Hey DH, if you want 3yo to eat the dinner you made...

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Anonymous wrote:Dude its something that reminds him of his childhood. Its comforting. Your kids dont like it…so what. No need to be a jerk about it. Especially if its not a nightly thing.

Well, it's certainly not a nightly thing, as he maybe cooks twice a month, and I cook the rest of the nights.

And I'm not a jerk about it. I eat it and say thank you. HE acts like a jerk when the kids won't try this heavy, condensed, nasty food.

And I'm sure mommy supports them in their tantrums and gives them whatever they whine for.

Holy shit, have you ever actually eaten creamed chipped beef????? I know no three-year-old who would eat that!

I have. I also know several 3 year olds that would eat it.

Thanks for confirming what I thought about you and your role in the dinner time tantrums.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Husband doesn't make dinner, wife complains. Husband makes dinner, wife complains. And you all wonder why your marriages end up a mess.

Plus 1

Minus 1. Making crappy kid unfriendly food because YOU want it isn't being helpful.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Husband doesn't make dinner, wife complains. Husband makes dinner, wife complains. And you all wonder why your marriages end up a mess.

Plus 1

Plus 2. Married 30 years.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe don't make creamed chipped beef and succotash.

Yes, our kids eat a healthful variety of very good foods. They don't just eat "kid stuff." They try the bay's majority of what they are served with no coaxing needed.

But every time he wants to cook, he busts out the Betty Crocker 1970s cookbook and makes canned soup-y stuff his mom used to serve. I always eat it and say thank you, but I can't exactly blame our kids for not wanting to eat this heavy stuff. We are talking LITERALLY shit on a shingle.

Your life must be pretty sweet if this is the best you can come up with to bitch about. Not "thread worthy", IMO.

Then don't comment and make the thread longer. See how that works?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dude its something that reminds him of his childhood. Its comforting. Your kids dont like it…so what. No need to be a jerk about it. Especially if its not a nightly thing.

Well, it's certainly not a nightly thing, as he maybe cooks twice a month, and I cook the rest of the nights.

And I'm not a jerk about it. I eat it and say thank you. HE acts like a jerk when the kids won't try this heavy, condensed, nasty food.

And I'm sure mommy supports them in their tantrums and gives them whatever they whine for.

OP here. Nope. They have to try a bite of everything they are served. And unless they eat a significant portion, there is no dessert. But he is all wounded and offended that they don't gobble it up. He tries to coax and cajole and even threaten them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Husband doesn't make dinner, wife complains. Husband makes dinner, wife complains. And you all wonder why your marriages end up a mess.

Plus 1

Nope, but nice try. I don't complain to him. I support him in getting them to at least try it. HE complains to ME that they don't eat it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:He is making what he ate as a kid. It's totally understandable.

I ate spam and mac and cheese as a kid but that doesn't mean I make that now.

My mom loved making stuff suspended in jello. There's not enough money in the world to make me eat that stuff now.

[Anonymous]

Mmmmmmm sos! I make it about twice a year. My white sauce is from scratch! No condensed soup crap here

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Husband doesn't make dinner, wife complains. Husband makes dinner, wife complains. And you all wonder why your marriages end up a mess.

Plus 1

Nope, but nice try. I don't complain to him. I support him in getting them to at least try it. HE complains to ME that they don't eat it.

Op is venting on an anonymous board. She thanks him and eats the food. How do you make the leap where her marriage is a mess?

[Anonymous]

Creamed chipped beef was legendary growing up - my dad would always mention it as a horror of his childhood, along with liver and Brussels sprouts. I didn't even know creamed chipped beef was a real thing (I confess I wasn't an observant grocery shopper) until I was about 30.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dude its something that reminds him of his childhood. Its comforting. Your kids dont like it…so what. No need to be a jerk about it. Especially if its not a nightly thing.

Well, it's certainly not a nightly thing, as he maybe cooks twice a month, and I cook the rest of the nights.

And I'm not a jerk about it. I eat it and say thank you. HE acts like a jerk when the kids won't try this heavy, condensed, nasty food.

And I'm sure mommy supports them in their tantrums and gives them whatever they whine for.

Holy shit, have you ever actually eaten creamed chipped beef????? I know no three-year-old who would eat that!

I have. I also know several 3 year olds that would eat it.

Thanks for confirming what I thought about you and your role in the dinner time tantrums.

I'm OP. The poster you are responding to above is not me. Thanks for playing, though!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe don't make creamed chipped beef and succotash.

Yes, our kids eat a healthful variety of very good foods. They don't just eat "kid stuff." They try the bay's majority of what they are served with no coaxing needed.

But every time he wants to cook, he busts out the Betty Crocker 1970s cookbook and makes canned soup-y stuff his mom used to serve. I always eat it and say thank you, but I can't exactly blame our kids for not wanting to eat this heavy stuff. We are talking LITERALLY shit on a shingle.

Your life must be pretty sweet if this is the best you can come up with to bitch about. Not "thread worthy", IMO.

Then don't comment and make the thread longer. See how that works?

Naw, she needed a call out to stfu

[Anonymous]

OP, at first I thought there was typo in your post because creamed chipped beef sounds so... strange...

Since everyone else seemed to take it in stride, I looked it up. Wow! Even as an adult I would have a hard time bringing a forkful of that to my mouth. Your kids are troopers for taking a bite! Yuck!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Husband doesn't make dinner, wife complains. Husband makes dinner, wife complains. And you all wonder why your marriages end up a mess.

Let me correct that for you. Husband does not make dinner wife complains, so husband makes dinner but makes sure it is something that no one but him likes, so his wife will stop asking him to get off his lazy ass to help. Sorry, some of us are on to these tricks.

[Anonymous]

MIne makes biscuits and gravy. I want to throw up when I see it. I truly can't bring a forkful to my mouth. But he enjoys making it and eating it, so I just roll my eyes and eat something else. Our kids are free to eat it or not. He doesn't make it often, thankfully.