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AIBU?

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Why can't my DC eat what I bloody cook!!

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MamaInNeed · 31/03/2020 22:06

So we're having to "ration" food, and time spent preparing it, because DH and I are having to work more (key workers). We can't always get the foods our teenage DCs like, and we don't have time to cook 2 or 3 different meals a night. They can't cook without supervision, so they have to wait for us to be available. I made a shepherd's pie tonight. My 15yo ate some of the potato and the vegetables on the side. My 12yo picked at the potato and refused everything else. I told them to eat it or go hungry. They both decided to go hungry. I've got a casserole for tomorrow, I doubt they'll eat that either. They literally eat rice, pasta and vegetarian freezer foods. They refuse almost all meat, even chicken nuggets. They haven't eaten fish in 8 years. They don't like dairy. It can't have too much sugar. AIBU to want them to eat like normal people? They're living off fruit, vegetables and carbs. No protein at all. WTF do I do??

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LimescaleCowboy · 03/04/2020 07:21

At 15, I'd have been happy to live on cheese on toast and beans on toast rather than my mother's beef-mince-based dinners of doom.

I still don't eat beef.

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