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AIBU?

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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 .

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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Pascha · 21/08/2012 20:22

If they had said "we don't eat healthy food" to me I would have asked why not to start a debate. I love a good debate over dinner. I wouldn't have offered anything else though.

Having said that, I would have checked they liked beef before I did it. The rest of it, tough.

Goldenbear · 21/08/2012 20:23

Sorry tonight - porcini mushroom lasagne - pretty fattening to be honest and now I have to wash the dishes. Wish I'd just gone to the deli for it!

Birdsgottafly · 21/08/2012 20:23

Lesson learnt, it's good manners to plan a meal that you would all like, next time.

I don't eat chickpeas or beef, other than that there isn't much else that i don't eat.

I wouldn't call beef healthy, in any way, tbh.

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OhTheConfusion · 21/08/2012 20:23

I did ask if they wanted anything in particular and friend had said "we eat anything" but I think she ment anything plain and simple.

Not boasting or being smug at all. We eat pizza too but we also eat 'real food' and it surprised me that other adults would be so set in their ways. Our meals vary from super cheap to a bit more expensive but they are mostly homemade and healthy.

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MarianForrester · 21/08/2012 20:24

I think if people come to dinner they should eat what is given to them and not moan.

charlottehere · 21/08/2012 20:24

I don't ever cook anything but junk type food for other people's children unless unexpected. then you get what your given I have learnt through trial and error. Fishfingers are normally failsafe.

WorraLiberty · 21/08/2012 20:26

I don't believe they don't eat anything healthy

I'm sure they probably just said that as they felt awkward

It's better than saying, "I'm sorry but I really don't like this"

By saying they don't eat anything healthy, they're putting the 'blame' on themselves perhaps...so as not to insult your DH.

MorrisZapp · 21/08/2012 20:27

Are fish fingers less healthy than beef?

MrsKeithRichards · 21/08/2012 20:27

McDonald's, KFC, pizza hut, Chinese, dominoes and burger king. Toby on a Sunday.

JockTamsonsBairns · 21/08/2012 20:27

The meal your DH prepared sounds lovely, however it's not something I would make for a visiting family with DC's tbh - chickpeas, peppers and cumin stew gives too much scope for someone not to like. If I have a family over to eat, I'm more likely to make something like spag bol / shepherds pie, or do a selection of bread / cheese / nice ham etc so there's bound to be something everyone likes somewhere on the table.

I'm surprised they said they don't eat anything healthy though . Have you never eaten with them before, or talked about meals with them? There is a happy medium between chickpea stew and pizza and chips.

charlottehere · 21/08/2012 20:28

I don't know Morris? What I do know is most DCs seem to like them!

NatashaBee · 21/08/2012 20:28

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OhTheConfusion · 21/08/2012 20:28

Yes the dad said 'we don't eat healthy food'! I met friend at swimming lessons and have been to hers for coffee but not had a meal together. DH suggested we all got together a few weeks ago at a swim tournament as all the kids seem to get on good etc.

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Makingmama · 21/08/2012 20:29

Sounds yummy I cook everything from fresh every night (have to due to ds's allergies and intolerances). Lots of chicken, salmon, pulses, brown rice and sweet potatoes with veggies of allsorts. We use a lot of cumin and turmeric especially with rice dishes. Also pasta sauces, meatballs, rissotto, omellette etc.

I dream of actually been able to cook something quick, easy like pizza for my kids but unfortunately that's not an option here.

NovackNGood · 21/08/2012 20:29

Well I nope you sent them all to the naughty step for one minute per age.

nemno · 21/08/2012 20:29

My family would have happily eaten that whatever age my children were (now adult), it sounds delicious. I would expect adults who have not said they don't like red meat to be happy to eat it too. But other children, no, I have learned that they are very unlikely to eat what we do.

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OhTheConfusion · 21/08/2012 20:31

Perhaps Worra.

Fish fingers all round next time!

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Ismeyes · 21/08/2012 20:31

I love the picture of you practically emptying the freezer to find the last forlorn freezer burnt pizza and a few chips left in the packet from when you last ate some pizza instead of real food, behind the batch cooked and labelled stews naturally.

AvonCallingBarksdale · 21/08/2012 20:31

I think your DH's meal sounds lovely - I'd have gobbled that up! I'm not sure if it was your intention, but you sound quite smug with Please tell me not everyone eats pizza and chips seven nights a week?!? There are many dishes inbetween what your DH made and pizza and chips!

StanleyAccrington · 21/08/2012 20:31

well, dd1 won't eat peppers, and dd2 won't eat beef. so my two, who are generally marvellous eaters, would definitely picked over what you served.

if we have guests, I ask what they like and what to avoid. Even then I'd still serve something fairly uncontroversial (roast dinner, lasagne and salad), ideally something that I can put into serving dishes, so people can help themselves to more of what they like, and less of what they don't.

BsshBossh · 21/08/2012 20:32

We eat a real mixture. DD (4) would eat the chickpea stew your DH made as we make similar middle eastern and Indian meals; she loves sushi too; and shepherd's pie. But she also loves Bird's Eye chicken dippers and McCain chips. Fruit is always her first choice for pudding/dessert but she'll rarely say no to a Chuppa Chupp either

Ismeyes · 21/08/2012 20:32

Oh the DH said it! He definately meant 'What is thisshit'

I do actually think it sounds like a lovely meal, if you don't mind sending some over.

Moln · 21/08/2012 20:33

It's an odd choice to be honest for people coming around with children. Can't tell you if mine would eat it, they've never had something like that served to them.

They would and do eat 'different' foods such as fish and prawn thai curry, but I would be suprised if other children didn't (not that I'd ever discover as I wouldn't make it for other children!)

Who said 'we don't eat healthy food'? the other children or the adults? Maybe the think chickpeas as exclusivly healthy!

sittinginthesun · 21/08/2012 20:33

We eat well (well, I like to think that we do), but if friends are coming over, I tend to check first.

We often have chilli at the weekend, but I would run it by a parent first, as not all children like hot food. We also have to watch our for allergies and intolerances, as we have a lot of family and friends with these.

BsshBossh · 21/08/2012 20:33

By the way, YABU and SMUG.

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