I seriously doubt this product will be around for long. It’s not just a flaky idea, it’s a bad idea. If a child doesn’t *like* meat products, no big deal. There are plenty of alternatives, rather than forcing the issue via Bizarro World inventions and lying about what they are eating.

P.S. Don’t pretend liver is “steak,” either. Soon enough kids figure out that their parents are full of crap, without adding to the dooky overload unnecessarily.

Give them other types of protein to make up for it.

And maybe the problem is that you’re giving them shitty hamburger helper ground beef with the shit cooked out of it, and they aren’t eating it because it’s nasty.

So to get back below 200lbs I have had to add walking 2 miles everyday and severely reducing stuff like pasta.
If they can give this the consistency, texture and taste of pasta AND it is reasonably natural(no sucralose, splenda, transfats) I will buy it. And I suspect a large number of folks over 30 will buy it.

Seriously, though, as a kid I largely disliked recognizable meats (chicken, pork chops, ham, steak) but loved things that were sufficiently processed: salami, hot dogs, hamburgers (except for the congealed blood), bologna, bacon (sufficiently cripsed beyond recognition as meat), even “livermush” (which I think was the same thing as “scrapple”). Visible fat, cartilege, connective tissue, etc., were all revolting.

Anyone remember the movie “Parents”, where at the end, the grandparents finally get the kid to eat his meat?

Don’t worry they are just prepping our children for the day when cows can only be seen at a science museum and are on the endangered species list.

Soylent red for me!

What parent would deceive their child into eating some long dead corpse of a poor innocent animal thats gone through the playdough extruder? If your kid doesn’t want to eat meat, consider it a good thing. It is just ignorant and stupid to continue to condition your children to be carnivores, when the meat industry is such a detriment to the environment, not to mention meat is terrible for your health. There are many other sources of iron and protein that don’t involve death.

I still wouldn’t want to try meat noodles. Just the words look terrible.

the truth is this, kids will get away with whatever you let them. i grew up in a house where the dinner table wasn’t a restaurant and you ate what was served, or you didn’t eat. But i was also introduced to a lot of things, many of which i really enjoyed as a child until i grew up and found out what they were. Nowadays, I’ll eat just about anything, and good food is one of my very few vices, which is great that my wife’s a chef.

I think by giving kids too many options, particularly at the dinner table, you ensure that they’ll grow up to want hot dogs and macaroni every night and have no appreciation for the finer things. And this business of trying to fool kids is silly. Every has to do things they’re not fond of, and teaching a kid to eat well is a good place to learn this.

1- I’m sick of whiny, picky kids. Proper discipline is essential to avoiding this. Whiny, picky kids are so because you give them the choice to be whiny and picky! (I’m not talking about the kids who don’t like mustard or similar– you can order the food without it, etc.) If you have a kid who eats only chicken nuggets and fries, you got a problem. If you have a kid who loves carrot sticks and doesn’t like meat, what the hell are you whining about??

2- God forbid you can’t make your kid eat meat!! Please, no! No beans or nuts or tofu!!!! Not eggs or milk! Not delicious things with lower ecological impact! I wish my parents HAD fed me more stuff like that!

3- I’m not a vegetarian. Dinner was a double cheeseburger with bacon and avocado. Me likey meat. I find this excuse for a meat more vile than Spam and Vienna Sausages. I’ve not been poor enough to eat those in over 20 years, do you think I really want more mystery meat??

4- The inventors should be beaten. Don’t they realize that to get the kids to eat this, the adults have to also? I ain’t eating that!!!

5- Man up. you can’t force kids to do what you want. They don’t want meat, they can eat the veggies and sides. If they don’t want it, their very intelligent bodies are telling them that they don’t need it either. If they needed it, their body would make them want it. Obviously, no malnourishment, so let it ride.

6- Kids (much like cats) haven’t overcome their physical selves by years of programming. They don’t force themselves to eat something they hate. Something makes them feel that what’s in front of them is revolting. Maybe it makes them sick. Maybe canned peas are gross and should be banned (my vote!). Try things and give your kids options without letting the brats lead you around by the short and curlys. Of course, this means that the parents have to be adventurous, too. I think that’s the greater problem. (eat this cholesterol, sodium, and fat-laden food that’s relatively unpalatable, NOW!)

7- Perhaps the kids don’t like meat because you’re serving shi*ty meat. Or cooking it to death. Or not cooking it enough. Or drowning it in gross sauces. Maybe you suck as a cook. Maybe you suck as a grocery shopper. Knowing that, maybe you shouldn’t be feeding them meat noodles. Savvy?

haha, fair enough, you are probably right.(I particularly like the surface area observation) Although I like to remain optimistic about such things,… until horribly disappointed. I’d point to the innovation (by a clever human somewhere) that produced “regular” pasta, tofu and bread. And even if the first “corporate” attempt is highly flawed (with nitrates and other crap) there is always the possibility that some natural food focused individual somewhere will produce a more natural variant. So while I personally avoid stuff like nitrates, sucralose, splenda, d-tagatose and unlikely stuff like that I am a big fan of sushi, capsicum, pasta, pho and wasabi all crazy innovations of the past. So I would like to see what category this stuff lands into.

At least offer them some fake meats, which have most of the protein but none of the fat or gristle. Talking to your kids about their feelings might be nice too.

Or canned peas.

Lima beans….

Get a note from your guardian and we’ll take a trip up to see her. She makes a mean beef lasagna…which under these circumstances confuses the hell out of me.

I guess this makes Chef Boyardee the top meat scientist.

But looking back, I was seriously not nourished. Judging by the rest of my family I should be two or three inches taller.

Then I grew up and was exposed to fresh vegetables (I love spinach!) and non-artificial foods. Suddenly food is great and cooking is a passion. Vegetables–Amazing, who knew! Whole grain bread is wonderful!

The problem now is going home and, if I eat the chemical white-trash crap served, I’ll be ill. I once decided I’d make a dessert of my childhood–Jello-pudding poured into a bought piecrust, with coolwhip on top. I seriously gagged from the chemical taste.

Anyway, I have yet to meet a single youngster who won’t eat meat. There may be some, but I see a very limited market for this product.

And as for tricking a kid into eating something… If the kid’s anything like me, it won’t work. Someone sold me a piece of lasagna, claiming that it was vegetarian. After completely losing that and the rest of my lunch all over the floor, I realized that I probably should have asked “Beef or chicken?” instead of “Does it have meat in it?” as some people will sacrifice their integrity to make a sale. Since I got sick within two meters of their table, though, I guess that kind of killed their sales for a while. Honesty is still the best policy.