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"fmaily meals" whose ferigging idea was that

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NotCod · 02/10/2008 20:44

because i pretend that they are fufn btu they are awful

dh shovels food in as fast as he can to sotp the agony

kids eat either super fast or S l o w l y

and oh its vile

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motherinferior · 02/10/2008 21:54

When it's all four inmates of the Inferiority Complex it quite often ends up with me being banished to my room

pushchair · 02/10/2008 21:55

Whose children have to ask to leave the table? DP will suddenly and randomly start this and rant about rudeness.when it is not something I normally bother with.

pointydog · 02/10/2008 21:56

It is a meal. We often have tremendous fun. Why spoil it all with manner-hammering.

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NotCod · 02/10/2008 21:56

oh thye dont just piss off when they haev finihsed unless a brother is REALLy slow.

dh fails to grasp this

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NotCod · 02/10/2008 21:56

but htats the point
thast what i dOnt want
i dont want a cafe type thing OR the tv on
i want a meal where we all eat teh same food and its cool
but hey hpo there are worse things

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pointydog · 02/10/2008 21:57

er, we all eat the same food and it's cool.

Cappuccino · 02/10/2008 22:02

me and dh eat the same food as the dds

well we eat it

the dds sit in front of theirs for a while moaning about it

francagoestohollywood · 02/10/2008 22:02

We do it every day, like the majority of our fellow countrymen... we don't even call it a family meal. It is a meal. Can be pleasant, can be not pleasant. Always a good excuse for a good psychodrama.
The idea of feeding the children first just fills me with angst.

motherinferior · 02/10/2008 22:02

I like food. Nice food. Food crammed with chilli. And spices. And taste. I want to be able to fish out the kheema I made at the weekend and eat it (preferably slumped with a gory thriller work of cutting edge literature, but that's another ishoo). Fishcakes are fine in their place, but I want FOOD.

Cappuccino · 02/10/2008 22:03

I don't eat fishcakes

kids eat sit in front of my kheema

pushchair · 02/10/2008 22:03

Would like:
Calm conversation-'How was school today?' 'Really great mummy and I learned so much. Did you know that the Elizabethans wore stockings?'
Ravenous all consuming children.
Praise-'mummy that was delicious, I love your cooking! Can I have some more?'
A six inch radius for splatter/droppage

francagoestohollywood · 02/10/2008 22:03

(I once watched a gory thriller while eating pizza, and it wasn't a good idea)

pushchair · 02/10/2008 22:05

Ikea cafe- meatballs mmmmmmmm

Swedes · 02/10/2008 22:06

We always eat together where possible - I almost never have a meal away from my 1 and 2 year old. My children ask to leave the table except DS3 (1) who throws his cup and plate on the floor when he wants to get down.

francagoestohollywood · 02/10/2008 22:07

(you meant a book MI, didn't you?)

Swedes · 02/10/2008 22:08

Tonight we had pork and prunes (slow cooked) basmati rice, green beans and brocolli - nobody complained.

pointydog · 02/10/2008 22:08

you sound liek you take it very seriously, swedes

PinkTulips · 02/10/2008 22:08

dp sits and glares and eats and gets up and walks off as soon as he's done

dd sits and refuses to eat, repeatedly getting down from table and having to be ordered back up... it's all out war to get her to eat 3 bites while my own food is getting colder and less pleasant by the second

ds is better behaved, but so messy he actually manages to cover the entire table and me in food as well as himself and gives me a nervous breakdown throwing food and pouring drink

have been doing them less and less recently as am feeling too hormonal to cope without killing someone.... although the pregnancy hormones have the advantage of strikng the fear of god into dp when i glare at him and hiss 'could you please say something to them'

motherinferior · 02/10/2008 22:09

(I did. I do see the pizza problem, though.)

DD2 is driving me quite insane at meal times. Hence the banishment to my room when I've been driven to tears.

SlartyBartFast · 02/10/2008 22:09

only recently have we started to have family meals, due to dh previously working late, it is such a relief to know that i dont have to cook again
however dh reads his paper i really really want to tell him not to - but i am not his feckign mother
ds bolts his food as quickly as possible.
dd3 talks incessantly
sigh

Swedes · 02/10/2008 22:13

Pointy - Do you think I might need to see someone about it?

pointydog · 02/10/2008 22:16

well, you've made light of it so maybe not

DontCallMeBaby · 02/10/2008 22:18

I developed a theory this evening. You know that 'don't talk with your mouth full' thing? It doesn't stem from it being disgusting to look at the content of someone's mouth, someone invented that rule because they thought if their child didn't talk with their mouth full the child would have to STOP BLOODY TALKING in order to eat, and that therefore the someone (parent) might actually be able to GET A WORD IN.

Still, at least she was eating instead of poking and whinging.

SlartyBartFast · 02/10/2008 22:26

that might work

SlartyBartFast · 02/10/2008 22:27

i spose it makes a change from Eat up and Shut up - not what i say - more like More Eating less Talking - doesnt work with dd3 though