish fingers for my 6month old dd as she was small! She’s now 21 and still small, and has still never had butter slathered on fish fingers😀

@TinselAndKnickers

Shallow fry in lurpak until two minutes before they're done

Place onto bread
Add lots of grated cheese + a squiggle of sauce of your choice
Toast for two minutes
Add a spoonful of beans on the side
Serve with an ice cold can of Pepsi

Ooooh you gorgeous fucker you! My diet for the next 5 weeks is sorted

I think I'm about to start on a new educational culinary journey. Fish finger sandwiches. . . they sound sodding gorgeous!

you learn to turn even the most basic food into gourmet cuisine at university

OMG! Don’t you just love it when a thread makes you hungry, and you remember that you have an unopened box of 30 in the freezer?! AND emergency mayo rations —thank you Gousto—

The thing with most toddlers is not all of them fancy a fillet of salmon or whatever. So it's fishifingers or no fish at all.

I think it's because fish don't actually have fingers, but do eat cake. So people are naturally wary of fish fingers, but perfectly fine with fish cakes.

We have fish finger sandwiches on the menu plan for tomorrow night, everyone loves it when that appears.

Ooo Aldi bloomer, fish fingers, a bit of rocket and tartare sauce 🥰

Lozzz No! Not cold!!! You need the hot crispyness oozing into the melting buttery mayo ketchupiness!! You do!! Oh, and so sorry Usually, hope you've got somewhere fishifinger- friendly by now

But if you give toddlers a small piece of fish fillet rather than a fish finger, there really is no reason why they wouldn't eat it, or at least try it. I'm not talking about putting a whole fish in front of them including head and tail.

DS had dairy allergy when he was a toddler. He hated his special milk, so we tried all sorts of recipes of getting his milk into him. One of his favourite meals was a piece of fish in a milky sauce, with added fake cheese and orange juice. We would eat the same meal (but with proper milk and cheese, the non-dairy versions were rank!) He probably had that meal more often than he did fish fingers.

At his Primary School they always had fish on Fridays. When fish fingers were on the menu most children ate them, but the weeks they had fish in some other format, very few children would eat them. DS was always happy as he could have seconds, or even thirds.

@ineedaholidaynow toddlers aren't really known for their logic and reasoning. All I can tell you is I have presented mine with fish and fish fingers and he likes what he likes. Seems he's not the only one.

I wonder how many people will be having fishifingers for dinner tomorrow!

I know we will be

But if you give toddlers a small piece of fish fillet rather than a fish finger, there really is no reason why they wouldn't eat it, or at least try it. I'm not talking about putting a whole fish in front of them including head and tail.

Hahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!

But if you give toddlers a small piece of fish fillet rather than a fish finger, there really is no reason why they wouldn't eat it, or at least try it. I'm not talking about putting a whole fish in front of them including head and tail.

When my DD was weaning, my DP and I ordered whitebait. DP doesn't like the heads, so she discarded them, and DD hoovered them up with great delight. She's also disturbed DP greatly by eating (with every sign of enjoyment) the eyes out of baked trout.

The point isn't what toddlers will or won't eat. The point is that fish fingers are 1) easy and 2) tasty.

I love a whole baked fish as much as the next disgusting fish-eye-eating toddler, but realistically, I am in no hurry to prepare it at 11.40 on a weekday morning, when DD needs to be in nursery in 20 minutes and has been fannying about pretending she's a monkey who can't let go of mummy's neck for a second.

Maybe presenting fish complete with eyes is the way forward then Sarah

But in all fairness poaching a small fish fillet in some milk (which you can do in a microwave) takes very little more effort and less time than cooking fish fingers. And you can get cheap frozen fish fillets. So when you are trying new foods when weaning, it is one to try and you can flake some up with things like peas/sweet corn. Obviously not all kids are going to like it, and there is no logic like a toddler logic.

But when chatting to parents when DS was at Primary School and the topic of Fish Friday came up, many parents would say that the only fish they had tried with their children were fish fingers, and they were saying school shouldn’t offer anything else . As an island nation surrounded by fish, it seems odd.

Fishifingers (copyrights) with beans and chips
was known in our house as ‘orange tea’ !
It was all the same colour and we loved it!

Fishifingers and chickeninuggets are kept in our freezer. Surprisingly it is not the 12 and 8 year olds who eat them most often, it is the 18 and 16 year olds as there are a smaller number of foods they like compared with the two youngest. E.g. when we have mince they have a choice of nuggets or flingers (as ds1, 18 years old, calls fish fingers.)

I love a fishifinger sandiwich, made with white bread, butter and tomato ketchup. The fishifingers need put on the bread still warm so the butter melts slightly, but not hot enough to make the bread get too soggy and fall apart. I also sometimes like a few baked beans in there too. (But I used to eat Smash sandwiches, even better with some garden peas thrown in too.)

I have never admitted to using fishifingers on MN before as MN always seemed so anti them.

We also use beefiburgers, hottidogs in hottidog buns, crispyipancakes etc. For the PP who reminisced about Findus crispy pancakes, they are still around. Now Crosse and Blackwell crispy pancakes, but we can get them from Tesco and Asda.

And if chickeninuggets are bad, then why are Birdseye ones stamped all over with 'Approved by Mumsnet'?

I have, for a change, recently made a meal plan for the next two weeks, I am now off to change it to include at least two fishifinger and two chickeninugget meals, maybe throw in a beefiburger and a hottidog meal for a change too. Stuff the chicken, pork, fish (fillets) and roast meals I have planned for, I want fishifingers!

Fish microwaved in milk has given me the willies! sorry ineedaholidaynow
I think grilling or baking fishifingers is a lot healthier than zapping them or any fish in a microwave ?

I make my own fish fingers. They are delicious and I will argue with anyone who says they are childish.

I have "fishifishifingers fishifishifingers" playing in my head, I have no idea where it's from, but it has a tune, must be an old 89s tv add or something 😂

LOVE fishifishifinger sandwiches with tartare sauce or salad cream

I love it when people throw out that they are 'offcuts' or dodgy bits (applies to sausages etc as well).

I always reply "Good, best to use the whole animal up". Grind it all up, mix in a bit of flour and salt and I will chug it down no worries.

Obviously not that keen on artificial additives and shit, but the actually yucky bits of meat? They stop being yucky!