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[smallblueplanet]

Glad to hear these are tasty as I have just started some off in a tray in the greenhouse and they're just coming through. I plan on putting them in my raised beds. I chose them because they're small and I put environmesh over my raised beds at times.

That's how we grow them - needed something small (well there's only two of us) - to grow under a mesh 'cage'. They grow sideshoots after the main head too.

[charmaine]

A while back I made a meal for my aunt and her two daughters - the girls are pretty fussy eaters and I was told not to bother getting any mushrooms for the meal as they don't like them.

I used about twice as many mushrooms as usual and said nothing. The meal was absolutely wolfed down in near-silence... finished off to things like "that was really nice" and then quite strongly worded disbelief when I told them just how many mushrooms they'd eaten. I think they still "don't like" them, but they do, really.

I mention it because half the time people don't have a clue what they are eating and if it's made nicely they'll wolf down things they "don't like" and enjoy it.

Personally I'd grow the squash, feed it to the troops and say nothing until they've eaten it too many times in too many meals for them to go back to "not liking" it.

lol mine are like that with mushrooms 1 doesnt like them so the others said they dont but me and my o/h love them so i still put them in and they pick them out my daughter doesnt like the slimmey texture apparnatly yet the boys who "dont like them" like spicy mushrooms or ones from the chinease ???

[organic]

I've got a freind who loves the flavour of mushrooms but can't stand the texture.
When I found out she doesn't like them I asked if there was anything else I could replace them with - she asked me not to. If I leave them in the food takes on the flavour and she can pick them out with ease.

I'm going to be VERY old fashioned with my kids when I have some. No desert until they've finished the lot.

Once upon a time I was served the same meal 2 (or was it 3?) days on the run because I wouldn't eat it. I gave in before my folks did. I'm a very unfussy eater now.

[charmaine]

I've got a freind who loves the flavour of mushrooms but can't stand the texture.
When I found out she doesn't like them I asked if there was anything else I could replace them with - she asked me not to. If I leave them in the food takes on the flavour and she can pick them out with ease.

I'm going to be VERY old fashioned with my kids when I have some. No desert until they've finished the lot.

Once upon a time I was served the same meal 2 (or was it 3?) days on the run because I wouldn't eat it. I gave in before my folks did. I'm a very unfussy eater now.

lol mine arnt realy fussy they will at least try things before they say "they dont like it " and if they dont eat most of there food they get nothing else i used to say they had to eat everything but now a days they tell you not to do that with the obiesty thing but to be honest my kids dont stop eating it drives me mad. my o/h sean and i were only joking about the other day that the kids would probably "harvest" everything and eat it before its cooked ect. they love raw runner beans,onions they will even eat a spud raw . they tend to get bored with food before they say they dont like it ie some times if we have peas one would rather have sweetcorn or carrots. the one rule i always have had is i never cook more than one meal at time we all it the same some times with a slight change as above but thats it. my sister in-law will cook up to 5 different meals at a meal time in there house, i have not got the time for that nonsense lol

[charmaine]

we will be lucky to get to the toms or the strawberies when they sart to grow lol

[organic]

There's no way I'll cook more than 1 meal. I might make an exception if one of the future rugrats becomes a vegetarian (before we met, my girlfriend and I were both vegetarian at one point - thankfully we're both in remission now though) in that case I might accomodate, but then might also take it as the perfect opportunity to get the kids doing the cooking.

As for obesity - I'll be hounding them out of the house to do things. They can eat as much as they like as long as they are out and using it rather than sat on their backsides doing nothing.

"Get outside and don't come back until you've hurt yourself."


I can understand raw food - though I think I'd draw the line at spuds. They are SO much better when cooked.


Maybe you should get a fruit cage - but instead of netting to keep the birds out, make it from chain link fencing and padlock the gate to keep the kids out!