General Chat

It wasn't of course :-D

Sharron, I knew some people who had a slice of bread and butter with their bowl of jelly many moons ago. I had never done that but when I was with them I did the same. It seemed polite to do so. Only pleased it was'nt something like sheeps' eyes :-0

The product title 'Ayds' turned out to be an unfortunate choice of word to describe a 'slimming biscuit'.

I love bread and butter now that there is no song and dance about me having to eat it before I had anything else.

Really. I sm 61, I have never liked sprouts. My mum gave them to me once, hated them.

Why all the fuss, as my mum said as long as I was eating all my other vegs why should she force me to eat sonething I did not like.

Forcing a dhild to eat any food they do not like, is just as likely to lead to eating disorders.

I used to be able to eat cinnamon but recently have come to really dislike it and try to avoid anything with it in.

Dermot ???

Sharron, cinnamon toast is lovely.

Wasn't last nights Mog the cat advert for Sainsbury just wonderful?

Totally engrossing - much better than the penguins.

My mum called them "fairy cabbages", worked for me.

Pizza and sprouts topping uuggrrhh .....what could be worse ;-)

We learned quickly......... if mum said "this is good for you" we wouldn't eat it.

If she'd just put it on our plates & ignored us, we might have tried it......... then refused to eat it.

It took me years to realise that anything father didn't like wasn't put on his plate! :-P

I never made my children eat anything - but I did always put the vegetables on the table for them to help themselves.
When they asked what something was I would look doubtful and say that I didn't think they would like it until they were older as it was grown ups food ;-)
Dishes of broccoli, cauliflower, sprouts, mashed carrot with swede etc disappeared before my eyes lol.

Cinnamon tastes like soap.

Genes play a large part in taste perception.

Google Supertaster for more info.

If you have the gene, fresh cilantro can taste like soap.

Rose

'The human imagination breaks free at Christmas, urged on by the desire to see our world as it isn't'. :-S

:-D :-D

I used to prep a lot of surplus food for storage over the seasons.

There would be a large bowl of freshly boiled beetroot in fridge ready to be bottled.

We would hear the fridge door open and shut...youngest (then about 7) would be lurking, when asked what she was up to we would get the reply "nothing" and she would grin with dark red coloured teeth :-D

My eldest loves tomatoes. Her younger sister has never liked them in any shape or form. This means things like any fresh tomato - of any colour - baked beans, tinned spaghetti, spaghetti Bolognese, or any stew with added tinned tomatoes. She also won't eat ketchup, brown sauce or mayonnaise.
Elder daughter also loves sprouts - younger sister won't touch them - neither will elder daughter's children.

As for vegetables, when they were young, we used to grow our own (but not sprouts). I was lucky to find peas and beans on the higher reaches of the plant!
I'd go to pull up carrots, only to find the carrot had been eaten, and the 'top' shoved back into the ground :-|

...they ate a lot of dirt......

We'll fool her somehow, the sprout will not be a green ball ;-)

I still think it's texture not taste that determines likes and dislikes....

Mashed banana - hoovered up - progress to sliced banana - in mouth, removed with fingers (not spat out), examined and flicked, after a number of attempts, off fingers.

Pureed apple then progress to grated apple, repeat above.

Opposing: rusks - give whole for baby to suck and grind gums on - great, soak in milk, removed with fingers..lolol

My school meals were absolutely great, cooked on premises and honestly very good quality. NO choice. NO fast food and we served ourselves from trays/dishes/jugs at each table, portioned for 8.

My son now eats absolutely anything, eldest hates mushrooms so does youngest, strangely my sister was allergic to them.......coincidence?

Food for thought (great pun eh?)

Sprouts are OK at Christmas, but we don't have them at another time. Parboiled, sliced in half, quickly fried in butter and sprinkled with bits of crispy bacon, or chopped, blanched almonds. Frying lessens the 'bitter' taste.

Custard and blancmange are my bet-noir. That originates from school dinners when they stirred in the 'skin'. Yuk.

Our son was the worst when it came to vegetables. He wouldn't eaten green veg. Green = Bad/rotten. The only style of potatoes he'd eat were chipped or roasted. That started to change when he went into catered Halls at Uni. Either eat what was offered, or go hungry!

My cousins wouldn't eat the marmalade my aunt made so she sent it to Granny who gave them that orange jam they enjoyed so much.