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to ask what you all eat as a family?

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OhTheConfusion · 21/08/2012 20:10

We had friends over for dinner tonight and DH cooked as I was working till 5.30 and he is a lucky so and so who is still on his summer holidays!

DH made us all (4 adults and 5 children... aged, 10, 9, 7, 6 and 11mths) chickpea, roast pepper, tomato and cumin stew with sliced rump of beef. Our three tucked in (including baby as made with no salt... only adult beef seasoned) whilst the others kind of poked their food and looked at us Confused.

DH asked if they were ok and they replied 'we don't eat healthy food'. I was so flustered I didn't know what to say.

Please tell me not everyone eats pizza and chips seven nights a week?!? (this is what I dug out the freezer for them).

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PicklesThePottyMouthedParrot · 21/08/2012 20:11

I eat it 14 times a week for lunch and dinner.

FartyMcTarty · 21/08/2012 20:13

Smug?!

MarianForrester · 21/08/2012 20:13

That sounds delicious. I would not have made then anything else: tough if they won't eat perfectly good food.

I do really love chickpeas tho Smile

GwennieF · 21/08/2012 20:14

We eat a bit of everything but it tends to be all home made (apart from the odd trip to Maccy D's - still have residual cravings from first pregnancy)

TrinityRhino · 21/08/2012 20:14

a lot of people are going to come on here and get narked at you for boasting btw

no we don't eat pizza and chips 7 days a week but neither do we make chickpea, pepper, tomato and cumin stew with sliced rump steak...

some people do eat pizza and chips or a variety of other processed 'unhealthy' food 7/14 days a week

are you really that surprised?

Eastpoint · 21/08/2012 20:14

Risotto, roast chicken, pasta with pesto, spaghetti carbonara, chicken & leek pie. Not sure off hand but those spring to mind instantly. DS 12 doesn't eat red meat & hasn't since he visited a farm as a 3 yr old. Luckily he still eats chicken & fish, despite being very good with chickens & a great snorkeller/diver.

wordfactory · 21/08/2012 20:14

Wouldn't it have been a. good manners and b. emminently sensible to check beforehand what food their DC ate.

It can't be news to you, that some DC are less adventurous than others...

Toughasoldboots · 21/08/2012 20:15

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TeaDr1nker · 21/08/2012 20:16

That sounds like a lovely meal that your DH took the time and trouble to make.

I admit although me and DP would eat that, DC wouldn't they don't like beef (texture more than taste i think).

All of us will happily have a roast chicken meal with potatoes etc/spag bol/shep pie.

I must admit though, when i have people over for dinner i do ask them what they dis/like, that way i know it will be eaten. Or i will say, i was thinking of making - is that ok?

cantspel · 21/08/2012 20:16

We dont like chickpeas and tomato so i would pick those bits out and eat the rest.

I make chicken, mushroom and okra curry today which all bar my youngest ate. he doesn't like curry so yess he had a pizza out the freezer.

WorraLiberty · 21/08/2012 20:16

no we don't eat pizza and chips 7 days a week but neither do we make chickpea, pepper, tomato and cumin stew with sliced rump steak

This ^

As host, I always check that the guests like what I'm going to cook for them

axure · 21/08/2012 20:16

KFC Bargain Bucket

McHappyPants2012 · 21/08/2012 20:17

varied. some nights we have pizza and wedges other night homemade soup other night stews ect.

MorrisZapp · 21/08/2012 20:17

They actually said 'we don't eat healthy food'?

Are these good friends of yours? Have you eaten at theirs before, or gone to restaurants together?

BikeMedalsRunningMedals · 21/08/2012 20:17

Food mostly, occasionally slugs and snails.

Toughasoldboots · 21/08/2012 20:18

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Pascha · 21/08/2012 20:18

I might make chickpea, pepper tomato and cumin stew with sliced rump steak if I were having guests over. Maybe not midweek, and maybe not expecting their children to be keen. Neither do we forsake pizza and the odd takeaway.

This week has seen lasagne, prawns and jacket spuds with salad, sausage risotto, some chickeny thing I can't remember exactly and, yes, pizza today.

TrinityRhino · 21/08/2012 20:19

Worra, I would eat it though and thoroughly enjoy it, I just don't actually cook it.

My kids wouldn't eat it though, I have very fussy kids. Well gecko might eat it, I didn't mess her up Grin

Ismeyes · 21/08/2012 20:19

I think it is good that these other children have been raised to be polite and state that they do not eat 'healthy food'. If they had shrieked 'What is this shit' then you would be justified in your pearl clutching.

Seriously though, you are thinking in rather black and white terms: if they do not eat your extremely healthy stew then they must therefore solely exist on pizza and chips is a bit of a leap isn't it.

Goldenbear · 21/08/2012 20:20

TBH I would love to give my family chips and pizza every night at the moment as I'm shattered with sleep deprivation. Also, I don't have a dishwasher and my DP seems to be at work either working or studying all day every day at the moment and I'm exhausted as it all falls on my shoulders as he's literally not here to help. I can cook but I'm going through a phase of hating all the faff of it. However, I feel guilty if I don't make a balanced meal so I do get the pots and pans out!

TrinityRhino · 21/08/2012 20:20

huge leap Ismeyes, I agree

BillComptonstrousers · 21/08/2012 20:20

It's sounds lovely, but there is no way I would make something like that for dinner if people were coming round with children. It's quite 'different', I would have stuck to a roast of some kind, or nice pasta and salad, knowing that most people would eat some, if not all, of it

WorraLiberty · 21/08/2012 20:21

I don't eat chickpeas or anything 'tomato stewish', Trinity

But my DH, DS1 and DS3 would definitely have liked it.

Softlysoftly · 21/08/2012 20:21

A mix of healthy and lazy, they actually said that??

These were kids yes not adults too?

ColourMeWithChaos · 21/08/2012 20:21

My kids would have struggled with that to be fair.

I find its easier to check what other people's kids like and don't before try come as some kids are less adventurous than others.

As a family we eat lots of pasta dishes - carbonara, Bolognese, lasagna, pesto- plainer meat stews, roast dinners, cottage pie, sausages and mash that sort of thing.