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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You sound like you have created a drama queen monster.  [/quote]

Mommy dearest gets up to cook breakfast every day for her 16 year old princcess, don't you know. [/quote]

OPs kid is only 16, that’s still really young. My daughter is almost 18, and I cook her whatever meals she want’s daily. So does her father. I’d be extremely disappointed if he wasn’t cooking what she wanted for her.[/quote]

:D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  good one.[/quote]

Do all these people have only children or are they making whole individual meals for each kid?[/quote]

I have three kids but means that more balancing must be done.  What’s crazy here is this dad has one kid, half time, and he’s unable to balance her needs with his.  As an example, I have one kid that loves lentils and two kids that hate them.  I make his favorite lentil dish whenever his sisters are out with their friends, or sometimes I made it when one of them is out and I sub in cheese for the other.  Easy!  My goal is to make something that at least 2/3 of them like on any given night, and to rotate among the kids as to which one is the unlucky one that night.  If dad likes fish and daughters doesn’t, why doesn’t he make that on the 50% of time he doesn’t have her, or on the nights she eats out with her team or girlfriends? This is like basic parenting, that you take your children’s preferences into account to some degree.

This whole situation screams out to me that dad is very rigid and thinks he is teaching her some lesson by refusing to make the food she likes. (probably because he always hated the moms cooking and thinks the mom spoiled her feeding her unhealthy food like sliders.) That’s not exactly what this girl needs when she’s dealing with recently divorced parents, uprooting herself to be at dad’s 50% of time, probably also studying for APs and SATs etc.  She seems like she’s got a lot of sh$t on her plate and he could break down and make her a friggin’ carb and some grilled chicken, if he actually cared about her and wanted to make her feel more comfortable at his place.  Instead, he’s fighting some decade-old fight with his ex about healthy food.   [/quote]

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