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Quorn...what do you do with it?

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Baddz · 01/08/2015 20:57

I need to get ds2 (6) eating more protein. He refuses meat of all kinds.
So I figure quorn would be good as its TVT.
What do you make with it?
Does it taste of much?
Is it easy to cook with?
Thanks!

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dancemom · 03/08/2015 17:46

Could you try and make tuna fish cakes that are 80% mash and 20% tuna?

Or spag Bol but made with lentils instead of mince?

Bubble and squeak?

PolterGoose · 03/08/2015 17:50

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chocolatechip123 · 03/08/2015 17:52

You can make sausage rolls with quorn bangers and even encase tbe frankfurters with rolled out bread dough and bake them.

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 03/08/2015 17:54

Another vote for adding cream cheese/grated cheese/cheese spread to the mash.

Quorn hotdogs are nice.

chocolatechip123 · 03/08/2015 17:55

Why won't he eat meat? Who can resist a bacon sarnie? If kids make the food they are more more likely to eat it.

chocolatechip123 · 03/08/2015 18:01

Veggie haggis us also very nice.

Baddz · 03/08/2015 18:02

We grow food.
We have a veg patch.
He picks fruit.
He bakes.
It doesn't help. Sorry...I know you mean well but I've been hearing that bollocks for years.
I know that you are right polter....I need to detach really, but as you know it's us mothers that get the funny looks and head tilts about eating, not the dads!
He absolutely WILL NOT have meat or fish in his mouth (since he was about 2.5) he gags and vomits.
Wont eat stuffing, Yorkshire pudding, pancakes, eggs, beans....I could go on.
His only "meal" is mashed potatoes, carrots and broccoli.
I am so bloody fed up of it.
We are staying with some family we don't know well in a few weeks and I am dreading it already. They have kindly offered to cook for us whilst there but what can I say? Sorry my nearly 7 year old won't eat anything but mash and veg?
Sigh.

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Baddz · 03/08/2015 18:04

Polter....can I ask...how did you get a dietician referral?
We are off to see ds2s paed (saw him for asthma) at some point (when we get an appt!) can I ask then? His paed is lovely but will be pretty dismissive I think....he is growing since his op last year.
We can't really afford private

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Happy36 · 03/08/2015 18:04

Quorn mince is nice in lasagne. Most people don´t taste the difference, and it´s lower in fat (although not really relevant, given all of the other things in lasagne!)

I actually like Quorn burgers - the plain ones. And they are microwaveable! Need ketchup, though, as they are a bit dry.

Happy36 · 03/08/2015 18:05

chocolatechip123 I loathe bacon! I eat everything else.

IsItMeOrIsItHotInHere · 03/08/2015 18:08

Use it to plug big gaps in walls, like that expanding foam stuff.

Wodge it together and use it as a gum shield for contact sports.

Quorn mince works well as a substitute for beanbag filling or cat litter.

Take it to the local pond and throw it to the fish and the ducks.

Chuck it in the bin.

Baddz · 03/08/2015 18:09

He won't eat pasta.
He has a sweet tooth...will eat haribo, cake, chocolate, biscuits. Dh and pils give him far too much of this stuff. I limit it.
He drinks water, blackcurrant squash and apple juice.
My mum has started to make pointed comments which really wind me up.(she has conveniently forgotten that my brother lived on monster munch and jam sandwiches for 2 years as a child:))

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Baddz · 03/08/2015 18:10

Isit....I had sort of some to the same conclusion! Grin

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IsItMeOrIsItHotInHere · 03/08/2015 18:14

It tastes of nothing!

PolterGoose · 03/08/2015 18:17

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Baddz · 03/08/2015 18:23

You see, this is what I can't understand polter. And you would know better than me....
Afaik ds2 is NT. I have no concerns like I did with ds1.
So what's the issue? Sensory?
He is certainly not dyspraxic in any way I understand it. No issues with knife, fork handling etc that could be bothering him.
No bowel issues. Ever. (Unlike ds1)
I just can't see his paed agreeing with me that it's an issue.
Is it an issue!? Argh! :)
I guess if he has stopped putting weight on they might listen to me....

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AliceDoesntLiveHereAnymore · 03/08/2015 18:24

I often have to "dissect" food for ds1.

He doesn't like meat in sandwiches, but will happily eat bread and butter, and then a few small rolled up slices of either ham, pastrami, or beef on the side.

He only just started eating pizza about a year ago or so (he's 9). Initially, he would only nibble the plain crust. Then he slowly advanced to crust with everything scraped off so there was just a bit of pizza sauce left on it. Then crust with teeny bit of sauce and a smattering of cheese. Now he will eat (with encouragement) cheese pizza and will even eat ham pizza and pick off the ham first (previously he wouldn't touch it if ham had touched it). The goal at this point is to get him eating ham pizza. This whole process started when he was about 4, so it's taken a long long time.

He's not fond of cooked carrots, so for a roast dinner he can have raw carrots instead.

Baddz · 03/08/2015 18:29

Hi Alice! (I used to be becaroo many years ago!)
With ds1 (12) I used to buy those pizza bases just with sauce on :) my mil thought I had finally flipped I think but pizza (proper pizza with cheese on) is now his favourite meal!
I am wondering if it might be just a case of him needing to mature?
He has a had a rough couple of years health wise and I must admit his eating has gotten worse since the start of it all (croup, tracheitis, adenotonsilectomy, vitiligo, abdominal migraine....:()

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Happy36 · 03/08/2015 18:31

My younger brother (now 30) was a very, very fussy eater as a child. Really just ate white foods - white bread (with nothing on it), plain white rice or pasta, oven chips (but not actual potatoes), a chicken breast or fillet of cod cooked without any oils or seasoning, and that was about it. Even the rice, pasta, chicken or fish would be picked over with the delicacy of a surgeon and he would end up rejecting about 60% of it for looking or smelling a bit odd. He would drink milk or water, but nothing else.

Later in life he was diagnosed as a super taster, and I have a student at my school (female) who has the same condition. She just eats plain pasta.

People were very judgy of my parents, but their three other children, including me, were brought up alongside my brother and ate more or less anything. I don´t like bacon, my elder brother doesn´t like cucumber and now she´s an adult my sister doesn´t like ice-cream, but that´s about it. My brother was just different. If my parents gave him something else, he just would not eat it. Point blank.

Now he is an adult my brother is a bit overweight, but that´s mostly due to lifestyle as he doesn´t have/make time to exercise. He loves sports and when he has time/makes the effort to play them he goes down to a healthy weight. His overall health is good although he does suffer from a lot of colds which is possibly caused by not eating vegetables or fruit. He has got a little better at eating as he got older, he is married and his wife is vegetarian and he is a very sociable person so he has managed to teach himself to eat things like margherita pizza. However anyone outside of the family would still consider him to be an incredibly fussy eater.

Your son is probably a supertaster too. Just make sure he eats enough (of anything) and gets exercise and is happy. And ignore judgy people!! Good luck.

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Baddz · 03/08/2015 18:39

Hmmmm.yes.

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AliceDoesntLiveHereAnymore · 04/08/2015 09:10

Baddz With ds1, I try to introduce new foods slowly, if possible, making it an offshoot of something we've eaten that he likes already.

For example, he decided in the last 6 months that he likes steak. He's never eaten soup though. So the other day I bought a steak and ale tinned stew. I picked out the steak pieces and a few potato pieces, and put it in a small dish along with his regular meal that day. He tried a piece of the steak and decided it wasn't bad. Yesterday, he tried a small dish of the stew again, just with no juice/sauce, and liked it. I'll keep it at that level for awhile, and then slowly add in a tablespoon of liquid or so for awhile as he gets used to the liquid in there.

Hamburgers were introduced by having tuna mayo (he'll only eat tuna mayo or egg mayo sandwiches) in a hamburger bun occasionally. Then I made sure to make the spag bol with a bit larger pieces of mince in it, pointing out how good the mince tasted. Grin Then we tried the hamburger. Slow going, but often it works. And if it doesn't, I try not to stress over it. The last thin I want to do is make food a huge battle/issue with him.

I'd just try different things as and when, and play it by ear.

AliceDoesntLiveHereAnymore · 04/08/2015 09:10

But we've not had quorn. Grin Or tofu.

Baddz · 04/08/2015 09:12

Yes, I don't want that to happen either.
He was screaming in pain again last night with his abdominal migraine.
10-14 week wait for his paed :(

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