- Eat the same three bland meals twice every week.
- Make what I like, get zero appreciation, and eat most of it myself while starving my family?
- Yell, scream, and issue threats at each dinner.
- Make four different plates of food at every meal.
I go round and round with this. Actually, while cleaning out some old notebooks today I found a list I made in Arizona titled "foods the boys LOVE to eat"... so, obviously I've been working with and struggling over this for a while. Today I was thinking, "what if I make sure to make at least one dish that each person likes at each meal, and I rotate them to make certain everyone's eating a balanced diet..." Then I thought, "that sounds like a lot of work!"
I've never been one for making lots of special foods, I've always thought they should "eat what I fix". I also think it's my responsibility as a wife and mother to cook foods that are healthy, economical, and satisfying for the whole family.
I always have struggled to plan menus. For some reason, that's just a hard thing for me to sit down and do. I've been doing better at it, but as I do better with planning a menu and shopping for it, it feels like my family does worse for the eating of it.
I'm just not sure what to do. Any bright ideas?
On a related note, here's a super-simple treat I came up with a few years back. I call them my "cheater smores". You take whatever vanilla frosting you like (homemade or store bought) and spread it on two graham crackers. Then, sprinkle a generous layer of M&M's on one of the crackers. Top it with the second cracker and enjoy with a glass of milk. Mmm, yum! Here are a few pictures.
Like I said, super-simple and totally yumilicous!
Suzy :D
3 comments:
I like the you will eat what I fix or go hungry method myself...
I agree with Becky - Anna has pulled "I don't want to eat that" once, and the next time she got a chance to eat was breakfast - she now makes an effort to at least eat half of what is made without complaint - that way she can "earn" a fruitbar. Tom also needs to be backing you up and eating his dinner without complaining as well or all he is doing is teaching the boys its ok to complain
I do wonder about their examples at the table... it's not just the little boys who complain about what I fix. It's disheartening (to say the least) when NO ONE seems to appreciate the whole meal! :P
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