I hate cooking for dinner time

[Anonymous]

I grill extra hamburgers and chicken breasts and wrap them individually and stick in the freezer. If my young teens don't like my meal, they can pull one of those out, but they have to eat a fresh vegetable and fruit too.

[Anonymous]

How old are you kids OP? Your post is the reason my kid didn’t have nuggets and other junk food early, she is 8 and does now on occasion but we started out establishing eating regular food. Rotisserie chicken/roast chicken is much better than nuggets and almost easier. I don’t particularly like cooking but I do try and make what we eat healthy. If your kids like pb&j let them have it for lunch on whole wheat bread with some fruit. That’s not an unhealthy meal.

[Anonymous]

You don’t need to cook different food for them, you need to figure out why they aren’t hungry at dinner time. A common culprit is too much snacks or milk/juice.

I’m Asian and I grew up here. We basically only had Chinese food to eat at dinners and we all loved it, except for the youngest child who was raised with unlimited snacking and became extremely picky. The extra salt and sugar in snacks makes regular food taste bland and makes you crave the kinds of foods you mentioned.

My kids are 3 and 7 and eat everything. All Asian foods — they love when we make Korean or Vietnamese food — all vegetables, different sauces including curry, foods not considered kids foods like fish and liver. We limit snacks and just have fruit between meals most days. Dinner time is a fun time where we talk about our day. When they were littler and just starting solids, we always start with vegetables, then meat, then a grain to get them used to all kinds of vegetables and meats. We didn’t accommodate pickiness by making different meals.