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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, your kids will be fine. I was the pickiest eater ever until about age 10...and now I eat pretty much any cuisine.

This is a wake up call, though, to expand your cooking repertoire and keep a broader variety of ingredients on-hand once we resume something closer to normal life. I'm Asian-American, so my spice cabinet is more varied than average, I'm guessing...but I tend to have the spices available for a pretty broad variety of cuisines. I generally avoid more complicated dishes of cuisines I'm less familiar with, but I try to mimic the spice profiles. It's an easy way to create variety without needing a lot of exotic ingredients.[/quote]

Stocking up a little is a good idea and it might give me a few more options.  But, I'm in pretty decent shape with spices.  I don't have any meat (other then frozen beyond meat "sausage") and I have very few vegetables.  That makes it hard to do much and my attempts at resupply have so far been unsuccessful.

Before we ran low, I was doing a decent job of making real meals some of the time.  I made a Paella and Japanese curry soup, for example.  I can make chili and the like, and I am supposed to get some tofu soon, so that will open up a few other options.

But, since I've got enough food overall, including protein with beans, cheese and hopefully tofu, I'm not inclined to take the added risk of shopping.[/quote]

OP, you don’t need meat or a lot of ingredients to make “adventurous” food. I’m East Asian and we don’t have a lot of meat and ate the same vegetables often. I don’t know what you have, but here are some dishes that require very few ingredients:

-fresh rice with butter, soy, sesame, or rice with PB. Use leftover rice for rice balls with any filling or fried rice. 
-any Asian or pasta noodle in a peanut sauce, or broth, or cooked and then pan fried
-any broth with spices and whatever you have in the fridge and freezer - vegetables, wontons, dumplings, frozen seafood, coconut milk

The point is, your take on “adventurous” or “ethnic” food is pretty privileged and insulting for those of us who grew up with those foods. My mom often made a huge pot of miso soup or stew and we would eat that with rice for 2-3 days. And now you’re here whining about how you’ve made paella, but good thing you’ve got tofu coming, so your kids can continue to cultivate their palate! [/quote]

Yes, I am "privileged" in that I am hoping to provide my family more than miso and rice.  Sorry, I am not going to apologize for that.  (And for the paella, I was responding to people who claimed I clearly never cooked and was unable to do so.  It was also very clear that was something I made [i]before[/i] I ran short of basic supplies.  Mentioning tofu would hopefully allow people to offer suggestions and also to explain that we had enough to eat, so I wasn't willing to risk going to the store.)

Your claim that this is "insulting" is ridiculous.  The point is the variety.  It sounds like you are likely Asian, so you grew up with Asian food and flavors.  (And of course I know there is a huge variation in Asian cooking.  I don't want to guess more particularly about your background.)  But, you may not have been exposed to cuisines from the Middle East, for example, so that would be more adventurous for you.  For someone from the Middle East, Asian cuisine might be more adventurous because it is less the norm.  Plenty of kids, regardless of background, eat only very simple, plain foods.  So a kid who will eat a wide variety of foods and flavors can reasonably be called an "adventurous" eater, regardless of what this kid's particular heritage is.

As for your actual suggestions, thank you.  We haven't done noodles in a peanut sauce for a long time and that is a good idea that we can probably pull off with what we have.  (If I recall, smooth peanut butter was better, but we can make our chunky work I am sure.)  [/quote]

The point is that you can make all kinds of things from what you have. Maybe you are way too strict about recipes. Yes, you can use chunky PB, wtf! Just try it. Yes, my parents are East Asian but we also grew up eating spaghetti, hummus, Schwarma, Jewish deli food, Polish food, etc. There wasn’t a big deal made about it, it’s just food. I guess I grew up to be an “adventurous eater” by your standards, but eating the same pot of soup for three days straight didn’t prevent me from developing my oh so sophisticated palate. TLDR is basically get over yourself. If you were that worried about it, you’d be making grilled cheese a lot less. [/quote]

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