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Meat-free ‘meatball’

Mince, like Vegemite is quite polarising. Some fussy eaters love it and others do not.

Unfortunately, mince makes up a lot of simple, budget-friendly family meals.

This week one of the recipes in our fussy-friendly Meals Mapped Out menu (link here to see what this is all about: https://theconfidenteater.com/meals-mapped-out-weekly-plans/ ) was pork meatballs. If you have a child who happily eats beef mince, that’s a simple swap. But what if they struggle with mince?

I wanted to find an alternative so the children can still be involved but eating similarly to the rest of the family.

Most of the meat-free meatballs recipes use chickpeas, beans or ‘fake’ meat substitutes. None of these are generally going to rock for a fussy eater.

Instead, I looked for foods that do rock for fussy eaters and had a play creating something that could pass for a pork meatball but that wasn’t mince-based.

Woo hoo, I think I have an alternative! I quite happily scoffed the testers too …

It would even work with a tomato-based sauce and can easily be GF.

Recipe – Meat-free ‘meatball’

(This quantity makes one large meatball)
1 tbs crushed Weetbix/Rice Bubbles or Cornflakes
1 hpd tbs grated cheese
1 tsp whisked egg
1 hpd tsp breadcrumbs (GF for GF 😊)

Method

Place all the ingredients into a bowl and squeeze into meatball shapes with the hands

Can serve as is, mix with pasta or add sauce

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Judith, MA Cantab (Cambridge University), MSc Psychology (first-class honours) Massey University, is an AOTA accredited picky eating advisor and internationally certified nutritional therapist. She works with 100+ families every year resolving fussy eating and returning pleasure and joy to the meal table.

She is also mum to two boys and the author of Creating Confident Eaters and Winner Winner I Eat Dinner. Her dream is that every child is able to approach food from a place of safety and joy, not fear.

Learn more about Judith here: https://theconfidenteater.com/about/

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