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[quote=Anonymous]Are you home for dinner?  Like are the kids eating at 7?  Or are you expecting him to offer them food he doesn’t like at 5:30 without you?

If you are home, I think it’s fair to ask that your preferences be included in family dinners sometimes too.  If the latter, then I think you need to just do your own thing for dinner if you need variety and let him do as he likes for weekday dinners.

Either way, I think you should cook meals you like on weekends to expose the kids to more variety and I would ABSOLUTELY have words about his attitude.  It is completely rude and disrespectful to make a big production about unfamiliar food.  He is an adult and doesn’t have to eat it, but it’s NOT okay to be an a$$hole about it.

If you are all eating together, my suggestion would be to plan on having one dish each night to your preference.  So if you want Meatless Mondays, you make veggie lasagna on the weekend, he makes whatever he would normally make, you have lasagna and a token amount of sweet potato and meat and whatever, he has his meal and a token amount of lasagna (doesn’t have to eat it, just put a spoonful in a ramekin next to his plate), and the kids get a bit of everything.  Nobody talks about the food at dinner; just eat what you like, leave what you don’t.[/quote]

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