Our first meal eating Quorn together, went ok! It was lovely to eat as a family and Amy and I loved the food. It was mainly my eldest that didn’t seem to adapt very well.

It doesn’t really matter what the food tastes like or what affect it has on your health or the environment. If it doesn’t look quite right, my eldest won’t touch it. Unless it’s beige and covered in tomato sauce! My little girl on the other hand, loves her vegetables and she always has a colourful plate. She’ll quite happily sit down and eat a bowl of carrots and peas covered in gravy. They’re like chalk and cheese my two.

We’ve eaten together a few times as a family lately and it’s been great. If you guys don’t already do it, try it! It gives you all an excellent chance to share a story from your day. Amy has a few things going on at work, my little boy got a hole-in-one on Nintendo Wii golf and my little girl got a well done sticker from school.

What Could Go Wrong?

The Quorn range really is vast. I was pleasantly surprised and I’ve already planned the next meal. Someone recommended the chicken pieces to me on my Instagram page so I’m going to suggest to Amy that we make a curry. We love home-made curries as they’re great tasting and healthy. For this weeks meal, we decided to stay safe and make a lovely sausage dinner. Both of our kids love sausages, so what could go wrong?

We decided to let the kids eat together. It was a Saturday and we like to chill out with a beer or two while making our evening meal. We did make a sausage and egg breakfast muffin the next morning though which went down a treat! The kids ate the sausages no problem. They even asked for more. The Quorn sausages were definitely a hit in our house that week.

The nutritional information (per sausage) of the Quorn ‘Best of British’ include 8.3g of protein, 3.0g of fibre, 1.1g of salt, 0.4g of saturated fat, 5.8g of carbs (1.7g of which sugars) and energy 477kJ / 114kcal.

Here’s our breakfast muffin, not bad eh? We both thought the sausages were nice and have agreed we’ll buy them again in the future. If you’re wondering why we’re eating Quorn and you missed my first post, our plan is to replace one family meal which would normally contain meat, with a Quorn alternative. Producing the meat we eat every year emits more Greenhouse Gases than all the vehicles on earth put together. This is one of the main reasons we’re taking on this challenge.

In my next post, I’ll be talking about protein and what role this has. I’ll hopefully have the Jermain Defoe footage available too. I had the pleasure of asking him a few questions about what he eats and who does the best chips? Bournemouth or the North East?

Thanks for tuning in,

*Disclaimer: This was a collaborative post with Quorn. All words and opinions are my own.