Do you serve food your DC aren't keen on?

[NettoSuperstar]

I'm mulling this over today as I was going to make baba ganoush as part of tonight's meal (I'm not, as I couldn't get any aubergines) even though DD isn't keen. She doesn't hate it, and there's plenty other things to eat, but unless she hates a food, I still serve it.
Pulses too spring to mind, she's not a massive fan, but they still get served in various ways.

Do you only make what they like?

Yes my DS is the same Netto he love homous actually, I think my attitude is pretty mch the same, lately he has been wanting to try chilli spiced things and judges whether he wants more, there is always a mild option in these instances.

I think its mad that people cook seperate meals at two different times Unless there are dietry reasons!

I am confident enough that he eats fairly well with different veg etc (except mushroom and courgettes must be the texture) that I am relaxed enough to let hime have chocolates and mc donalds. He loves hotdogs which we now have on family film night with wedges and dips etc and of course popcorn ice cream and hot choc.

Agreed re one or two things that they obviously hate - for example, one of mine has never eaten an egg, and I'd say never will, and I can just tell it is a visceral revulsion and not just fussiness. Although she does have them in cakes, pancakes etc.

Yes. There's a huge difference between 'not keen on' and absolutely loathes. No-one has to eat food they really can't stand but we can't all have our favourite foods and nothing else. Otherwise we would have someone existing on bananas and toast, another on olives, steak and mushrooms, another on chocolate and roast chicken, another on the insides of pork pies and another on baked potatoes.

Yes, every day according to them!

Yes-not keen is no problem. They often thank you when they are older and grow to really like it.

It's probably easier for me as there are only the two of us in the house, I can see it would be harder the more people you have to work around.

I do try to be fair though, I hate peppers, but will buy them for DD, either just to serve raw or make a dish with and them pick them out of mine, in the same way I let her pick mushrooms our of her food, or leave the capers out of her pasta dish when I'm having them.

I don't serve her overly spicy food either, it'll either be one mild dish which I may spice up for me, or a selection of dishes and I don't expect her to eat the hotter ones.

Was going to reply exactly the same as halfcaffodils!! I never seem to please them, so now I just cook a varied menu, although I do sometimes make a meal because I know they like it/ it went down well in the past. Very occasionally I even make a meal because I like it, but this usually meets with miserable faces, including DH. sigh.

Noone in my family likes the things I like!

Me too jooly! DH and I both like a curry and a roast (lamb or chicken) the kids and I like pizza (but me not as often as they would have it!) and pasta (ditto); that is about where our shared tastes end. DH is fussier than the dc, to be honest!

Thankfully i only have one awkward eater, DD2. She won't eat anything with tomatoes in it except pizza, or sweet potatoes. She will eat almost anything else though so i'm happy to give her Bolognese without the sauce occasionally.

But yes. Our rule is 'try it, you might like it!'.
DD1 and DS will eat anything you put in front of them.

i hate stig down to a meal of something I don't really like, so I never cook things that everyone doesnt like, or I offer one quite basic alternative. (beans on toast, egg and soldiers etc)

I 'think' of the girls when I'm planning what to cook but I don't let them dictate to me what we are having. I've never cooked something different for them, they have always eaten grown-up food.

Now they are grown up (teenagers) they eat anything and everything. They love spicy food, they will happily try new flavours. 13 yr old dd would probably choose Chicken Dippers for dinner if given the choice, but she rarely is

I'd never eat food I hate, nor would I make DD, but I'm talking about 'not keen on', 'would rather not', 'can I have chips instead', food.

I sometimes eat things I'd rather not, because they are good for me, or on offer that week, or are quick and easy, but I don't hate them.

If I went with just what DD wanted, we'd eat three meals, and then the roast would only have two things on it, add in the junk she'd eat and we'd have a problem!