Cauliflower cheese

[CauliflowerCheeseMeal]

DD (aged 7) wanted just a bowl of cauliflower cheese for tea tonight. She’s had sausage, mash and peas at school for lunch so has a lighter evening meal. I offered sandwiches, crumpets, crackers and beans with toast/bread she insisted she wanted the left over cauliflower cheese from yesterdays roast dinner.

It feels weird to me to have that for tea, but I think I might be UR? She had it warm (microwave). It was basically cauliflower in a cheddar cheese sauce topped with mozzarella and breadcrumbs – I made the sauce myself so know there’s nothing bad in it.

She’s eaten the lot. But I still feel weird about it. Tell me I’m UR and overthinking it

Love cauliflower cheese and often make it - tasty and healthy

Probably in my top 5 weirdest threads I've read on here of all time. It's a hell of a lot more nutritious than offering her crackers or crumpets.

Yummy! Cauliflower cheese 🧀, wonderful food. My sister wakes the best cauliflower cheese ever.
Your daughter is a sensible girl.

Over thinking and we all know what cauliflower cheese is!

Some parents would give anything for their child to eat cauliflower never mind choose it!

damn you I want cauliflower cheese too now.

grrrrr

Perfectly good meal. I was uninspired for tea tonight and now decided to have cauliflower cheese. Thanks

Cauliflower cheese was one of my childhood dinners and I'm still surprised when I see it as one of the veg on a roast dinner. It's a lovely meal in it's own right.

One of my favorites. Actually I’m making broccoli cheese this evening with a big chunk of blacksticks blue cheese that’s lurking in my fridge. I am even more excited about it after reading this thread

Mine have two hot meals a day on a school day (probably have a sandwich for lunch at weekend and hot meal for dinner). Am I in the minority? This isn’t the first time I’ve heard people mention that if DC have a hot meal at school they just have a sandwich/snack for tea?

I'm sorry I'm lost here.

Why is it odd to have 2 cooked meals in a day? Its not untypical.

Why is it odd to eat left overs? Frankly you should encourage it!

Whats the actual point of this thread? I don't get it.

Whats unreasonable about eating relatively healthy left over vegetarian meals for dinner???

@Iamnotminterested

YANBU, cauliflower cheese, or cauliflower and broccoli cheese is one of my favourites, in fact I want it for tea today but have already sorted tea. The more mature the cheese the better, yum, and the best thing is none of mine really go for it so it's generally all mine.

The cheddar in the sauce was a 4 maturity, mozzarella was on top.

Bless her, I'd be glad that she asked for something sensible like that. .

I could really go for some cauliflower cheese now... bit of mustard in the cheese sauce, nice grilled topping... It's nice with broccoli florets in it too. Plain steamed fish for me tonight. I'm very grateful to the fish but now I feel just a little bit bereft...

This is a very odd thing not to have confidence about. More the sort of question I’d expect from a childless person doing emergency childcare - and even then, I don’t think they’d ask 🤣
How have you got to 7 years in without dealing with stuff like this before?!

We are having cauli cheese tonight, can't wait

My dc are 24 and 22 and still won't eat cauliflower, so you are onto a winner if you ask me.

Only last week we had cauliflower cheese left over from a roast meal and I had it for lunch the following day. I thoroughly enjoyed it, too. Your daughter is getting veg and protein through eating this, what's not to like?

Thanks for the inspiration! Kids having Mac n cheese with veg I don’t fancy the pasta so made extra veg and having them in my cheese sauce!!

Made my mouth water... I think this sounds like quite a good evening meal.

Another strange thread.

Personally I think it's weirder that you serve cauliflower cheese on a roast dinner but I know that I seem to ge in the minority on mumsnet

Hear hear. I'm having cauliflower cheese for my tea tonight and do so regularly. Just cauliflower cheese on its own.

I would never have it with a roast or with Christmas dinner, which seems to be the norm on MN. It's far too filling and would clash with the gravy.

I used to make cauli cheese as a main course for friends when I was a vegetarian student. (I was going to call these gatherings "dinner parties" but that was probably pushing it ) I used to serve with some kind of additional carb such as crusty bread, or brown rice. Definitely a meal in itself.

I’m envious. My family don’t like cauli cheese so I don’t often get to have it.

YABVU, because I now fancy cauliflower cheese for dinner, with a jacket potato, and I don't have any cauliflower.

Cauliflower cheese is a perfectly good meal imo.

There'll be a cauliflower shortage at this rate!!

Bloody love cauliflower cheese. For a quick easy meal not as good as homemade but I buy it in a bag from Iceland, 20 mins in the oven, whack it in a bowl, bloody lovely 😍

I really don't understand this @CauliflowerCheeseMeal :)

DH and I (grown adults) have cauliflower cheese as a main meal (supper at 7pm) at least once a fortnight.

Sometimes I will do a jacket spud with it or top with grilled bacon, but otherwise it's a main meal.

I don't understand people going to all the effort of making a cheese sauce etc and making CC as a side dish with a roast. To me that's completely OTT.