Feed a family of four for £20 a week challenge

barneydee_2

Realy love the different ideas about how to make cabbage more interesting
I think with some people who are fussy eaters & believe me my oh is the worst lol it's how you use the ingredants I.e he's not a big veg eater if I do a roast & just do plain boiled veg he will not eat them, but if I'm a bit more creative I e make a veg curry he will eat them lol
I have several little black books where I write down recipes I get off of here, I then write down a list of ways I can add to or take away from so these ones for cabbages are going in my little black books, I would like to think that in years to come my dd's will be able to make use of these books
So keep the recipes coming ladies

Dee x

Spendless

just another suggestion for young fussy eaters. I found if I changed the name of something when my son was around 3 or 4 he was more open to the idea as it wasn't the dish he associated with disliking


eg at a wedding, soup was served as a starter, son didn't like tomato soup but he liked this special red soup. Another day it was snowing and I had him and a baby and not a great deal in for lunch, but we had tuna, sweetcorn and potatoes, I'm sure on any other day being presented with tuna fishcakes, he'd have not liked them either but he was happy with 'snowcakes, a special meal you make to celebrate snow falling'.

Feral_Moon

Sorry but I think inventing special names is just inviting a child to be fussy. I'm of the old school ilk in that you don't give children a choice. We're eating "this particular food/meal" as a family and if you don't eat it then you go hungry. My children were never fussy eaters but they had their dislikes which became apparent as a genuine dislike rather than just being fussy. I didn't like tomatoes or tea as a child. Nothing on this earth would have made me eat/drink either. I now love tomatoes but I still hate tea

moneyistooshorttomention

I thought I disliked vegetables as a child.

The truth of it was that I disliked the way my mother prepared them - but I didn't dislike the vegetables themselves as I subsequently found out. She was prone to over or under boiling them and never served anything with them.

So I didn't/don't like her boiled potatoes for instance. But I do like my steamed potatoes, served with plenty of butter and a grind of decent salt on top.

I didn't/don't like her boiled any-other-veggies. But I do like steamed other veggies with that loadsa butter/nice salt OR with some olive oil and a squeeze of fresh lemon juice on top of them and some nice salt.

Stir-fries with a bit of interesting flavouring in - eg some decent soya sauce - and with some tastier type veg. as part of the mix (eg tomatoes) is another possibility.

Sometimes too its the way of serving a particular veggie that makes the difference. I wont touch beetroot if its pickled or roasted - but I will have a bit of raw grated beetroot as part of a mixed salad and with a decent dressing for instance.

tessie_bear

sorry but i hate piddling about with food...broccoli isnt broccoli its green trees etc if it works good luck to you but i refused that route and call food what it is...horses for courses i suppose
tessa

Spendless

Feral_Moon wrote: »

Sorry but I think inventing special names is just inviting a child to be fussy. I'm of the old school ilk in that you don't give children a choice. We're eating "this particular food/meal" as a family and if you don't eat it then you go hungry. My children were never fussy eaters but they had their dislikes which became apparent as a genuine dislike rather than just being fussy. I didn't like tomatoes or tea as a child. Nothing on this earth would have made me eat/drink either. I now love tomatoes but I still hate tea

Son was 3 or 4 when the new names were 'invented'. He's now 15 and I guarantee he wouldn't even remember the story. Over time I'm sure we lost the 'family' name of food for the original one, by then he'd be old enough to know he liked the item not to just announce 'don't like it' when faced with an item. Besides, toad in the hole, cottage pie, bubble and squeak, bread and butter pudding do you think they'd sound so appealing if we labelled them as what they originally were - 'leftovers'.

Spendless

Ok, I went back and asked now 15yo son about the tomato soup story and why he'd said he didn't like it. His explanation was at that time he disliked tomatoes, (he's still not overly keen on them) so to him at that age if he didn't like tomatoes, he wouldn't like a soup that was made of something he didn't like. By calling it 'red soup' we'd taken the tomato association away and he tried and liked it.

Bluegreen143

Spendless I don't think there's anything wrong with the renaming thing. When my sister and I were wee, we didn't like fresh peaches but did like carrots. So my mum called tinned peaches "sweet carrots" we ate them and by our preteen years knew they were really tinned peaches (and indeed liked fresh peaches by then too). We're both spectacularly unfussy and actually were as children too (apart from peaches haha) so didn't do us any harm. Oh and we called broccoli green trees when we were tiny too, not because we didn't like it, it was just a cute name.

RAS

My friends' small daughter had a stuff toy lamb.

They never ate anything called "lamb" although some of the meat on their plates had worn woolly jumpers before visiting the abattoir.

Butterfly_Brain

RAS wrote: »

My friends' small daughter had a stuff toy lamb.

They never ate anything called "lamb" although some of the meat on their plates had worn woolly jumpers before visiting the abattoir.

MY DD just read that and howled with laughter, she said to me "Mum, do you remember when we went on holiday when I was about five, before DS was born, and you won a stuffed lamb and a stuffed pig on the grab machines and I named one pork chop and the other lamb chop" :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
She is a vegetarian now but she still has pork chop and lamb chop