AIBU?
AIBU to not offer my daughter's friend something else for tea?
matrix11 · 07/07/2015 17:36
Daughter has a friend over for tea, done a simple tea of wraps with southern fried chicken, dips, bread sticks, grapes, grated cheese, nice selection of salad, nothing fancy but your basic salad, i am sat in the next room listening to her moan how she does not like anything there, apart from the cheese.
I am not going to get up and offer her anything else i am sick to the back teeth of having friends over who won't eat anything except for pizza, chips, crisps or chocolate.
I always try to do a nice simple but healthy tea, not just for mine but for friends too but they always moan, i avoid things like cottage pies, chilli etc when friends are round as i know its wasted, i would go mad if i knew my kids were ungrateful with what they were given, when i was growing i loved going to my friends and ate whatever was put in front of me.
It's not just a one off either, it is most of their friends?!
hhhhhhh · 07/07/2015 17:39
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rubyslippers · 07/07/2015 17:39
Actually I think YABU (a bit)
Loads of kids are fussy eaters - I would much rather ask the parent of their kid has any likes or dislikes and cater accordingly
The odd pizza is not a big deal IMO
Alternatively let her moan and her parents can feed her when she come home
Frusso · 07/07/2015 17:40
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LazyLouLou · 07/07/2015 17:44
As a kid I would have loved to be offered something like that.
I had one friend whose mum only ever offered beans on toast: I hate baked beans and don't like anything poured over toast, sit whatever it is next to the toast and I will be happy 
Another used to cook up lovely stuff, like liver and kidneys, mountain of creamy mash. Now I loved it, but my friend stopped inviting me: her mum made it as a special treat and my friend hated both.
Thinking about it I don't think parents ever get that right!
whenever I had friends over my mum would always ask to avoid this very issuematrix11 · 07/07/2015 17:51
She is 9, very nearly 10.
Her mum is lovely and i don't think she will be happy with what she has eaten, i will let her mum know when she comes to collect her, that she would not eat anything i laid out for tea.
I have just cleared the table and asked what she ate, said she was not hungry so ate a bit of grated cheese!
My youngest daughter had a friend last week who only ate a squeeze yoghurt and an orange, i told her mum too.
I just do not get it, are kids really that fussy now or just rude!
MrsDeVere · 07/07/2015 17:54
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Hulababy · 07/07/2015 17:54
Sounds like plenty of choice. I assume the wraps were DIY so she could have chosen to have just plain cheese if she didn't like the chicken.
I often did DIY type meals for dd and her friends. We called it a rainbow salad big plater of salad, veggies, olives, bread or wraps, some cheese, cold meat, etc. Most children could find something they liked.
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