Do you cook separate food for the kids?

[PaulineB]

Reading the "what did you have for dinner" convo, prompted me to see how many cook separate food for the children? 3/4 of our family are veggies, with one carnivore, so I do cook two meals often, but ds (15months) eats the veggie option till he can decide for himself?

I do, but only because I don't want to eat my tea at 5pm with dd, and then have to cook something for dh later.

Often I'll cook for me and dh in the evening and then save some for dd's tea the following night, or sometimes I'll cook a big batch of food in the afternoon to give to dd, and reheat it later for me and dh.

Even if I cook for dh and dd together I have to cook separately for me because I'm veggie too.

We all eat together.

I'm the only veggie in my family so I tend to cook all veggy meals.

My DH cooks about half the time and he'll often do meat and fish, but with a veggy option for me. (Bless him).

I cook for the children - they eat tea at 4:45 or so, dh cooks for us once the kids are in bed, around 7. We all eat lunches together at the weekend.
I feel vaguely guilty about not eating with them, but it's just too early and dh doesn't get home till 6 (which would be too late for the children), plus dh and I usually eat very spicy food.

I eat with the kids, but I also have a little supper with my dh later on.

Not generally. DD and I eat about 6pm together.

Mon-Thurs and Sunday we all eat together (even though we don't get in till after 6p.m. Means we don't eat till 7 p.m. usually but kids are sued to it). Friday / Sat kids eat around 6 p.m. and dh and I eat much much later!

Yes. The boys eat dinner at 5.30ish and dh isn't home till 6.30-7pm which is too late for the kids who are in bed by 7.15pm!

Sometimes the kids eat the same thing but earlier in the day, e.g. lasagne or a pasta bake.

On a Friday we sometimes eat together as dh gets in about 6pm and it's not so important that the boys are in bed early with Saturday the next day. So tonight we will eat together. Sunday we tend to eat together and about 50:50 on a Saturday.

At the weekend we do and two out of the three weekdays. We try to as much as possible - if we eat together it's normally more like 6.00 than 5 tho which would feel that bit too early for me. I love having family meals - we always ate together when I was a child too - it's a really nice time in our house where we chat about our days.

We all eat together so children have quite a sophisticated palete!!!and not a chicken nugget or turkey dinosaur in sight

We all eat together and 95% of the time dd1 will have what we're having, though often with less or no salt/chilli/nuts/blue cheese or whatever.

Tbh, I have more trouble with dh, who has to have any vegetable mashed to a pulp/masked with strong sauce. If there were a rolly eyes smiley on this board, I'd insert it here.

Nope!

I cook separately as my lo has his lunch early and then has his tea at about 4.30pm.

We all eat dinner together pretty much all of the time. 3.5yo DD eats what we eat.

Tend to cook earlier for the kids but we eat essentially the same food , so it is often pasta bakes, stews, bolognese, cottage pie etc. If dh is likely to be late I'll eat with them and set some aside.

Depends on time etc. usually all eat together and same food.

DS (14mo) is still on pureed food. He's too impatient and hungry to chew food for an entire meal. DH is never home before 6:30pm so poor DS is fed on his own