Dismayed!

[Tracey]

Snadger

I didn't appreciate the vitality in fresh food when I was younger, I thought I'd always feel full of energy and good health and didn't connect it to the quality of food. I do now, my diet has a direct affect on my health and mood. I wish I'd made the connection earlier.

Two Sheds

Could you use a roasting tin and divided it up to serve?

I buy frozen - simply because I don't have any tins for baking them in. It's daft to go and buy a tin for one use.

[Kayt]

My daughter was my incredibly fussy one and use to drive me nuts. She would eat lots of the same foods where as the boys were fairly good although Number 2 son not very keen on veg. Now at 25 with her own two little ones she is much better and my grandchildren eat everything. I was speechless a few weeks ago though when she phoned me one sunday morning and said how wonderful the local farm shop was, lovely produce and so much cheaper!! I've been telling her this for years but obviously I must have been talking Chinese!! Number 1 son realised he likes swede and turnip recently. What he didn't realise was that he's been eating it for years mixed in with the mash on top of shepherds pie and Number 2 son finished off my vegetable lasagne which I hadn't bothered to hide as I didn't think he would touch it!! They still think I'm mad to have taken on an allotment and look on in despair when I get excited about finding a free supply of manure but it looks as if all my work over the years wasn't for nothing.

[MaureenHall]

Thanks for that Bride. I was thinking about Yorkshires this morning: we only have them at Xmas (for the Outlaws) and I buy frozen - simply because I don't have any tins for baking them in. It's daft to go and buy a tin for one use.

I don't have yorkies just with roast beef, I make them most weeks and have with mince, chops, stew, all kinds of roasts .......................... but perhaps that's cos I'm a yorkshire lass and I love my "gravy dinners"

[BrideXIII]

I don't have yorkies just with roast beef, I make them most weeks and have with mince, chops, stew, all kinds of roasts .......................... but perhaps that's cos I'm a yorkshire lass and I love my "gravy dinners"

we dont have em with just roasts either, i make big ones in sandwich cake tins, then fill them with meat veg and gravy, the boys love them like that.

[lynda66]

how do you get big ones to have a dent in the middle?? my yorkies always rise up ...... we love em plate sized filled with stuff ....... so i make little ones, but buy the big ones

[MaureenHall]

A really hot oven with really hot fat in the tin so that the batter starts to bubble up at the edges as soon as you pour it in

[lynda66]

i tried that ..... i use hot lard ...... but they always rise up in the middle

[Nicos]

i tried that ..... i use hot lard ...... but they always rise up in the middle

Soooo?????Who said what they're supposed to look like???
It's the taste which really matters!
I make lovely( quote OH and kids) big, soggy Yorkshires and my mother makes 'lovely'cardboard small ones.

Who is right?????

[Nicola.P]

I have the same problem with my 32yr old boyfriend. I am 24 and was bought up on pizzas and tinned spaghetti (although we did also have shepherds pie, normal pies etc that were homemade) but not alot of veg, though I did eat a hell of alot of fruit.

I want to experiment with different veg to get more variety in tastes and nutrition but getting my boyfriend to eat it is like mission impossible. He wouldn't even taste a parsnip yesterday!! He eats carrots, cabbage, green beans, golden delicious apples and bananas and that is it and even then only a small amount. The look i got when I served up swede!

[aylithuk]

I used to believe that if you grew up sat round the dinner meal with a kinda meat and two veg meal prepared by dad/mum you'd always eat that way.

Oh how wrong I am. I am 27 now but from about 21-25 I eat nothing that didn't come from a take away or something that could be fixed in 5 mins flat.

It's a lazy thing rather than ' I don't like veg' thing, well for me anyhow.

I always had meals at the table and had to ask to leave the table when I had finished or if I hadnt it would be a stand off between my mum and me as to how long I would take to eat my brussel sprouts!!! Nowadays I mash them into my lovely gravey to pretend I'd eaten them.

[BrideXIII]

Nichola.p

my bratz love swede now, didn't at first though, but i love it mashed with butter and pepper.

why not try something like bangers and mash, we have that with sweet potato mash.swede is delicious mashed with carrots, sweetens it up,and ordinary mash with apples added is great. if he likes cabbage, why not try something like romanesco brocolli/cauliflower, see if he will switch, its supposed to be REALLY good for you. we have fallen for it in a big way, will be growing some next year.

son2 wont eat parsnips unless i make parsnip crisps, dead easy, just use a veg peeler to get long strips, and leave them to dry out a little, then deep fry handfulls, YUMMY .

[yoanbob]

I think I would be confiscating everyones bank cards if they did that to me, money doesnt grow on trees, food does. ungratfull s**s

[Demeter]

Well, maybe not that strict!
* Chips & other takeaways are fried in the same oil as the fish/meat
* Pizzas have all manner of stuff in them, possibly fats of animal origin
* Cheese isn't vegetarian unless it says so on the label (made with rennet)
* Neither is most wine & beer
* Not all crisps are vegetarian either

Some chocolate isn't veggie either!
(I think it's something to do with how they produce the whey, involves animal innards I believe, spare me the details...)

[Two_Sheds]

A recipe for Yorkshires. I'll be brave and make some (best have a dress rehearsal before Xmas Day): How to make Yorkshire pudding from Delia Online

[Nicola.P]

I have learnt that I can sneak a range of veg into a stew or cassarole and tell him that it's just potatoe.