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?

@Lilaclove1 i do the ‘cooking’ but they write down whatever they fancy the week before so I can make and freeze/reheat whatever I need. I only have 3 children and only host for our family.

This year
dd1 is having Yorkshire puddings and plain pasta with carrots and broccoli

dd2 is having pigs in blankets in a giant Yorkshire pudding with mashed potato, peas and sweetcorn

dh and I fancy a full Christmas dinner so we’re making the works, nobody eats dessert but I bought a variety of cheese and crackers too!

ds is 4 and would like garlic bread, mashed potato, sweetcorn, broccoli and cheese. Its all worked out fairly normal this year!

Surely meatballs and stuffing balls are pretty much the same thing along with gravy (turkey), mash and carrots that's the basis of a Christmas dinner. Spinach is the only outlier and that's hardly difficult.

Nope, I'd explain that FC can't bring food as well as toys as it would get cold so parents do the cooking. Then make the meatballs for a Christmas eve meal.