Is tilapia a fancy meal for kids??

[Anonymous]

No, tilapia is not fancy meal. It became popular as stocks are being overfished and it is a good fish to farm - hence it's popularity.

[Anonymous]

Tilapia is a kind of fish that people who won't eat fish eat. Not fancy at all. And kind of gross when you look at its lack of nutritional value and bad farming practices. We buy it sometimes because its cheap and widely available, but not because its fancy.

I suppose it is fancier than chicken nuggets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our twins are one year old and since they started to self-feed a couple of months ago, we mix up what we give them so that they get a wide variety of tastes. One of the proteins that we mix in periodically is tilapia. I get it in individual portions at Sam's club and we just lightly steam it in the microwave. They like it. It's just one of the various proteins that we give them.

Who knew that we were giving one year old toddlers "fancy meals"?

Lightly steamed tilapia in the microwave?? Oh dear. Could anything be worse than that?

I'm the PP you're responding to. At one, our kids have only been eating solid foods for two months. We are easing them into textures and different foods without going overboard on the flavors. Every week or two, we add another food and they usually have 5 or 6 different foods on their tray. We're up to about a dozen different foods. And as we go along, we're slowly adding more flavors to the foods that they are trying out. This way we have better idea if they don't like the food/texture or the flavor. So far, they've been very adventurous in trying everything.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Thanks to all for confirming that this is not a bizzare thing to serve to the kids. I didn't realize it was a bottom feeder (but so are lobsters, right, and I love them!). Will do some reading on it, but if they kids will eat it, it is likely staying in our rotation!

[Anonymous]

We eat a lot of bottom feeders including catfish, crawfish, all of the bivalves and crabs. Most tilapia are farmed and not really bottom feeding.

[Anonymous]

My ten month old gobbled it up last night. It's cheap fish, mild, and I buy he fillets from Safeway with no bones. Not fancy stuff. what do your nieces and nephews eat?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our twins are one year old and since they started to self-feed a couple of months ago, we mix up what we give them so that they get a wide variety of tastes. One of the proteins that we mix in periodically is tilapia. I get it in individual portions at Sam's club and we just lightly steam it in the microwave. They like it. It's just one of the various proteins that we give them.

Who knew that we were giving one year old toddlers "fancy meals"?

Lightly steamed tilapia in the microwave?? Oh dear. Could anything be worse than that?

I'm the PP you're responding to. At one, our kids have only been eating solid foods for two months. We are easing them into textures and different foods without going overboard on the flavors. Every week or two, we add another food and they usually have 5 or 6 different foods on their tray. We're up to about a dozen different foods. And as we go along, we're slowly adding more flavors to the foods that they are trying out. This way we have better idea if they don't like the food/texture or the flavor. So far, they've been very adventurous in trying everything.

But why are you starting with gross things. Get a decent, wild fish, and stick it in a pan for a minute. Same amount of time, better flavor, more nutritious. Start your kids right!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our twins are one year old and since they started to self-feed a couple of months ago, we mix up what we give them so that they get a wide variety of tastes. One of the proteins that we mix in periodically is tilapia. I get it in individual portions at Sam's club and we just lightly steam it in the microwave. They like it. It's just one of the various proteins that we give them.

Who knew that we were giving one year old toddlers "fancy meals"?

Lightly steamed tilapia in the microwave?? Oh dear. Could anything be worse than that?

I'm the PP you're responding to. At one, our kids have only been eating solid foods for two months. We are easing them into textures and different foods without going overboard on the flavors. Every week or two, we add another food and they usually have 5 or 6 different foods on their tray. We're up to about a dozen different foods. And as we go along, we're slowly adding more flavors to the foods that they are trying out. This way we have better idea if they don't like the food/texture or the flavor. So far, they've been very adventurous in trying everything.

But why are you starting with gross things. Get a decent, wild fish, and stick it in a pan for a minute. Same amount of time, better flavor, more nutritious. Start your kids right!

Or at least steam it on the stove!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our twins are one year old and since they started to self-feed a couple of months ago, we mix up what we give them so that they get a wide variety of tastes. One of the proteins that we mix in periodically is tilapia. I get it in individual portions at Sam's club and we just lightly steam it in the microwave. They like it. It's just one of the various proteins that we give them.

Who knew that we were giving one year old toddlers "fancy meals"?

Lightly steamed tilapia in the microwave?? Oh dear. Could anything be worse than that?

I'm the PP you're responding to. At one, our kids have only been eating solid foods for two months. We are easing them into textures and different foods without going overboard on the flavors. Every week or two, we add another food and they usually have 5 or 6 different foods on their tray. We're up to about a dozen different foods. And as we go along, we're slowly adding more flavors to the foods that they are trying out. This way we have better idea if they don't like the food/texture or the flavor. So far, they've been very adventurous in trying everything.

But why are you starting with gross things. Get a decent, wild fish, and stick it in a pan for a minute. Same amount of time, better flavor, more nutritious. Start your kids right!

Or at least steam it on the stove!

Or just pan fry it with garlic and pepper.

[Anonymous]

OP, you should know better than to come on DCUM with a "veiled" boast.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Actually, I always thought tilapia are basically cheapy fish -the kind of fish used in immigrant cooking.

"Immigrant cooking"? You mean cooking by people from different cultures? You mean people who don't eat hamburgers and hotdogs all the time?

Is it food for poors?

[Anonymous]

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