to not give DS fishfingers?

[MiniMarmite]

My (lovely) friend keeps asking me if I have given DS (10 months) fishfingers yet.

I don't really plan to give them to him TBH as we don't eat them ourselves (don't really like the texture of frozen fish so I don't buy frozen fish in any form and try to avoid cod as far as possible for sustainability reasons).

She thinks that even if we don't eat them he should be familiar with them in case he goes to someone's house for tea and is given them to eat. So far I've said that he eats well and doubt he would refuse to eat one if given to him. She also says that they are a good standby to have in the freezer. True.

I don't object to fishfingers and as such wouldn't object if he were given one at someone's house etc.

I guess I'm just wondering of I am being a snob! We cook most of our food from scratch but then I give him shop bought falafel from time to time to save time on busy days so maybe I've got a double standard here.

Also, I was given ff's a lot as a child and remember hating that.

Not one of life's big questions I know but I expect that my friend thinks I am being a bit weird about this!

he will surely die.

oops, meant 'can't find any pictures of the new cap'n BE'

Will start calling friend Capt with immediate effect!

Beast, I will check on him every two hours tonight just to make sure he's ok!

Hmmm... last week the dc had pasta pesto for crap-Friday-dinner and I had the fishfingers and chips I had planned (dd's choice. She does normally love fishfingers).

I love fishfingers. Youngs are the best.

Lol you lost me a bit Marmite! So if you bought fresh fish from the fish counter and froze it and then defrosted and cooked it, you wouldn't like the texture or did you just mean the fillets of fish you buy frozen already from the supermarkets.

DD has just had fish fingers and beans inspired by this thread. And I accidentally cooked too many ff so had to have a sandwich to use them up. Damn.

We had fishfinger sandwiches for tea today. I like mine in a pitta with fresh leaves, lemon, tomato, red onion and a little mayonnnaise, salt and pepper and a glass of cold white wine.

Ds2 had his with ketchup.

Guadalupe that is tres poncy! I had mine on tiger bread with a splodge of ketchup

I know, but once you try it you can never return.

love fishfinger sarnies.

My mum is the same tho, she was quite shocked that DD age 15 months hadn't had them yet! I think eating your first ff is a v. important Rite of Passage...

and the ponciness of a poncy fishfinger sandwich is somehow negated by the presence of the fishfinger, no?

Good point

Nappyaddict - both but if I cooked it in a sauce then and then froze it then it would be ok because the sauce would keep it moist (OMG I can't believe I am admitting these foibles).

Do I win the ponceypants medal now?

What if you have falafel AND fishfingers in pitta...instantly unponcified as Guadalupe suggests?

see i don't like freezing cooked fish to reheat at a later date because like you i think it loses the moisture but how does uncooked fish lose moisture through freezing it?

hee hee, not sure because I don't think I have ever done it

Again, I think I am thinking of frozen plaice fillets that my Mum used to overcook from frozen. Put me off for life!

I think I am going to need frozen fish therapy.

your friend's being a bit odd to force the issue. Your no-ff-eating must irritate her for some reason.

Perhaps it was the overcooking that dried them out rather than the fact they were frozen. Just a thought

OK as your frozen fish therapist your first challenge is to buy and cook some of those skinless/boneless frozen fillets of haddock or whatever sort of fish you eat. Asda have got an offer on at the moment - 2 bags for £5.

I would imagine she is maybe being a bit sensitive about her own choices and perhaps thinks that you are somehow implying that fishfingers are in the cateory of sausage rolls and fruitshoots, thereby insulting her?

Or she's mad, either way. I wish my youngest would eat fishfingers, I'd have a freezer full of them!

We buy salmon fishfingers. DD eats the breadcrumbs, DS eats the fish. Full-time working mum so needs must!

never mind needs must, fish fingers are delicious.

poss a bit salty for a 10 month old though, but there's plenty of time.

Nappyaddict - Yes, I'm thinking it was most definitely the overcooking! I will give it a go (frozen fish, not overcooking)

Pointydog - maybe I'm being a bit unfair to her - I've only seen her a couple of times in the past 6 months as we live a long way from one another but she has mentioned it both times! She just gets rather enthusiastic about things sometimes but maybe it does irritate her that I still have time to cook (I'm at home with one dc while she works and has 2 dcs).

It's just been playing on my mind a bit as I don't want her to feel I'm judging the way she is doing things (because I am not).

I think I have a bit too much time on my hands to be worrying about such trivia!

such a funny thread. I knew what that picture was going to be pagwatch but clicked anyway, so funny.

I have to say though my kids love FF and we eat them ALOT. I find them the lesser of many other evils. Good way to get oily fish into them as well if you buy the salmon ones.

OMG MN suggests Formula feeders should be eaten.

Ah sorry ff = fish fingers, glad we cleared that up.

As you were

I can't cook. Thank God for fish fingers, tinned ravioli, sausage and beans etc.
My toddler doesn't know what a real oven is for. If the meal preparation doesn't end after 3 minutes with the ping of the microwave then she is disturbed.
To the OP, my nearly eleven month old hasn't had fish fingers yet but she lives almost entirely from jars.
I'm surely headed straight to Hell! ;)