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[quote=Anonymous]You don’t have to do two meal preps if you eat separately. Our kid eats what we eat, with a few child-friendly fixes (we like our food very spicy). Generally we meal plan so that she can eat her food at 6 or 6:15, and then we just eat the same food an hour later after she’s in bed. So like I’m make spaghetti and meatballs, serve her and set a bit aside for her leftovers, and then finish seasoning the sauce to our taste as DH puts her to bed. Then we eat, and there’s only one cleanup. And the next day we all eat leftovers and it’s even easier.

Also, whenever possible she held us cook. She’s only 3.5 so her help is largely fir her benefit, but we have her add ingredients, help measure, stir things that are not hot, etc. I feel like that time together is more valuable than us all trying to sit at a table together at this stage, because she’s directly interacting with us and also learning a lot about how food is made, what us in her food, some math, some fine motor skills. We also bake together often.

There are of course times when she just won’t eat what we are eating because her palate is so different, and we have to make two meals. But we’d have to do that even if we ate together. And I don’t understand why anyone is doing two cleanups? You just leave the dishes from kid’s dinner until you are also done eating, and do it once.[/quote]

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