Daughter’s Culinary Christmas List

[PinkTigerLily]

Dd (6) asks Santa for specific Christmas dinner items every year. I mean out of the box stuff - spinach, pasta, meatballs…

She is well fed with homemade dinners every evening, made from fresh British produce with typically 3-4 fruits/vegetables, 3 days vegetarian, 3 days meat/fish, and then a (homemade) pie or a roast on Sundays. Minimal butter/oil (2-3 tbsp per meal). Lunches from school catering, so she’s getting fairly round meals too. She’ll eat everything. I guess my point is, she’s not starving or deprived of fresh, healthy foods. She’ll ask for specific meals now and again if we haven’t had it in a while (she loves mushrooms, for example).

She’s not asking Santa for cr@p. She’s laying out her ideal Christmas dinner. See attached photo. I’m just… 😐The cheek of it! I’m the one who cooks it! Not Santa! Nor does he order in the groceries! I’m not gonna say anything to her though… She’s still young, right?

Anyone else’s kid(s) do this? Or did they ever at some point? If so, when or how did it stop?

At least we know the op uses only a little butter and oil in her cooking

Your post makes no sense.

I have an auntie who serves spinach dip and little meatballs with cocktail sticks every chirsmtas so they actually feel very festive to me lol

😐The cheek of it! I’m the one who cooks it! Not Santa! Nor does he order in the groceries!

presumably you / partner also buy the gifts? Do you feel the same way about her thinking Santa gets them?

ps won’t she see you cooking the meatballs and…serving them?

Lmao I don’t resent her, let’s be clear about that. I’m worried she’ll be disappointed in Santa if she doesn’t get spinach for Christmas 😂

Is this some kind of weird humblebrag post?

We get it, you cook healthily from scratch, and your child likes spinach.

I think she sees it as more of a manifestation. Like, she knows I cook it. Yet still puts it on the list.

She needs to learn she doesn't get everything she wants ever, whether this is presents from Father Christmas or demanding to sit in certain chairs, have control of the tv remote all the time etc.

You cannot make her happy all the time, it is impossible otherwise they would never do any work in school they don't want to do. I would make the Christmas Day meal you want and if you want to accommodate the list items do it for a different day.

I think the op was bragging about her daughter wanting spinach?

very very very odd

Does it have to be cooked? Could you wrap up a bag of spinach and pack of meatballs just before opening gifts? 😂
alrhough I think it’s kind of cute requesting such randomness to go with chrismtas dinner. You could make something ahead of time and freeze it so it’s not extra hassle on the day.
my family have dishes at Christmas that people probably see as weird that were asked for one year and then just stuck forever hahah

I mean… what’s your actual issue here? Is it that you don’t want to cook it? You’re worrying about why she’s asked? What’s the actual problem?

Sorry if anyone feels this way. I get where you’re coming from. I’m just highlighting the abnormal stuff. I’d be saying the same if it were chips.

Did your daughter write that? Who wrote the but above, surely not the 18mnth old??

You don’t need to apologise OP 🤭

you think I might be upset that my 16 year old isn’t keen on spinach?!

If you want to run with it (and don’t have too much else to do) you could wrap the ingredients in Santa style paper and he could tell her to look in the fridge….
It is completely bonkers but then the whole Santa concept is mad when you think about it and that’s the fun of it all IMO!

Op perhaps you can put us out of our misery and clarify exactly what the point of your op is?

She’s six not 1.5 months, as stated in original post. She wrote the above and I wrote it clearer below “for Santa.”

She did clarify, in her reply to me at 16.16.

I think it’s actually quite cute, but if you don’t want to do it just say ‘Santa doesn’t bring Christmas dinner’. The good thing about Santa is that it’s all bollocks so you can say what you want!

So you thought daughter requesting a specific meal just for her every year on Christmas Day was a bit odd?

Yes op, it is.

So use this year as time to change it. She picks her meal on first day of new term.

Otherwise your youngest will be getting in her requests next year!

I don't know many kids who woild nick a bit of celery or eat the dreaded sprout 😂
I find this thread a wee bit weird and boasty

I honestly don’t know why people are being hostile off the bat. It’s just whimsy. If it bothers you, don’t engage with it?

Op wanted to let us know her child was eating celery

Dude that’s what’s so crazy! I never encountered it before! FYI it was available to be stolen because my daughter didn’t want the damn celery!

Idk what people on Mumsnet are supposed to talk about if not the actions of their children.