Grrrr. Nothing peeves me more than picky eaters who expect you to cater to them.
In my house, they get a big can of MAKE IT YOURSELF
Amen to that. We have friends that are vegetarians, and they really get irritating. We have to cook vegetarian meals for them when they come to dinner, but they won’t cook meat for us. It’s almost not worth the trouble anymore.
"In my house, they get a big can of MAKE IT YOURSELF"Hey, my mom practically raised me on that item!
We once hosted one of my husband’s single soldiers for Thanksgiving Dinner. The guy wouldn’t eat anything I made. He didn’t “like” turkey. The gravy was an “odd color”. The homemade rolls smelled “too much like bread”. (I think he meant that he could smell the yeast.) The scratch vegetable chowder “had onions in it”. He ate the crust of the apple pie, but not the filling. He actually gagged once. I’ve never been so insulted.
As soon as the meal was over, he left.
I told my husband, “At least we now know why he’s single!”
This is the first and only time a single soldier has behaved with nothing but respect and gratitude. I’m glad that I kept hosting dinners.
I’m with you
When my two were growing up, I made a decision to just not make food a big deal. I made it, served it, and they ate or didn’t eat. Either way, food was there. I would offer to make up a plate of leftovers if anyone was a bit uninterested.
No real snacks in the house for anyone after dinner. If my girls didn’t eat, I just didn’t make any kind of deal about it. I wanted NO control issues over food like I had when I was growing up and my dad would FORCE scrambled eggs in my mouth.
Go figure, when there are no control issues over foods, kids tend to try different things, especially when they get hungry!