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Why the F*** do I waste my time???

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LadyTophamHatt · 20/09/2005 17:16

Please remind me of this day when I think about wasting hours of my time preparing a healthy, wholesome dinner for my DS's.
I did a beef casserole. Knowing it would be hot I took it out of the over at 3:30pm and they are still moaning.

DS1-"I'm not eating that, it's a Xmas dinner"

Ds2- will only eat the meat and looking at his bowl as eating maybe a 3rd of what I gave him.

Ds3-Has eaten bowls of it before but has just spattered it around the dining room.

stitch, please remind me of your sandwiches for dinner when I concider doing some nice again.
Tomorrow they will be having fish fingers and chips..and the day after...and after that too

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Fio2 · 20/09/2005 17:18

tell me about it, drives me mad

flamesparrow · 20/09/2005 17:18

I'd eat your beef casserole

I'm intrigued by it being Xmas dinner though...

ggglimpopo · 20/09/2005 17:21

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LadyTophamHatt · 20/09/2005 17:22

flamesparrw, cold weather=xmas=beef casserole in ds's mind and it's sunny out side.

it was bloody lovely BTW.

I'll show the pot to Dh later, he's always banging on at me to cook more veg and stuff for them. Lets just say he's got an awful lot of leaft overs to eat.

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ScummyMummy · 20/09/2005 17:22

I've been there, believe me, lth. Lots of sympathy. Felt jealous of the dinner ladies today when son told me he'd eaten all his spaghetti bolognaise for lunch today. Turned his wee nose right up at my spag bol last week, the little git!

Gobbledigook · 20/09/2005 17:23

Mine are having fish fingers, McCain chips (the ones that are just potato and sunflower oil) and peas. At least I know they'll eat it.

Last night it was pasta with a lovingly prepared sauce of mince, bacon, carrot, celery, herbs and a dash of red wine. All went in the bin.

Like you, I really don't know why I bother.

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LadyTophamHatt · 20/09/2005 17:23

left overs even

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twirlaround · 20/09/2005 17:23

to put it in perspective you are lucky compared to me - mine will eat the batter from a fish finger and chips - and only ever about 2 other food substances in the known universe

flamesparrow · 20/09/2005 17:27

Ahhh, with you on Xmas now! Had visions of an interesting Christmas day round your house "But why can't we have turkey mummy?"

I'm a tough witch too GGG... Luckily I only have me, Dh and DD, but its pretty much always been a case that we eat what I want or go hungry

DD is too young to argue, and DH knows that he's more than welcome to cook us all something if he fancies something in particular.

He must be so proud to have me as a loving wife!

suzywong · 20/09/2005 17:29

F* knows here too

ds2 is a skinny little (7cker and only eats things coated in chocolate or drenched in hydrogonised vegateble fat, ie biscuits and crackers. ANd I used to cook for a living, it's gutting it really is.

and an older onw who pickes the shredded herbs out of super noodles

bloody cheek I call it

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LadyTophamHatt · 20/09/2005 17:36

To be really honest I feel like screaming "FUCK OFF OR SIT THERE AND FUCKING EAT" at them at the moment if Dh was here I'd be gone elsewhere by now.

Instead my keyboard is taking a beating as I type.

I suspect my neighbours think I have killed them.

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Pollyanna · 20/09/2005 17:38

I have picked up a tip from a book (How to be a Better Parent) - you cook 2 courses, the first course is things you want them to eat. You just give them a tiny amount, but they can't move onto the second course until they finish the first course. The second course is things they like to eat. Apparently if you repeat the first course things enough they will eat them as main courses eventually, the theory being that is isn't that they dislike the food, it is just a habit that needs breaking. I have been trying it and have got mine to eat rice (they wouldn't eat it at all) and salmon so far, oh and Pesto too. It is a pain cooking 2 meals, but then me and dh eat the "taster" course later on.

IlanaK · 20/09/2005 17:39

Its interesting - I was like this with ds1. I thought he was fussy and pulled my hair out when he wouldn't eat things I lovingly prepared. When ds2 was born, I was determined not to have another fussy one. When he was around 11 months old, we all started eating together as a family. And I cooked only one meal. He eats fine - no problems at all. Ds1 has had to come into line. And suprisingly, he has. He would only eat plain pasta before. Now, when we have bolognaise, he eats it. He is less fussy than I thought. In hindsight, I think I pandered to it slightly by giving him only the things I knew he would eat without complaint. We had a lot of chicken nuggets in those days. Now there is never one in our house.

stitch · 20/09/2005 17:39

lth, NO MORE COOKING for you
give yourself a break , and get your nails done.

i think my kids have gotten the message, slightly, coz for the last two days they have been eating what i gave them. ok, so i was sat in front of the tv spooning it into their mouths yesterday, but it was rice and curry.

just give yourself a break for a while. hunger will make them eat. eventually.

oh, and on the weekedn, when dh was ahaving a go about me not cooking, i told him to feed them. he got even more stressed than i get.

Ulysees · 20/09/2005 17:44

Awww LTH, I feel your pain

I've cooked meals from scratch and before ds2 had even seen it he's saying "I don't like it" I just stick it in front of him now or give him a dish with ketchup, a spoon and some bread and he usually eats some.

I made home made burgers last night and he did eat some of it but not enough IMO. He'd never eat a casserole but he's only 5 and ds1(almost 8) used to be the same but eats anything now.

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LadyTophamHatt · 20/09/2005 17:45

I've heard something simlilar, pollyanna.

But ds2 is 4 now and I put carrots, brussels, peas etc etc on his plate, for every dinner that we have veg. He still won't eat it.

Suzy, DS3 is the same as you Ds2. He'll eat any amount of crap and it drives my demented. The only meal I know he will eat without agro is pasta. I can't cook that every day...ds2 hates it for a start.

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LadyTophamHatt · 20/09/2005 17:48

tomorrow I will post how well dinner has gone as it will be sandwiches (stitch, i bow to you ) or some other plate of processed crap.

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logic · 20/09/2005 17:54

oh god, I sympathise. My ds is the same. I get 'Don't like it' about EVERYTHING apart from crisps and chocolate obviously.

Ulysees · 20/09/2005 18:13

wish me luck, quinoa is simmering as I 'speak' Ds2 loves rice, hope I can pass this of as it. Giving them cooked ham and salad with it.

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LadyTophamHatt · 21/09/2005 12:59

Sausage and mash for dinner tonight.

They always eat this so I'm hoping for a stress free dinnertime.

Hmmmmmmmm, we'll see.

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Gobbledigook · 21/09/2005 13:00

I did fish fingers, chips and veg last night as I said - ds2 didn't even touch it, ds1 nibbled at it, ds3 threw most of it on the floor.

Butties tonight

Gobbledigook · 21/09/2005 13:00

Did you do sarnies last night?

JoolsToo · 21/09/2005 13:01

ds2 didn't touch it - you're lying

puddle · 21/09/2005 13:04

What are you making with your quinoa Ulysses? I've tried passing it off as rice and couscous but they wouldn't have it. I did't really like it either so couldn't blame them.

suzywong · 21/09/2005 13:05

I resorted to buying one of those chocolate energy shakes, the equivalent of two weetabix worth of fibre and extra vitamins.
Did he have more than three slurps? Did he hell