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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a picky water. I grew up eating in a family where everyone had different tastes and lots of times there will be multiple separate dishes cooked (and more if grandparents visit). 
It's the same now. Each eats their own dish. Most of the dishes are simple (steak and grilled vegetables for one, grilled shrimp and raw vegetables for another, salad for the third person, etc). Even desserts are different. I don't like brownies without fruit in them, everyone one else hates fruit in the brownies, but some want nuts and some hate nuts. Four separate trays are baked.[/quote]

Wow this sounds like so much work.  We both work full time so dinner is usually simple like pasta plus salad with fruit or yoghurt for dessert.  Or fish with potatoes and steamed veg.  We don't make separate meals and we also don't force anyone to eat anything.  Our older daughter eats everything but the younger one, for example, doesn't like potatoes or broccoli.  So if I make fish plus potatoes plus steamed veggies I make sure that there are some carrots or string beans in the steamed veg for her and she'll just eat fish, carrots and strong beans for dinner.

We're frazzled and just don't have time to short order cook.  Also, the younger one would become a picky eater in we catered to her.  But we don't and if she doesn't eat, she doesn't eat.  [/quote]
Cooking and baking is my stress release, maybe that's the secret. My poor co-workers had to eat all the cakes I made when I had problems at home. I literally brought my stress into the office. [/quote]

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