xMandyDx
Determination is Key
Ok so for the past 4 weeks, I've been having one meal and everyone else is having another.
Our deep fat fryer broke during the week (blessing in disguise, methinks) and I've decided that from now on, we all eat the same food.
While that's great and simple in principle, it's not so easy to instigate.
Tonight, I tried to give the kids the same meal as me. I made a packet of savoury rice, and fried up some frozen Asian Stir-fry veg, sprinkled it with herbs, curry powder and an oxo.
My eleven year old sat at the breakfast bar for almost an hour, spreading it around on her plate, picking at it with her fingers, asking "what's this green/black/yellow/red stuff", and generally being a moanbag.
She said she hated it, and didn't want to eat it. After almost an hour she'd eaten maybe half of it and I let her off the hook with a warning of "nothing else is being made here, tonight".
Is it too much for me to expect everyone else to eat the foods I'm eating? Or should I continue to run a bloomin' cafeteria?!
Our deep fat fryer broke during the week (blessing in disguise, methinks) and I've decided that from now on, we all eat the same food.
While that's great and simple in principle, it's not so easy to instigate.
Tonight, I tried to give the kids the same meal as me. I made a packet of savoury rice, and fried up some frozen Asian Stir-fry veg, sprinkled it with herbs, curry powder and an oxo.
My eleven year old sat at the breakfast bar for almost an hour, spreading it around on her plate, picking at it with her fingers, asking "what's this green/black/yellow/red stuff", and generally being a moanbag.
She said she hated it, and didn't want to eat it. After almost an hour she'd eaten maybe half of it and I let her off the hook with a warning of "nothing else is being made here, tonight".
Is it too much for me to expect everyone else to eat the foods I'm eating? Or should I continue to run a bloomin' cafeteria?!