Food Which Has Been Prepared For My Offspring Which They Have Refused To Eat This Week

[pegkerr]

1. homemade beef stew

2. Shepherd's Pie (sorry, naomikritzer; yes, they are ingrates)

3. Squash, stuffed with a cottage cheese/parmesan cheese/apple mixture

4. Crescent rolls, topped with cheese/tomato/bell pepper mixture

Comments

[aome.livejournal.com]

I'm not a big squash fan (aside from zucchini in modest doses), but the rest sounds fabulous. I thought shepherd's pie was pretty kid-friendly - hamburger, mashed potatoes ... what's not to like?

We haven't yet gotten to the "You know where the PB is" stage. Right now, it's "You don't have to eat it, but this is what dinner is. Take it or leave it." Even when the response is "leave it" (which Two did tonight), no one has died yet. But your response is perfectly adequate - at least then they get protein and don't whine at you that they're hungry. And they do the work.

Come to our house tomorrow - crock pot potato/ham/spinach soup with grated swiss.

[callunav.livejournal.com]

At a wild guess, what's not to like *might* be that all the food is together. At least younger kids tend to be pretty conservative, in my experience, about wanting the different elements of food kept distinct from each other. I remember vehemently lobbying to have, for instance, my rice kept separate from the sauce-laden dish that was meant to be served over it. I ate both, but I didn't want them touching each other. And I think I might have felt the same about something like shepherd's pie, though I don't really know.

Which isn't, by the way, Peg, a criticism of the dish or your serving of it. At all. It's only that I like to poke at possible reasons, even for EXTREMELY ANNOYING BEHAVIOR. Ahem. Now that I'm cooking more often, myself, I can start to imagine cooking for a family on a regular basis, and I don't think I'd be pleased at *all* to have efforts rejected, no matter how well I could speculate about the underlying causes.

[serenya-loreden.livejournal.com]

That's quite likely -- I too recall a long insistence on food being kept completely separate. I got over it eventually ;o

[porcinea.livejournal.com]

My sister's never gotten over it. She still hates for her food to touch. And will carefully separate it before eating.

[callunav.livejournal.com]

Well, you know, I still keep my rice separate from the food that's supposed to be served on it, quite often, especially if I'm eating Chinese food. I eat lots of other foods together, but not that.

What would we be without our foibles? The important bit is that as we grow up, we no longer expect someone else to go to extra effort to enable them.

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

I remember very carefully segregating all my food onto different portions of the plate when I was a kid. It drove my father nuts. I was also a terribly picky eater (you remember that old George Carline about "'He's a fussy eater, a fussy eater' -- that's a euphemism for BIG PAIN IN THE ASS"? That was me. I have improved since then. Some).