To keep making this dinner

[Soitis83]

So, once a week I'll make a pasta and the sauce I make by myself. I roast loads of veg and blitz it in the blender with coconut milk. My two year old loves it, I love it and my husband loves it. Problem is, my 4 year old (who used to devour the whole plate) has now decided he hates it and refuses to eat it the last two times I've made it. Do I stop making it as it makes dinner time so stressful, or do I carry on making it as everyone else enjoys it and it's healthy? Making two separate dinners is just not an option as I also have a 3 month old and cooking dinner is hard enough as it is!

Ok, I'm catching up on the thread and some of you sound fussier than the 4 year old 🤣
I think your sauce sounds lush OP, I'll come round and have his portion if it's going spare 😁

This is my favourite comment. 🤣🤣🤣

Yes, I'm not a massive coconut fan but I honestly don't think you can taste it in cooking.
We use it a lot with a vegan in the family and also a milk allergy sufferer (me) - usually use it in curries and smoothies though.
Never thought of putting it in pasta sauce! ❤️
Perfectly normal to put it in bakes and dishes.

Give him the pasta plus chicken, some sweetcorn out of a tin ( or cooked frozen sweetcorn) with mayo stirred through. Maybe a little portion of your tomato sauce with a little pasta on the side and/ or maybe a bit of salad.

There's not much spam in that.

The dish also works perfectly with tofu! Come on over!

Funnily enough, I was just about to catch a flight to Italy to let them know that coconut milk goes in pasta. Glad you warned me

What’s the creamy sausage bake? Sausages are always hit in our house & it sounds interesting!
my DD is gluten free so we have to adapt most meals slightly so anything we can all eat with no adaptations is a winner for me 🤣

holycowvegan.net/cheesy-vegan-breakfast-potato-casserole/

This is the closest link I can find to my recipe, it's almost exactly the same as what I do so just change to normal sausages and tweak as you wish! I do everything at the top of my head.

I feel for you OP!

I wouldn’t call my kids fussy exactly but sometimes they drive me potty. One’s decided they hate cucumbers and the other carrots. So when I’m quickly making sandwiches to go I have to remember one filling with cucumbers and the other with carrots otherwise they won’t eat them if mixed. These are kids who used to devour both vegetables when younger!

I used to make a lovely meal of mashed potatoes, sausages and green lentils. Not mixed and they’d eat them nicely, suddenly one doesn’t like the lentils. I’ve tried changing lentils to chickpeas and one loves them but the other doesn’t 😓

For a snack one likes a whole apple, the other it has to be sliced… just eat your bloody apples!

Breathe…

Coming back to your recipe OP, I love it and am going to try it this weekend. In a rut about recipes currently so will give this a try.

As a PP suggested, give your kid pasta without the sauce and a bit on the side. They might change their mind at some point x

This definitely. No fuss. It will all be forgotten soon enough.

It may be that he's beginning to react to the coconut milk, the garlic or the red peppers.

Mine hated cleaning his teeth. Then we found out he was actually now full on allergic to toothpaste 😱. His going off the sauce could be something to keep an eye on. Grated cheese on plain pasta should be fine.

Just make it for you all
chikd can have fish fingers

you could leave his pasta plain, maybe grate a little bit of cheese on top or something.

Well it clearly is because OP is making it.

Do a rough chop with all of the veggies etc and take part out of that before you completely blend it with the coconut milk. Serve that to the side with plain pasta for him and sprinkle some cheese on his pasta. Don't get in the habit of being a restaurant. You will never be able to go back if you make everyone separate meals.

Was going to ask for the recipe too! This sounds absolutely delish! Will give it a go!

Just do him pasta and cheese

Well, if one person doesn't like it that's their problem.

An answer is to give them an Iceland meal. Apologies to other retail outlets, I'm sure u can offer similar.
Plenty of meals, pasta or bakes which can be micro waved in 10 mins.

Well, if one person doesn't like it that's their problem.

An answer is to give them an Iceland meal. Apologies to other retail outlets, I'm sure u can offer similar.
Plenty of meals, pasta or bakes which can be micro waved in 10 mins.

Are you serious! Are you allowing a CHILD to influence your parental authority and decisions??? Get real,
lady.

Are you serious! Are you allowing a CHILD to influence your parental authority and decisions??? Get real,
lady.

Are you serious! Are you allowing a CHILD to influence your parental authority and decisions??? Get real,
lady.

😂😂😂

@Soitis83 Siphon off some roast veg before blitzing

Give 4 year old plain pasta and the veg.

put small amount of sauce on the edge of the plate/in a separate bowl