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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This child is a product of our time and so are most of the responses on this thread. You would think we were talking about a one-year-old baby by the way people suggest you cater to him.

He's a guest in your house. You cook a few meals you know he enjoys and for the rest of the meals, you cook like you usually do.
[b]If the boy doesn't like your cooking and is still hungry after dinner, he can make himself a peanut butter sandwich later in the evening[/b].[/quote]

Going back to the beginning, this didn't seem like OP's approach.  Her husband wants to have on hand alternate food.  She doesn't.  She wants to cook what she wants to cook, and require the young man to eat it as part of teaching him manners.  [/quote]

PP here : I agree that this is not her role.[/quote]

And she also wants to announce when he arrives that his fussy ways will not be tolerated.  She doesn't like this kid and is spoiling for a fight.

There's a lot of middle ground between "force kid to eat food you know he hates" and "let kid eat nothing but frozen pizza for two weeks."  Cook meals you know he likes some nights.  Cook meals you have a reasonable expectation he will like the rest of the time.  Let him eat as much or as little of those meals as he wants.  Let him make a PB&J if he's still hungry (and he will be.  Teen boys are like vacuum cleaners.)  If he actually makes a rude comment about the food, you can reprimand him and remind him to be polite.  But it's not your job to teach him to like vegetables.  It's your job to be a gracious hostess, and no gracious hostess intentionally prepares food she knows that her guests will not like.  [/quote]

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