Hmm - the OP never came back - wonder who won the battle of the mince dishes?

sarahb5 - 2016-03-03 21:00:00

Gawd, imagine if todays kids had to eat what I was fed in the 70"s.

Edited by sossie1 at 9:01 pm, Thu 3 Mar

sossie1 - 2016-03-03 21:01:00

tell the children to eat what is in front of them or else!!!!!!!!!!!

289capri - 2016-03-03 21:16:00

sossie1 wrote:

Gawd, imagine if todays kids had to eat what I was fed in the 70"s.

My mum, a farmer's daughter, used to make the most ghastly offal casserole ocasionally. BLERK!

paora-tm - 2016-03-03 21:19:00

paora-tm wrote:

My mum, a farmer's daughter, used to make the most ghastly offal casserole ocasionally. BLERK!

my mum made lamb hearts roasted with stuffing, that was blerk as well

sossie1 - 2016-03-03 21:20:00

Another sigh from me. All parents have different experiences with feeding their kids. If you have super Taster kids then they will go to bed hungry every night rather than eat what they don't like. While this does not kill them, it does leave them nutrient deficient if it occurs regularly. I make my kids try stuff, but it makes for a very unpleasant drawn out evening meal trying to make them eat it every night.
To be helpful my suggestion is try bland. ( add salt in small amounts after cooking and ask there preference. Do not add salty stocks or flavourings, tomatoes, herbs or spices. Mince boil up thickened with cornflour on creamy mashed potato with colby cheese on top for them. Plus peas/ peas n corn on the side. Do a big batch so you can freeze it, feed them that and yourself something tastier. I've been there for the last 7 years with my son. He doesn't like my idea of tasty mince. Another idea is you could dilute their portion of what you like with the bland boil up.
If thats not the cause then my guess is they don't like any mince and you may as well give up..( do they eat McDonald's burger patties?) good luck.

wendalls - 2016-03-03 21:48:00

wendalls wrote:

Another sigh from me. All parents have different experiences with feeding their kids. If you have super Taster kids then they will go to bed hungry every night rather than eat what they don't like. While this does not kill them, it does leave them nutrient deficient if it occurs regularly. I make my kids try stuff, but it makes for a very unpleasant drawn out evening meal trying to make them eat it every night.
To be helpful my suggestion is try bland. ( add salt in small amounts after cooking and ask there preference. Do not add salty stocks or flavourings, tomatoes, herbs or spices. Mince boil up thickened with cornflour on creamy mashed potato with colby cheese on top for them. Plus peas/ peas n corn on the side. Do a big batch so you can freeze it, feed them that and yourself something tastier. I've been there for the last 7 years with my son. He doesn't like my idea of tasty mince. Another idea is you could dilute their portion of what you like with the bland boil up.
If thats not the cause then my guess is they don't like any mince and you may as well give up..( do they eat McDonald's burger patties?) good luck.

Unfortunately OP hasn't been back into the thread so we don't even know how old her kids are, why they particularly need to eat mince or whether she's found any mince recipes they will eat ... However your recommendation of mince boil up on mashed potato with thickener, peas and corn would have gone down like a bucket of cold s*ck with my kids - they were always served what we were having - that included spicy food, curry, sauces, plenty of seasoning. I never cooked differently for them and despite the fact my older son was quite resistant for a while to anything that required effort to eat they would at least try anything and I don't remember them ever looking at a plate of food and saying they didn't like it without even trying it, partly because they saw us eating it.

sarahb5 - 2016-03-03 22:36:00

And your kids are way different to many others Sarah, as are mine! Why can't people recognise that not all kids respond to the same ideas? Same in any area of parenting. My eldest loves spicy and eats hot curries. The youngest can't bear many flavourings and his lunchbox comes home largely untouched as well. There's no way he'll eat it when home and he becomes psycho probably from low blood sugar. I've tried every suggestion imaginable but life has to go on around his picky eating.
I was giving a suggestion that others hadn't already offered. if her kids are tweens then it might not be relevant But then - im not sure of the relevance of what your kids 'd think of boil up mince to the thread either. If the OP wants to disregard my suggestion then she can.

wendalls - 2016-03-03 23:12:00

wendalls wrote:

And your kids are way different to many others Sarah, as are mine! Why can't people recognise that not all kids respond to the same ideas? Same in any area of parenting. My eldest loves spicy and eats hot curries. The youngest can't bear many flavourings and his lunchbox comes home largely untouched as well. There's no way he'll eat it when home and he becomes psycho probably from low blood sugar. I've tried every suggestion imaginable but life has to go on around his picky eating.
I was giving a suggestion that others hadn't already offered. if her kids are tweens then it might not be relevant But then - im not sure of the relevance of what your kids 'd think of boil up mince to the thread either. If the OP wants to disregard my suggestion then she can.

The fact that all kids are different and have different tastes was kind of the point of my post it we don't know whether any of the suggestions have been helpful because OP hasn't been back to the thread ...

Feeding a family is a balancing act but I just didn't have the time, inclination or finances to make different meals for everyone so they ate what we were having, went hungry or made their own.

sarahb5 - 2016-03-04 07:41:00

I must say, I think wendalls' suggestion is a good one - in that without knowing why/what the children are fussy about, presenting a variety of strategies gives OP best shot at right option.
I guess I grew up on a pretty bland diet; my mother's only foray into the world of spice was the Edmond cookbook's curried sausages lol.

paora-tm wrote:

My mum, a farmer's daughter, used to make the most ghastly offal casserole ocasionally. BLERK!

Offal casserole is great. I have it once a week ;)

mjhdeal - 2016-03-04 08:20:00

sarahb5 wrote:

Hmm - the OP never came back - wonder who won the battle of the mince dishes?

Not surprisingly. The thread is over a year old. It was dragged up again to give us all the benefit of a childless poster's wisdom.

Edited by kay141 at 8:46 am, Fri 4 Mar

kay141 - 2016-03-04 08:45:00

kay141 wrote:

Not surprisingly. The thread is over a year old. It was dragged up again to give us all the benefit of a childless poster's wisdom.

The poster who bumped it mentioned their kids??

mjhdeal - 2016-03-04 09:13:00

kay141 wrote:

Not surprisingly. The thread is over a year old. It was dragged up again to give us all the benefit of a childless poster's wisdom.

Ha ha - no surprise there then!

sarahb5 - 2016-03-04 09:22:00

im over old threads, i dont mind people asking the same question year after year :) we cna answer again....bumping threads - for bored people

motorbo - 2016-03-04 11:26:00

The bumping of old threads just for the sake of it is becoming tiresome ...different it someone has a query that an old thread would answer, but that's often not the case these days.

samanya - 2016-03-04 11:36:00

uli wrote:

Kids will eat anything ... if there is nothing else :)

No they won't ....

sarahb5 - 2016-03-04 12:30:00

mjhdeal wrote:

The poster who bumped it mentioned their kids??

Nope, has none.

samanya - 2016-03-04 18:43:00

That naughty Uli again! I fell for it when I should have been getting some shut eye.. Lol

wendalls - 2016-03-04 20:08:00

uli wrote:

Kids will eat anything ... if there is nothing else :)

I know it sounds harsh to all the lovely kiwi mums who even cut of the gooey "crusts" of their white bread for their darlings

That's more than a little insulting to most New Zealand Mums and also.... how/what? Gooey crusts''? What is that? Crusts are - well 'crusty' till proven otherwise. How does that even enter the equation. No question mark on the end of that because it's a silly supposition... 'gooey crusts' being cut off... what next? Or was it a bread pudding you were referencing in which case... yep agreed, lovely gooey crusts... scrummy stuff all round.

sampa - 2016-03-04 21:36:00

samanya wrote:

Things/attitude-
s/child raising ideas have changed & children now have choices as to what they would like to eat!
I can't spell it out any clearer & if you can't understand what I'm saying ...not my problem. GOT IT?

Oh YES ... I GOT it alright - I was in a sushi shop today and wanted to buy two or three pieces for lunch ... I was not prepared for the "Modern Mother" .... coming in a minute later... in fact I aborted the idea to eat there (the owners asking me if I was alright, as they know me since decades and were worried about my quick "escape" ...)

So "Modern Mother" came in with two kids - both below 5 years old ... both were encouraged by "Modern Mother" to pick and choose (lots of touching and not buying )and then of course they were told to to "eat up" ... You can imagine the mayhem!

Why on earth cannot a mother pick and choose a few pieces for her kids and then leave the rest of the patrons to eat in peace and quiet? Why do we have to listen to screaming, discussions etc only because "Modern Mother" has to have her kids to choose their lunch?

The owners (very nice Korean people rolled their eyes!) Would have never happened in their country I am sure!

uli - 2016-03-05 19:52:00

"Gooey crusts" are the light brown stuff that adheres to the edges of the $1 bread in plastic bags.

Real crusts are actually "crusty" - but I guess if the "gooey crusts" are already too hard to chew for the poor kids then the "'real" crusts would be very much too hard to bear or chew :)

uli - 2016-03-05 19:55:00

Well if she chose they would refuse to eat it, it'd be a waste of money and they'd then be screaming I'm hungry and having low blood sugar tantrums. I agree they shouldn't have touched any food, that's not on. I'd have thought she'd give them the odd piece from her box to see if they like it.probably they just wanted maccas today and she was trying to encourage a healthier option which backfired today. Maybe she beat them for embarrassing her when she got home...

wendalls - 2016-03-05 20:03:00

Well my kids are worse Uli. They won't eat sandwiches anymore. I have certainly never cut crusts off though. However many will say it's no great loss not having sandwiches, although the older two are trying to eat healthily, cooking omelettes for breakfast etc, mr 7 is a sugar addict. He comes home screaming with hunger. There s no way he'll eat what is still in his lunchbox short of force feeding him. I usually insist on a banana and cereal (weetbix or sultana bran) at this point.

wendalls - 2016-03-05 20:13:00

wendalls wrote:

Well my kids are worse Uli. They won't eat sandwiches anymore. I have certainly never cut crusts off though. However many will say it's no great loss not having sandwiches, although the older two are trying to eat healthily, cooking omelettes for breakfast etc, mr 7 is a sugar addict. He comes home screaming with hunger. There s no way he'll eat what is still in his lunchbox short of force feeding him. I usually insist on a banana and cereal (weetbix or sultana bran) at this point.

Go with the flow, you know best as far as your kids are concerned...don;t bother with advice from childless know alls.

samanya - 2016-03-05 20:20:00

uli wrote:

Oh YES ... I GOT it alright - I was in a sushi shop today and wanted to buy two or three pieces for lunch ... I was not prepared for the "Modern Mother" .... coming in a minute later... in fact I aborted the idea to eat there (the owners asking me if I was alright, as they know me since decades and were worried about my quick "escape" ...)

So "Modern Mother" came in with two kids - both below 5 years old ... both were encouraged by "Modern Mother" to pick and choose (lots of touching and not buying )and then of course they were told to to "eat up" ... You can imagine the mayhem!

Why on earth cannot a mother pick and choose a few pieces for her kids and then leave the rest of the patrons to eat in peace and quiet? Why do we have to listen to screaming, discussions etc only because "Modern Mother" has to have her kids to choose their lunch?

The owners (very nice Korean people rolled their eyes!) Would have never happened in their country I am sure!

Seriously - would you like someone else to choose your lunch for you and expect you to eat it without consultation? You really have no idea about children - they're not actually any different from adult humans, they're just smaller, and just like adults they have likes, dislikes, preferences and choices - why would a mother just buy them any old sushi without asking them what they actually wanted? What a waste of food and money ... And good on the mother for having kids who know their own minds. We're not breeding robots you know ...

sarahb5 - 2016-03-05 20:54:00

eastie3 wrote:

I agree,wholeheartedly.
ETA: I speak from experience,having had to use 100 ways with mince to feed a young family when the housekeeping budget didn't allow for steak.

Well if meat is such a drama for your children... then leave it out and cook vegetarian food for them.

karlymouse - 2016-03-05 23:51:00

sarahb5 wrote:

Seriously - would you like someone else to choose your lunch for you and expect you to eat it without consultation? You really have no idea about children - they're not actually any different from adult humans, they're just smaller, and just like adults they have likes, dislikes, preferences and choices - why would a mother just buy them any old sushi without asking them what they actually wanted? What a waste of food and money ... And good on the mother for having kids who know their own minds. We're not breeding robots you know ...

Yes "Seriously" if it ends up in such a drama I think toddlers should get fed something that mum knows they will eat. Once they know what they like and want to chose something else for a trial fine - but that display was off-putting for everyone,

For the mother, the shop owners and the customers. If the kids would have known "their own minds" as you call it - then we wouldn't have had all that drama would we. They would have happily chosen what they wanted. They didn't obviously.

uli - 2016-03-11 17:17:00

uli wrote:

Yes "Seriously" if it ends up in such a drama I think toddlers should get fed something that mum knows they will eat. Once they know what they like and want to chose something else for a trial fine - but that display was off-putting for everyone,

For the mother, the shop owners and the customers. If the kids would have known "their own minds" as you call it - then we wouldn't have had all that drama would we. They would have happily chosen what they wanted. They didn't obviously.

Could swear further up you were stating kids should eat what's put in front of them without being picky, so does that only apply in certain situations?

kmole - 2016-03-11 20:21:00

kmole wrote:

Could swear further up you were stating kids should eat what's put in front of them without being picky, so does that only apply in certain situations?

Flip flop ... Busted!

sarahb5 - 2016-03-11 20:47:00

karlymouse wrote:

Well if meat is such a drama for your children... then leave it out and cook vegetarian food for them.

They have their own children now karlymouse so they can do as they like. Otherwise, thanks for such a friendly response.

eastie3 - 2016-03-11 22:18:00

** another too good [for many reasons..;) ] to lose.... **

autumnwinds - 2017-03-05 02:48:00

Eat what's put in front of you or starve, you little buggers!

rainrain1 - 2017-03-05 07:50:00

Hungry kids are never fussy. Teach them to eat properly. I see so many parents feeding their kids meat and potato, usually chips. No veges. Mine ate what we ate. If they didn't want it, they went without.

lythande1 - 2017-03-05 08:10:00

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pogram0 - 2017-03-05 14:53:00

lythande1 wrote:

Hungry kids are never fussy. Teach them to eat properly. I see so many parents feeding their kids meat and potato, usually chips. No veges. Mine ate what we ate. If they didn't want it, they went without.

Agree, eat what's put on the table, some of todays parents pussy foot around the kids, and buy into their whims.

fifie - 2017-03-05 18:39:00

lythande1 wrote:

Hungry kids are never fussy. Teach them to eat properly. I see so many parents feeding their kids meat and potato, usually chips. No veges. Mine ate what we ate. If they didn't want it, they went without.

As a youngster my son would rather go hungry or have Weetbix than eat something he didn't like - in fact, sometimes he still does!

sarahb5 - 2017-03-06 22:00:00

I disagree with some of this "eat what's put in front of you".....Some people just don't like the texture/taste of some things. One of my pet hates is cauliflower, along with the fat off meat, it's one of the two things that literally make me chuck. When I was young 10 or 11 from memory, the family was invited out for dinner. I got the usual "you eat what's put in front of you" lecture. What they hadn't counted on was the cauli.....I tried, and failed. It came straight back up all over the tablecloth. It wasn't deliberate, I just can't stomach the stuff. Never got that lecture again lol....I

hound31 - 2017-03-07 17:42:00

I get it, hound31. For me it was sitting alone in front of leeks in white sauce, cold and congealed because it was 9pm and I was made to sit there until I ate it. I gagged every time then, and I shudder now when I even see a raw leek. It's the most disgusting dish ever made, and cruel and unusual punishment to be forced to eat it.

kaddiew - 2017-03-07 18:28:00

Well I was never that tough on my kids, when it came to disliking one veg. We just all sat down to the same meal. I don't ever remember my kids disliking too much at all, they were always energetic hungry growing people.

rainrain1 - 2017-03-07 19:20:00

I used to have a friend's son stay. He was a very fussy eater but I would make up bowls of everything and he could make up his own Mexican style meals. He would devour everything and told his mother it was far more fun eating at my place lol. You guessed it, he didn't eat lettuce, tomatoes or cheese at home but happily put them into a wrap.

purdie69 - 2017-03-09 14:12:00

purdie69 wrote:

but happily put them into a wrap.

Surprising how a "Wrap" cam make a difference.

A Friend of mine up North did a Spiralized Ultimate Vege Wrap, her son (a very big overweighted boy) simply loved them but try eating veges cooked individually is a "No Go", he evens offered to help to make them which I was so pleased for his sake. He was literally just a meat eater mainly Mince with heaps of tomato sauce added.

He did ask if a bit of mince could be added and I told my friend to just put in a little bit and keep control, she reported back that he was happy and is now using most veges in a wrap.

Cheers

valentino - 2017-03-09 14:26:00

My fussy grandee eats wraps when at our place, she struggles with vegs salads etc, Salad,grated carrot, tomatoes little mince, grated cheese, sour cream. She found out lasagna is ok to. I used a jar of legos cheesy tomato sauce in the mince. Heard her telling mum to go shopping for some ingredients before she got picked up as she was going to make these for the family. Same miss I used to make chicken noodle soup for her with vegs in, she had no idea they were there and loved it in winter, so we could get some vegs into her when younger.

fifie - 2017-03-09 19:26:00

But wait....there's more....
http://www.anathoth.co.nz/recipe/autumn-harvest-meatballs/

Kiddie widds like the cheese oozing out of the middle :-)

Edited by rainrain1 at 7:36 am, Sat 11 Mar

rainrain1 - 2017-03-11 07:34:00

This kiddie widd would devour those meatball too.

kaddiew - 2017-03-11 12:01:00

So would this one!

rainrain1 - 2017-03-11 13:36:00

I would too but my kids didn't like cheese when they were young - they still wouldn't choose to eat it unless its cooked - like on pizza or in a burger!

sarahb5 - 2017-03-12 13:30:00

Op google stack of recipes magic mince, scroll down there is a whole heap of recipes in there that used to be on here, you might find something suitable to try.

fifie - 2017-03-12 14:12:00

valentino wrote:

Surprising how a "Wrap" cam make a difference.

A Friend of mine up North did a Spiralized Ultimate Vege Wrap, her son (a very big overweighted boy) simply loved them but try eating veges cooked individually is a "No Go", he evens offered to help to make them which I was so pleased for his sake. He was literally just a meat eater mainly Mince with heaps of tomato sauce added.

He did ask if a bit of mince could be added and I told my friend to just put in a little bit and keep control, she reported back that he was happy and is now using most veges in a wrap.

Cheers

Latest news is he has lost weight - WAHOOOO !!!!

valentino - 2017-03-13 14:49:00

I have no idea how I ate twenty odd years of boiled mince with a few peas and carrots chucked in...... back in the days when mince meant just that. Kids are just spoilt for choice....

kara101 - 2017-03-13 22:19:00

You mean this kara101?
http://www.bite.co.nz/recipe/10847/Topp-Twins-mince-on-toast
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uli - 2018-03-13 18:33:00