to not make her a seperate meal?

[fairy1303]

DSD lives here full time.

She is currently having a massive meltdown because I have told her we are having... shock horror... CASSEROLE for dinner.

We have this about once a month, it's cheap, easy, healthy.
I know she doesn't like it.

I have said that is what we are having, no I won't make a seperate meal.
She is telling me not to serve her any. She doesn't want it. She is crying because she 'isn't allowed any dinner'. She has phoned MIL to tell her. She is about to phone my mum to tell her too. She has phoned daddy at work to tell him.

Now, I'm pretty strict. I'm also aware of the wsm stuff.

AIBU to say: that is what we are having. There will be nothing else?

Or am I being too hard on her?

She's 8

Quoting fail. That last bit should have said wuldric it's late

At 4 years old my DC would also have chosen the healthy options because that's all they would've known!

At 4 they would all eat bananas. But now only DS2 eats them. Their tastes have changed.

But of course they'll all eat banana bread

I often cook meals that I know not everyone loves. I am cooking for 5 individuals with differing palates.

DD knows that sometimes she will have to eat mac and cheese as its DS1s favourite and DS1 knows he won't enjoy every meal because he is fussy. He is praised for trying.

It's not imposing will/evil stepmother it's feeding your family and sometimes it's bloody difficult, but we have to do it 3x a day 365 days a year

It is precisely because that meal sounds like dog shit on a plate that I am objecting. Seriously, I have travelled a lot (eaten sheep's eyes and dog) but my stomach would turn at that planned meal.

There is no cooking involved to it. The 8 year old would have done better left to her own devices. At least she wouldn't have bunged baked beans together with lentils and chickpeas random veg and veg stock. That's just not cooking!!

I cook, they eat.

If they don't like it, they don't eat.

I don't have time for anything else.

They don't know there is any other option so there is never any whining.

Eating dog vs lentils and baked beans I think in reality most would take the beans

Well, the idea of that casserole doesn't exactly make my mouth water, either (especially the "whatever get there is" part) and I am not fussy! I think a lot of people see casseroles as some sort of dumping ground for everything. Not everything goes together..

For example, my DF quite often makes different "casseroles" like this. I never particularly like them, but will eat them. I only make casseroles with recipes, not according to whatever I have in my cupboards to use up.

"get" is "veg" ..

that meal doesn't sound like dog shit to me. Whats wrong with tinned chickpeas by the way? (no, seriously.. I have only ever had tinned)

The meal does sound heavy but I am sure it tasted alright. I don't see how its not cooking either?

I do clear-the-fridge-of-leftover-veg casseroles often.

I kind of thought that was the point of casserole?

But toys that's how the recipes come together!

My BIL is a chef and that's what he does, he combines ingredients, cooks and there you have a new recipe. Trial and error.

It's not, as far as I know, Cocacola! But I could make a mean slop "casserole" out of all my leftovers - probably won't be that great, though.

Chefs have some basic knowledge about what goes together and what doesn't. Normal home cooks don't have the same training and skills.

I can't see what relevance you traveling a lot has to this discussion. You sound fussy and entitled. No doubt your child will be too, sadly. So what if the op hasn't spent hours over it? Really? Its food, its cheap, its nutritious, get over yourself.

I don't mind the occasional random casserole. Beats the shit out of throwing the food away. I hate waste.

Normal home cooks do have common sense and tastebuds though

I don't throw food away. I just don't think that everything goes together. I am also very good at calculating how much we will eat. Most of the time there are no leftovers.

Here's a recipe for a http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/chickencasserole_85719. Never been turned down.

As far as I can see, the OP opened three tins (one tin of tomatoes, one tin of baked beans, or perhaps two, who knows, perhaps she went wild! and one tin of chickpeas). She then threw in some vegetable sausage and a cube of vegetable stock. Total time 1.5 minutes.

This is not cooking and I guarantee that it would taste disgusting. More power to the 8 year old's elbow, I say! But I still say get her to look up recipes and seriously get her cooking.

Not everyone, apparently? Baked beans with chopped tomatoes, lentils, chickpeas, cheese, veggie sausages and random veg in a casserole? No cook would dream of making that combo.

Oh well, you stick to your sheeps eyes and family pets for tea then wuldric. And I'll stick to my casserole.

I didn't mention the brain soup, did I? That was in Kurdistan.

I am broad minded, honestly. But not broad minded enough to accept that opening 3 tins of random things and bunging them together constitutes anything that anyone in this world would actually want to eat.

It's a very interesting and usual combination. Like something my mother would make, but weirder. Reminds me of Woman's Weekly recipes. They always had a tin of beans in.

Wuldric: No, it's us being really fussy and contrary that is. All probably because we are bitter for not receiving our push presents

It doesn't make you interesting or special just because you've eaten those things wuldric. Seriously, it just doesn't

Not sure what push presents have to do with this? Are you on the wrong thread?

Well, I think it does, Brian. I have to say, I draw the line at brains and sheep's eyes, even though they're a delicacy in my mum's country. She sort of likes the brains, but does't eat eyes. She's a lousy Greek.