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There is no waste as foods are liked. I don't think it has anything to do with laziness, but with preferences. Our house is very cluttered, that's not a priority. It's also not about training. All my friends have very similar households (including my friends' parents ones when I was a kid), this thread is very surprising to me. I only know one person, who had "one meal for all" growing up, so he learned to cook fast. It is all new and puzzling to me :)[/quote]
Pp here.  I'm really surprised that people cook all these special meals.  What is the reasoning behind it - especially for adults? You cooked steak for your husband and kale for yourself and then a third dinner for the kids?  Maybe your husband is a picky eater too.  What does that say about how he was parented? I eat and enjoy most foods as does my husband.  The only food I can think of off hand that I don't like is papaya and my husband doesn't like strawberries.  But apart from that we eat and enjoy everything because we're adults.  Both of us are decent cooks so the food tastes good.  My older kid enjoys eating almost everything too and the younger one sometimes doesn't like things (for example pasta sauce or potatoes) so she doesn't eat those but eats the other parts of the dinner.  We're all normal weight and generally healthy.  We waste very little food as we all enjoy eating a variety of foods.[/quote]
Steak and kale PP. DH is not a picky eater at all, but, as all of us, has preferences. So are kids, so am I. I live with the notion that life has to be enjoyed. Food and physical activities are the easiest ones to make enjoyable (for me). If dinner time comes and I feel like smoothie, I will make a smoothie, I don't think twice about it. I don't eat meat every day, don't want it, but the rest do. DH likes steak on the bone, kids would not touch the bone, thus different cuts (that particular time is because bone in  ribeye and pork loin were on sale :) We are not an overworked household, average corporate people, typical kids activities. We buy what's on sale and what's in season, so meals are never planned. [/quote]
NP. I know everyone's different, so I'm not going to judge. But I'm curious if your family all eats together. Just the logistics of putting together so many foods at the same time seem overwhelming to me.

I do, however, find it odd that you only knew one person growing up with a "one meal for all" household. I literally cannot think of a single friend (of any religion or ethnicity) that didn't have "one meal for all". The only exception, if you can call it that, is that my aunt and uncle that we did almost all holidays with would let kids eat a very kid friendly meal (i.e. hot dogs or similar) because the holiday meals were usually quite heavy and adults sat down to dinner much later than kids wanted to eat. The only exception was thanksgiving where we all ate together.[/quote]
Kids are in high school, so no more weekday dinners for all (they come home after 8). Logistically, it's actually easier for me to have different stuff as I don't like to cook big amounts of the same thing. [/quote]

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