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

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Lol my Dh has done this too.

[Anonymous]

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.

Ha, my husband makes "SOS" but he doesn't expect the rest of us to eat it, thankfully.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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

The instinct is understandable. But then he is choosing to ignore the lived experience, repeated, of the kids hating it. EVERY time!

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Creamed chipped beef is AWESOME. I don't see the problem here.

[Anonymous]

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

[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.

Plus 1

[Anonymous]

Early in our marriage, I made a dish using canned cream soup. Dh took a picture and sent it to his brother. Apparently their mother cooked like that often and it wasn't a fond memory. Last time I tried a recipe like that!

[Anonymous]

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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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[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.

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