What meal made your heart sink as a child

[lemisscared]

For me i think it was mince and potatoes. The mince was from a tin ffs!! With tinned peas and carrots.

My mum used to make me eat this and i would gag and cry! Oh and fucking ready brek as i would get pneumonia if i didn't eat it - boak

[ArtyBat]

For breakfast - gloopy porridge followed by gloopy soft boiled eggs ....vom face

School puddings - semolina, tapioca, and sago - yuk! yuk! yuk!

Can't bear any of them to this day!

[Canyouforgiveher]

offal. There was actually a dinner called offal. Lump of god knows what part of the animal boiled in water. Even the smell was awful. I think she stopped cooking it by the time I was 10 or so.

[Gileswithachainsaw]

Oh god school meals were vile weren't they. I remember mince with garb swimming ok top and what I'm assuming were either tinted or frozen carrots because they were corrugated. They were watery and vile.

[Ohfourfoxache]

Yep, we also had the "standing over until it was eaten" thing OP.

And "think of the starving children in Africa" - that used to make me cry Actually found out when I was 11 that my jaw was in the wrong place - I'd been shouted at every mealtime for years and it turned out that I had a lot of difficulty eating. I just thought it was normal and that I was naughty

[fawkesdongle]

My dmum was/is a brilliant cook. But I could never stand Roast Lamb.
I can't even stand the smell of it cooking now.

That's it though, I was lucky, unlike DH who has a big list of weird things his dmum used to make him eat - complete with threats

[AdamLambsbreath]

Lentil bake, and potato pancakes. I think the latter was because the potato stayed a bit crunchy and undercooked on the inside and I hated the taste.

I would happily eat both now - as long as the potato was cooked through!

[Bluetone]

Op made me laugh. Having mince and tatties here tonight (not tinned) and just bought Ready Brek for kids to try.

For me it was pork chops, new potatoes and Sweetcorn. Love it now though.

[Slowdownsally]

Ham sandwiches for tea at my nan's house.

I am, and always have been, a vegetarian, yet she would always make me a ham sandwich.

Banana split is the other one. I hate cream and bananas; that pudding was effectively slime in a bowl for me.

[SDTGisASpookyWoooolefGenius]

Pretty much every school dinner - but the absolute worst was pilchards in tomato sauce. The tomato sauce was nothing like ketchup, and was chilly and jellified, and tasted of nothing. Served with instant mash - it was vile.

[WorraLiberty]

Boiled bacon and cabbage.

I remember coming home from school and the house smelled of old farts.

[Alibabaandthe40nappies]

BigTilly I only have brothers so I don't think so, perhaps they had the same book?

I'm so grateful that both my parents hate offal, so I've never been subjected to it!

I loved mince and potatoes - mince cooked with onions and an oxo cube crumbled over it to make gravy, Smash, and cabbage. Was delicious! Might put that on next week's meal plan actually and see what my Dcs make of it.

[Icantwaituntilxmas]

Fatty mince at school... you know when you chewed into it and it was hard. I shudder just thinking about it.

[ButEmilylovedhim]

Braising steak! With lovely veins of fat and gristle running through it. I used to hate it and refuse to eat the meat but the gravy and mash were ok. My mum used to be disappointed as it probably wasn't the cheapest meal but I just couldn't. Me and my sister used to give all the bits of meat to my dad who loved it! She persevered all my childhood and they still have it now! My DH had to suffer it too in his house as a child. We never have any kind of beef casserole now... Lucky kids have nice food!

[wannabestressfree]

My mums fishermans pie :( and homemade rice pudding which you could put wallpaper up with.

[bigTillyMint]

My great aunt gave me tongue once. I couldn't eat a thing from the table for the thought of a great big cow's tongue. The thought still makes me ill now!

[kiwiscantfly]

When mum used to go away for work (once in a blue moon) we used to have Dads favourite veg, cabbage with sausages, which he couldn't stuff up. Dinner was a huge serving of boiled cabbage and a sausage. To this day I rarely eat cabbage, and when mum comes to visit us, Dad makes cabbage! To be fair, he now stir-fries it with butter so it probably tastes better!

[mrspremise]

YY to Shepherd's COTTAGE Pie! (Always called Shepherd's Pie, but made with beef ) DM cooked it loads and always using the pressure cooker. Neither my brother or I can stand the stuff as adults!

[bigTillyMint]

Sago. And tapioca. But we only had it at school.

[Bunbaker]

Boiled ham an pease pudding. Revolting stuff. And salad with lots of beetroot in it.

We were served these regularly at school and we weren't allowed to leave anything.

[vinoandbrie]

Fucking ready break here too!

And anything involving lentils. My mum used to make lentil loaf instead of bread. Dear god.

And really most of the crap she 'cooked'. She was not acquainted with a recipe book, and thought salt was the work of the devil.

Awful. I'll stop now or I'll write an essay.

[rookiemater]

Lots of those things sound absolutely disgusting.
I hated Mum's beef stew served with mashed turnips and carrots . I hate all plain comfort food that isn't spiced like shepherds pie or meat pie.

Absolute worst dinner ever was served at school and was cowboys pie - smash, baked beans and spam. I find baked beans abhorrent so I used to cry when I saw it on the menu.

[DillyDallyDaydreamer]

porridge made with water served with marge ( think this was if we'd run out of milk or where particularly skint) mushroom flan with boiled potatoes and green beans yuk

[needyoumorethanwantyou]

Fried luncheon meat which I'd have to force down. Fuck knows why as if my Mum would never have made me eat it if she'd known.

I'll still force food down even if I hate it if it's been cooked for me. Too polite I think!.

[ShatnersKaBOOM]

Chicken 'casserole'. It was just chicken and some root veg in Oxo, cooked from 7am to 6pm in the slow cooker. It was tasteless, chunky soup. Enough was made for a few nights, and it was even worse reheated.