Anonymous wrote:I wish I were just a troll, but I keep posting because I care about this issue of being too child-centered in the American way of parenting.

Anonymous wrote:I think I ate hot dogs for dinner every night for a solid year. I ate Apple Jacks for breakfast everyday. I was very picky (and my dad was very ill at the time, so my mom didn't fight it). I'm not picky now, but I still don't like pumpkin pie.

Is the same person still harassing the OP? What is wrong with that person?

Anonymous wrote:I do not make any special foods for kids at Thanksgiving. My kids eat almost anything adults eat (barring alcohol). Because I have exposed them to a variety of foods, my kids have been able to appreciate eating at fine restaurants all over Europe.

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Anonymous wrote:You can believe what you want to believe. I am only making one dessert.

If it were my mother I would also want to make a dessert she likes. Maybe that is pandering but I actually want to please my guests if I am going to make a dessert. My point was I dont want to make the typical pies because many of the guests (very small group) won't enjoy them.

Why don't you start a separate thread about picky eaters?

I never said you were making two desserts. Can't you read? I said, "an alternative dessert," in which "an" means "one." Sigh.

Huh? You are starting with the assumption that Tgiving must have pumpkin pie or apple pie I guess? So the alternative is to those? This makes no sense at all.

I think pumpkin pie is one of those things that a lot of people don't really like but have only because it's traditional. This is why you don't see it much outside of one day a year (kind of like turkey which people admitted on another thread that they don't really like). So I don't start with the assumption that one has to have pumpkin pie. It's a very small group- nobody will be disappointed not to have it (for those of you concerned).

No, OP is the one who first mentioned apple pie and pumpkin pie, in her original post. She said she was looking for an alternative to those two pies that her children (didn't mention herself at the time, or any other people) would like because her children dislike applie pie and pumpkin pie. Read the OP, please.

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Anonymous wrote:You can believe what you want to believe. I am only making one dessert.

If it were my mother I would also want to make a dessert she likes. Maybe that is pandering but I actually want to please my guests if I am going to make a dessert. My point was I dont want to make the typical pies because many of the guests (very small group) won't enjoy them.

Why don't you start a separate thread about picky eaters?

I never said you were making two desserts. Can't you read? I said, "an alternative dessert," in which "an" means "one." Sigh.

Huh? You are starting with the assumption that Tgiving must have pumpkin pie or apple pie I guess? So the alternative is to those? This makes no sense at all.

I think pumpkin pie is one of those things that a lot of people don't really like but have only because it's traditional. This is why you don't see it much outside of one day a year (kind of like turkey which people admitted on another thread that they don't really like). So I don't start with the assumption that one has to have pumpkin pie. It's a very small group- nobody will be disappointed not to have it (for those of you concerned).

I don't assume that people don't like pumpkin pie (though I don't) but I also don't assume that it is required.

You assume people don't like pumpkin pie? On what basis? I lknow lots of people who love pumpkin pie. We always have pumpkin pie.

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Anonymous wrote:You can believe what you want to believe. I am only making one dessert.

If it were my mother I would also want to make a dessert she likes. Maybe that is pandering but I actually want to please my guests if I am going to make a dessert. My point was I dont want to make the typical pies because many of the guests (very small group) won't enjoy them.

Why don't you start a separate thread about picky eaters?

I never said you were making two desserts. Can't you read? I said, "an alternative dessert," in which "an" means "one." Sigh.

Huh? You are starting with the assumption that Tgiving must have pumpkin pie or apple pie I guess? So the alternative is to those? This makes no sense at all.

I think pumpkin pie is one of those things that a lot of people don't really like but have only because it's traditional. This is why you don't see it much outside of one day a year (kind of like turkey which people admitted on another thread that they don't really like). So I don't start with the assumption that one has to have pumpkin pie. It's a very small group- nobody will be disappointed not to have it (for those of you concerned).

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Anonymous wrote:You can believe what you want to believe. I am only making one dessert.

If it were my mother I would also want to make a dessert she likes. Maybe that is pandering but I actually want to please my guests if I am going to make a dessert. My point was I dont want to make the typical pies because many of the guests (very small group) won't enjoy them.

Why don't you start a separate thread about picky eaters?

I never said you were making two desserts. Can't you read? I said, "an alternative dessert," in which "an" means "one." Sigh.

Huh? You are starting with the assumption that Tgiving must have pumpkin pie or apple pie I guess? So the alternative is to those? This makes no sense at all.

I think pumpkin pie is one of those things that a lot of people don't really like but have only because it's traditional. This is why you don't see it much outside of one day a year (kind of like turkey which people admitted on another thread that they don't really like). So I don't start with the assumption that one has to have pumpkin pie. It's a very small group- nobody will be disappointed not to have it (for those of you concerned).

Anonymous wrote:How about carrot cake? My cousins' other grandmother always made one for Thanksgiving and I still get a little misty-eyed thinking about that cake.

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Anonymous wrote:One year I made rice krispie treats in the shape of turkeys, pumpkins, etc. Look online for decoration tips. If you kids are old enough they can help decorate too. And (gasp) all the adults enjoyed them too!

Oh, honey. Your kids are going to grow up to be cereal killers.

(Rice Krispie treat maker here) I know right? I am totally ruining them by spending an afternoon with them making a dessert!!! Thank goodness the good parents of DCUM is showing me the err of my ways. Now we will be able to enjoy fine dining all over Europe.

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Anonymous wrote:You can believe what you want to believe. I am only making one dessert.

If it were my mother I would also want to make a dessert she likes. Maybe that is pandering but I actually want to please my guests if I am going to make a dessert. My point was I dont want to make the typical pies because many of the guests (very small group) won't enjoy them.

Why don't you start a separate thread about picky eaters?

I never said you were making two desserts. Can't you read? I said, "an alternative dessert," in which "an" means "one." Sigh.

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Anonymous wrote:One year I made rice krispie treats in the shape of turkeys, pumpkins, etc. Look online for decoration tips. If you kids are old enough they can help decorate too. And (gasp) all the adults enjoyed them too!

Oh, honey. Your kids are going to grow up to be cereal killers.

Anonymous wrote:You can believe what you want to believe. I am only making one dessert.

If it were my mother I would also want to make a dessert she likes. Maybe that is pandering but I actually want to please my guests if I am going to make a dessert. My point was I dont want to make the typical pies because many of the guests (very small group) won't enjoy them.

Why don't you start a separate thread about picky eaters?