He’s normally pretty reasonable and at times can be very empathetic to how somebody might be feeling.
The situation is like many people, we’re not seeing our weekly food budget go as far as it used to. DS loves chilli and I’ve seen the quality of mince I can afford really go down. I talked to him and our other two children about how for nutritional reasons and also budget, I’m going to start substituting mince for lentils in things like chilli and shepherds pie.
He’s just refusing to try it - it’s not even finished cooking yet. I’ve used the exact same seasoning and tomato’s and everything is exactly the same. I got really disheartened and privately sat him down away from the younger two, and explained how things are more expensive at the moment and the quality of food we were getting wasn’t great and I wanted to make sure I was feeding my family healthy options that I could afford. But his reaction was really getting me down and I needed him to please just open his mind and give it a try. That I was trying my best to keep the things he loves - he LOVES chilli - but I was running out of options.
I know he’s just a kid and they can get funny about changes but just…I feel so down about everything. Like so many people, it feels like we’re just existing, not actually living. Everything is so hard.