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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Question for the "make separate meals" crowd: what kinds of dinners are you making for the adults?

M-Th I make one dinner that everyone eats.  The thing is, I don't really have the time or energy to make the kind of meals that my kids/*most* kids wouldn't like.  It's kid-friendly bc kid-friendly is quick and easy -- simple pasta dishes, simple protein + starch + veg, simple make your own tacos, etc.  (Not "kid food", but kid friendly.)

Friday we get pizza or go out.

Then on the weekends DH and I cook more elaborate, adventurous, spicy, etc. dinners and kids usually get separate kid food.

Works for us.

What are you adults whose kids eat separate kid food eating during the week??[/quote]

I make separate meals for my youngest most days of the week - my oldest is a teen and will eat what we eat but the youngest is very picky and only eats a few things, prepared a certain way. If the rest of us had to eat like this, we'd die of boredom. FWIW, my oldest was like that too and grew out of it (and I made her separate meals until she indicated interest in adult food.) I used to be like that as a kid and grew out of it as well. Youngest may or may not but either way, I'd rather he ate well and happily than have fights over it and turn mealtime into a misery.

I grew up in a different culture which had no concept of catering to kids in terms of kid-friendly food AND with family that deeply believed you needed to eat what was served to you too bad so sad. I hated mealtimes for years and a large chunk of my childhood memories are of miserable meals lasting for hours and fights and meltdowns over food and me trying to find any way to get out of eating whatever. I had issues about food for years until I lived by myself for a sufficiently long time to be able to move past issues associated with that and to slowly figure out what I like and what I don't gradually and without pressure. Now I am actually not a picky eater at all, but it took me years. I don't want to inflict that on my kids. MMV.

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