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

[LadyTophamHatt]

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

LOL Suzy!

JT - honestly! He's not eating at all at the moment. Don't know what's wrong. Maybe he's stressed about the house sale too?

Last night was the casserole. Dh will be eating it for days because there so much left.

I'm guessing tonight will be about 80% a success. DS1 will eat it all, DS2 will eat all the sausage and a little bit of mash, DS3 will eat just the the sausage as he hates any form of potato. I'll give him beans with it.

If I have another day like yesterday they will have sandwiches for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day until they are old enough to cook for themselves.

Sounds good! Mine love sandwiches!

i must be horrid mummy because if my ds1 doesn't eat what he is given for his evening meal then he gets nothing till morning

granted i never give him a completely new meal

none of this cooking two meals crap he has 1 choice andything else is just pandering to them

Same here - ds2 didn't touch his tea last night so he went to bed with nothing. Is that mean?

nope not mean - sensible
having said that, DS hasnt eaten much last 2 days but seemed fine til this morning so took him to doctors - has tonsilitus
poor kid obviously didnt fancy food as hurting to swallow....didnt bother telling me though
I just thought he was being fussy

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I had meatballs squished into the table from dd1 (with extremely bad attitude for someone so small) but dd2 wolfed them down.

I now put the plates down and run away and have my cup of tea in the kitchen and listen to the moaning from there.

what i do with my ds now is, always make sure there is something in the meal he likes....

then refuse to serve that bit until he has had some of the bits he refuses to eat.

I have only been doing this for 3 days, but it is working.

he is 2.5.

we went out to lunch at afriends on Sun - -ds1 announced that he wouldn't be eating anything before we went - -and sure enough he refused the sausages, chicken nuggets and baked beans on offer. Ds2 tucked in

monstermummy I do the same as you. Ds is offered one tea and if it isnt eaten then thats it till breakfast...unless he hasnt eaten at all in the day in which case I will try toast or a yoghurt but thats it.

lol iota - we get that when we go for a pub lunch 'I'm not eating ANYTHING' bellowed from dd1 on the way in.

Sigh.

Ds2 is far more fussy than ds1. His party piece is to go "that not look very nice...that not smell very nice...I not like it" He sits there whinging while it goes cold and congeals on the plate then he'll try a tiny bit and go "mmm...it's nice."

He's another one who turns his nose up at lovingly prepared casseroles, roast dinners etc. and would eat processed crap 'til it's coming out of his ears. He gets what he's given though and - if he doesn't eat it - well, as I tell him, it's a long time 'til breakfast

funnily enough ds1 likes eating in a restaurant -- he'll happily eat at Frankie and Bennys or Bella Italia, not to mention the numerous kids meals in pubs etc.

The only think he's ever eaten at friends house is mashed potato or plain pasta

my mum used to make me eat my tea for breakfast if i hadn't had it for tea

I made boeuf borgigneon last week -- ds1 came in mmmmmthat smells nice....BUT I'm not going to try any of it.

ds2 of course loved it [sigh]

bourguignon -- had to look it up

Almost exactly as I predicted.
Ds1 ate it all.
Ds2 ate all the sausage but more mash than usual.
Ds3 ate about half a sausage and maybe half a dozen baked beans.

I let Ds1 have a chocolate bar because he ate it all and was good at the table (usually he's a nightmare) and I've just gone upstairs to get the PJ's and he'd given half of the chocolate to Ds3.
Bless him, but it's not getting my message of "nothing else unless you eat you dinner" through

Ds2 has just tipped the contents of a holepunch over the carpet now so although dinner was Ok I'm feeling a little tetchy for totally different reasons!

LTH - tonight I did 'picnic tea' so they had

Sandwiches
Breadsticks
Cubes of cheese
Grapes
Raisins
An orange
A yoghurt

They all ate it all so got to share a packet of fruit pastilles (not ds3 of course!).

They would eat this with no problems every night. Actually ds2 was stalling over the grapes and cheese until he saw ds1 getting his sweets - he wolfed his down then Bribery is the best policy in this house!!!