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To all eat the same meals!!!

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MumWhoHatesCooking · 05/09/2025 18:13

So we have three boys (8,10,12) and we may have one meal a week that they ALL eat (for instance spaghetti bolognaise) but every.other.night I am cooking a different meal as one doesn’t like noodles for instance the other doesn’t eat beans, one only eats fries, the other two can’t stand them, one likes burgers the other likes fish fingers (but only on a certain day ya’know!)

And then one day they like something and the next week they don’t!?

Ive tried the whole you’ll eat what I’ve made and nothing else ….. they then don’t eat !

The kids are being unreasonable right?
(please tell me they’re being unreasonable, from a very frustrated mother, who hates cooking dinner and then they don’t eat it 😭)

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tryingtobesogood · 05/09/2025 18:18

Stop doing it. Just don’t. They are all old enough to understand that this is a no. These do not sound like likes and dislikes but preferences. It’s time they learned that you can’t always have what they want. Personally I would serve them spag bol 7 times a week.
how can you like spaghetti but not noodles 🤦‍♀️