Nov 22 2008
Dinner with Kids
I thought it would get easier to make meals as the kids got older but it seems to be the opposite. No matter what I make there is always someone who doesn’t want or like what I’m making.
Some nights I’ll make frozen chicken nuggets and fries (on those quick dinner nights) and I’ll get complaints. Strangely enough, it’s often “Do I have to eat the fries?”. I swear I have the only kids who could care less about french fries.
Potatoes are always a battle. Some like mashed potatoes, some don’t. One likes baked potatoes, the rest don’t. Then there are the above mentioned fries and tater tots, one hates them, the other 2 love them.
Two of them will eat soup, the other won’t. She’d rather have a grilled cheesse but the others don’t want it. One likes hot dogs, the other 2 prefer cheeseburgers.
One will eat just about any seafood. Another will eat fried seafood as long as it comes off my plate (but not the fries of course). One likes pasta with sauce, one will eat it with butter and one would rather have SpaghettiOs.
Do you get the drift of this. I can’t think of any meal that I can make that everyone loves and no one complains about anything. I’m not making anything funky like brussel sprouts and cedar plank salmon. Then again, the three of them can’t agree on anything.
