but now you can make any of those 30 pages of mince recipes if you feel like:
http://www.bite.co.nz/search-results/mince

uli - 2018-03-13 18:33:00

gloriousgirl01 wrote:

tried them all them kids refuse to eat them

Are they starving? With enough tomato sauce, most kids would eat dirt.

amasser - 2018-03-14 16:08:00

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steve0061 - 2018-03-14 19:02:00

If we didn't like what was in front of us, could be anything, we were served it for a week, nothing else but that thing. Mine was pumpkin soup and have never eaten it since. The hilarious one was a brother who didn't like jelly. Today's children have busier mothers maybe? they don't have time to argue? If the child is hungry they will eat - it's simple.

jan2242 - 2018-03-20 10:22:00

My kids loved polpette soup which is basically italian little meatball soup - you make the soup which I would make from condensed tomato soup and packet oxtail made up as directed (perhaps a wee bit less water) and I would add a tin of roma tomatoes which I would crush abit - and add into it thin sliced carrots for texture and a vege - and I would add some cooked pasta which the kids like such as penne or alphabet if I had some - and in the oven cooked up small walnut sized meatballs - just use fav recipe then add the balls to the soup after the carrots are cooked in the soup and served with toast - the kids loved it and still a fav now for us adults in the winter time -

wahinetoa62 - 2018-03-24 22:24:00

We love good food, and we want our children to love it too.

I absolutely refuse to make food a battle ground. What does that prove? That I'm 'the boss'? That's already been established. It's not going to help them enjoy good food is it? Eat, or don't eat. But both kids are allowed their (short) list of foods they won't eat. For one it's tomatoes and strawberries. For the other, it's pumpkin.

For the record, both eat a huge range of fruit, vegetables (one's favourite is brussel sprouts!), meats, fish, and a wide range of cuisines - Thai, Indian, Mexican, Chinese, English, etc. (We're all struggling a bit with North American though, lol). And enjoy it. Even though this 'modern mother' 'pandered' to her child going through a fairly standard fussy phase at around two, and let her eat only cheese, ham and marmite sandwiches, breakfast, lunch and tea for two solid months - til she got sick to death of that and begged for meat and veges.

Far too many old school parents, and 'expert parents' (you know the kind - those that have never had kids, and therefore know exactly how it ought to be done, lol), really have trouble with the concept that yes, all kids are different. And there ARE kids that will starve themselves rather than eat what is put in front of them. You might not have had one, or come across one, but yes, they do exist, and it's a very difficult condition to live with and also to treat. If a parent has one of 'those' kids, imagine how singularly unhelpful the everpresent chorus of - 'hungry kids eat what is in front of them, they won't starve themselves, just don't give into them and pander to their tastes', is. . .

mbos - 2018-03-29 04:27:00

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.

You really need to get over yourself.

ruby12344 - 2018-03-29 09:09:00

"EAT IT, or you can sit there all night" and my parents meant it, and I sat at the table all night (slept)
The next morning it was removed, and dished up to me the next night. "Eat it, or you sit there all night"
I finally ate it, and wished I had eaten it the night before, as it wasn't very tasty the next night. I never did it again.

westward1 - 2018-03-29 16:13:00

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autumnwinds - 2019-03-21 23:36:00

Just throw a tin of watties spaghetti in the mince, lol

teakiawa - 2019-03-24 07:51:00

"One Pan Dinner" -

fry an onion in a little oil, add about 500g mince and cook until brown. Then add couple of shakes of soy sauce, a packet of maggi chicken noodle soup mix, 3cups of beef stock liquid, teaspoon or so of dried mixed herbs (or dried oregano). mix through and then add a cup of chopped (finely chopped if you have fussy kids) carrot and celery and about half a cup - 3/4 cup of any dried pasta. Cook for 20 minutes or so - or until pasta is cooked through . I also add finely chopped cabbage onto the top for the last five minutes - but your kids may not like this. Tried and true recipe from my mum who called it "One Pan Dinner". Great heated through the next day too.

dinkypinky - 2019-03-24 16:33:00

mix up the mince with whatever, preferably lots of veges and flavours, spread on thickly rolled out flakey pastry, roll up and cut into slices about 1" thick, like cinnamon swirls, place on baking paper and cook in hot oven.

articferrit - 2019-03-24 17:22:00

articferrit wrote:

mix up the mince with whatever, preferably lots of veges and flavours, spread on thickly rolled out flakey pastry, roll up and cut into slices about 1" thick, like cinnamon swirls, place on baking paper and cook in hot oven.

Have made similar when my kids were young but used scone dough and sprinkled with grated cheese before cooking - great way to use up leftovers too.

sarahb5 - 2019-03-25 19:55:00