"fmaily meals" whose ferigging idea was that

[NotCod]

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

I've never not make what I like. Cook's perogative.
If they don't want it, tough shit.
All the more for me.

Moondog Are you very fat?

No
Size 12
Why?

OH I SO agree. HOrrible, horrible family meals. Teenagers lovely, but small children nightmare.

Just let them go when they have finished then you and dh continue at leezher while sipping wine but still feel virtuous re en famille situation.

AIBU to find a mother who hates family mealtimes UTTERly unattractive?

I keep thinking, 'must eat with kids in manner of waltons or someone in a magazine' and then do it and it's horrific. Got a fantastic expensive free range chickens, did nice roasted veg la la la and the kids whined and bickered and cried ffs. Dh went into a decline and I ate in record time due to stress and nobody really tasted their food. Disaster. Often having dinner with dh with some wine is teh highlight of my day - but not with kids it isn't.

Mine look at the food and ask 'how much do I have to eat?'

It's the highlight of my day.

Snap, Janni. The telltable silence. Then 'Mummyyyy [or Daddyyyy] ... how many more mouthfuls?' Response from DH varies, response from me: Just. Eat.

(I now seem to have 'A Little Less Conversation' as an earworm as a result of this thread)

My 2 year old thanks Daddy for dinner sometimes spontaneously because I always thank dh for making us such a lovely dinner. Does dd ever thank me? Well, does dh ever thank me? Monkey see, monkey do...

moondog - absolutely and then then start to want to linger with you - tis nice

We eat together - because my boys are old enough now, and because there is no way I'm going to cook more than one meal.

But even at 16 and 13 there are things that drive me mad! (Sorry Cod, I know you don't want to hear that)

I feel like just putting a tape on so I don't have to say the same things all the time

sit properly
use your knife
don't lick your knife
don't slurp
slow down
yes, you have to have some veg

etc etc

And then DS1 is a silent teenager. Every question from me, no matter how open ended I make it, gets a monosyllabic (or less) answer.

But apparently they enjoy it, or so they tell me.

It's quite bizarre, there's a huge list of Family Activities I don't like at all but we all like Family Meals (which are most of our meals). OK sometimes the screaming and yelling gets too much and I have to retire to another room, but mostly it's quite pleasant.

in contrast to our very un-model-family behaviour in other ways - the screaming mornings, the last-minute-shouting-school-dash, the horrible swimming trips, the grim "holidays", the 7yo rolling round the floor tantrumming for an hour over something trivial. In contrast, meals are OK. Short and sweet. And then you can all disperse to your various activities and get some space from each other again.

That's what we do @mooondog and beetroot (at weekends)

On schooldays the DDs get home from school so late that what with homework etc we'd hardly have any talking time if we didn't eat together.

This is my best thread in a long time.

To whoever said they like work night - glass of wine and nice dinner and peace, what a fab post.

I agree with everyone who seems to be saying that actually "family" meals aren't what they are "supposed" to be.

I like the idea of the tape BIWI!

Family meals are also a nightmare here. dd manages to eat, talk, fiddle and fidget at the same time and is somehow always the first to finish.

@ 'How much do I have to eat?' - the daily refrain chez Snaf. Ungrateful little wotsit.

And to think I used to worry that ds would never learn to talk, either...

Well it's comforting to know I'm not the only mum whose culinary delights fail to tempt young palates. I get so bored giving them the stuff I know they'll eat. Oh to be able to add onion! spices! mushrooms! peppers! But no, that would freak'em out.

we only do sunday evening and dh loathes it. My rules are the exact opposite of pointydogs

and that's why you hates it

I know I am right

we haev some lowest common denomnator food that means we can all eat the same.
id liek to be" well fi you dont eat it tough"
but i cant face te thought of ds1 vomiting at the table

back to old fussy eaters are parent led crapola hten are we?

don't your kids eat different food to you?
i don't like what they like but I eat it grudgingly

they won't eat what I like, waste of time/effort/food trying to get them to

breakfast ok
lunch ok

they have tea at 5
we eat supper at 8

don't your kids eat different food to you?
i don't like what they like but I eat it grudgingly

they won't eat what I like, waste of time/effort/food trying to get them to

breakfast ok
lunch ok

they have tea at 5
we eat supper at 8