What to do with Tilapia.

My boys do not like fishy-tasting fish, so I've stuck with Tilapia and found this great, sweet recipe on Allrecipes.com

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/coconut-tilapia-with-apricot-dipping-sauce/detail.aspx

They love it and ask for fish now.

I am so glad you are a parent that has decided to act like a parent and make nutritional decisions for your child!!! I don't know about hiding it, but if she likes other fish my favorite way to cook tilapia is on the grill wrapped in foil with some bacon and onion...bacon and tilapia are just heaven together...you can do it in the oven too, or in a pan, but on the grill tastes the very best!

Because when you are a parent you are responsible for seeing your children get appropriate nutrition, even if they don't want to cooperate with the process.

And to those saying Tilapia is crap fish (LOL not sure what defines a crap fish)...

...You can even have a fish farm in your backyard...

Unless you are farming the tilapia in your own backyard, I'm not sure you would want to eat it... One of the companies with whom my husband does business also runs a tilapia farm... And the reason they are called "crap fish" is because that is what they eat.

personally, I don't see the issue... I mean she want to know if it is a mind trick or a real allergy. If a child had it there way, their food would be nothing but cookies, ice cream, Katchup or cheese drenched. If a real allergy then it is something, they need to see a doctor about, cause a lot of foods are made with fish bits. And if it is a mind trick, would it be fair to have the parent make 2-3 meals, each meal, just because a spoiled brat? Sorry, I side with the mom here, just with the warning to have the phone ready just in case.

As for me, I normally just have tilapia with lemon salt and chives with baked french fries. Apologize for not being more helpful.

Because when you are a parent you are responsible for seeing your children get appropriate nutrition, even if they don't want to cooperate with the process.

In what universe do children suffer from malnutrition because they don't eat tilapia? Is it really that difficult as a parent to find foods that are nutritious for your children AND they like? It is not a parent's job to avoid being inconvenienced by the existence of their kids. You sound like my parents, who also tried to force me to eat cooked carrots when they knew I hated them but I would eat a whole bag of raw carrots, and they were coming out of our fridge as raw carrots.

As for the people who don't understand what I was saying above, for some of us (or at the very least me) putting food in my mouth, chewing it, and swallowing it is a very intimate thing. Having someone else seize control over that is as bad as someone else forcibly taking control over what goes in or out of my butt. Maybe you don't feel that way (and if so I'm sorry that you miss out on much of the real joy of eating) but some of us do. It doesn't mean because we're all different that there must be something wrong with everyone who isn't like you and it's your job to force, trick, or manipulate your kids into being just like you in every way including food preferences. Is it really that hard to see how it's similar (in kind but not degree) to trying to manipulate your child's sexual preference?

That is a big part of why I was such a picky eater as a kid, combined with the fact that I was extremely sensitive to the bitter elements in most green veggies, it was the taste equivalent of looking at the sun. My body reacted to much of that stuff (peas, gren beans, lima beans) like it was poison, with a gag reflex. Somehow I managed to survive a childhood of not eating piles of vegetables without being malnourished. Somehow my kids are also doing just fine without eating a bunch of that stuff too. They don't eat cake and cookies and crap, either. To suggest those are the only two options is a false dichotomy.

goes in or out of my butt.

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Just remember; do not make eye contact with him.....

What would be so bad about talking to your kid and treating her like a human being? Do you really think that little of her? Obviously she is old enough to use her experience to infer an abstract causal connection between tilapia and getting sick. Would it really hurt you, or her, to say, "I realize that you think tilapia is what made you sick, but it's also possible that it was a coincidence and something else actually made you sick, and I think you might miss out on some good foods by not eating it. It's possible to find out by, on two different days, giving you two different dishes. One with tilapia, the other with a different type of fish. You might get sick again if tilapia really is the cause, but then at least you'd know for sure. And if it isn't, then you could enjoy other foods that you might have missed." (Then you would give her the non-tilapia first and see if there's a placebo effect, and if there is, show her that she really didn't eat tilapia and you could also break *that* spell in the process without risking making everything even worse and giving her issues she could carry into her twenties.)

You could also use the opportunity, if she is actually that young, to explain with examples how and why the whole idea that, "it followed therefore it is because of" is a flawed way of thinking and use the whole thing as a positive learning experience.

Hey I just read a "scientific" article saying that eating tilapia is worse than bacon! So theres your answer hide bacon in her food. She will love you for all the bacony goodness you bestow upon her.

MMMMMM bacon the new tilapia. Bacon is the other white meat, right?

http://www.draxe.com/eating-tilapia-is-worse-than-eating-bacon/

I make a killer sauce with coconut milk, lime and curry. I then broil the Tilapia in the oven with salt, pepper and olive oil.
When the tilapia is cooked I spoon the sauce on it and serve with either spinach or asparagus. Yum. Even my kids love it.

this sounds amazing!!!! trying it asap, thanks!