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Feeding the masses, what would you do?

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Somanykiddies · 08/02/2006 19:17

Well there's only five, but two are vegetarian, neither eat veg, one doesn't like cheese or anything with lumps, other three are kind of ok but are twigging on to everyone elses fussiness. Apart from the fact that our shopping bill is approx £1000!!!! a month, it is soooooo stressfull trying to please everyone, so, here's the rub, would you send them off to school dinners. Primary for three of them has a varied menu, no turkey twizzlers here, but the older two are in secondary where I imagine they will have chips everyday!!! What would you do, I am living in catering hell, advice please.

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starlover · 08/02/2006 20:23

what does she eat if she won't eat lumps????

Passionflower · 08/02/2006 20:23

I would send primary off for school dinners, in fact DD1 has school dinners and DD2 will be having them in september too. Are the secondary's old enough to stay up and eat with you? Give them what you're having, (but without the meat if they're the veggies).

Don't try to please everyone every day, they must take turns to be pleased IYSWIM.

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Somanykiddies · 08/02/2006 20:27

That's the thing Starlover, she will eat quorn chicken chunks but not a bolognaise sauce with veg lumps or yog with lumps etc, totally selective I know. I just really and utterly give up. Have started new thread to see what the school dinner situation is. Thanks for your replies.

Eating with the veggies have become pretty traumatic because it is hard to watch someone dismatle your carefully prepared nutritious meal so it is basically a bit of sauce as opposed to a vegetarian chilli that was started from scratch. School dinners here we come!

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Bozza · 08/02/2006 20:29

DS has school dinners. I haven't contemplated doing otherwise.

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Somanykiddies · 08/02/2006 20:30

Thank you Bozza, someone after my own thinking! Surely my kitchen nightmare must end soon, if only for the short term.

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starlover · 08/02/2006 20:31

smk, you can hide veggies in their stuff....
ie, if you make spag bol make it veggie, so lumps of vegetables in a nice tomato sauce.
then puree some of the sauce for the non-lumps dd!

she won't be able to tell if the sauce is tomatoey enough that there are any veg in it at all!

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Somanykiddies · 08/02/2006 20:32

Did that yesterday starlover with someones root veggie korma recipe, still wouldn't have it, scrapped the 'sauce' off the quorn chicken and had rice and 'chicken' but asked for tom sauce, COMPUTER SAYS NO!!!!

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Somanykiddies · 08/02/2006 20:33

Honestly, i have tried every trick in the book, been at this game for 18 months now, I either need a cook, send them to boarding school or school dinners!!!!

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starlover · 08/02/2006 20:34

maybe the trick is to cook separately?
or... just serve up plain quorn and rice. they'll soon get bored

you must have the patience of a saint!

starlover · 08/02/2006 20:35

when i say cook separately i meant, serve up everything plain, and the offer sauces etc to those who want them?

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Somanykiddies · 08/02/2006 20:38

No patience at all Starlover!!! That's why I've had enough and things have got to change.

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Tortington · 08/02/2006 21:36

i would buy the stuff for the older ones to have sandwiches - and then get themt o make their sandwiches the night before.

therefore only leaving me the other ones to fuck about with

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