What about eating issues?

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What about eating issues?
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Fri, 06-10-2005 - 2:24pm

We have debated sleeping issues to death once again....so what about another one of the issues of childhood....eating and/or not eating?


My kids eat just about anything and have a pretty well rounded diet.

PumpkinAngel

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Tue, 06-14-2005 - 6:41pm
Yeah, well, people who don't RSVP are kinda on their own, aren't they? That's like.....a whole 'nother rant. But I could tell you stories.....
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Tue, 06-14-2005 - 6:41pm
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Tue, 06-14-2005 - 6:41pm
Perhaps it's a German thing?
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Registered: 12-29-2004
Tue, 06-14-2005 - 6:44pm
I'm from Berlin, too. All kinds of unusual food preferences. One hundred kinds of hot dogs. "Wurst"!
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Registered: 12-29-2004
Tue, 06-14-2005 - 6:47pm
Oh, yes. We can always use the "No RSVP" defense if worse comes to worst. "If you'd told me you were lactose intolerant, we would have had something else besides fondue!"
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Tue, 06-14-2005 - 6:52pm
The best fish I ever had was at a restaurant in Boulder, CO. I think it was called Jax. They flew fish in from both coasts every day. I had the pompano.
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Registered: 09-04-1997
Tue, 06-14-2005 - 6:55pm

I'm very good at the "Oh dear, I am so very sorry....if we had known you were coming, we would have set a place for you at the table....let's see what we can do....we can all squeeze together somehow, I am sure....and I'll be glad to share my Cornish Game Hen with you....they're always too much for me anyway."

I confess we went on a family reunion weekend with DH's family one year when two members of the family were vegan, one couldn't eat anything with raw onions in it, one didn't do dairy, one was allergic to soy, and there were two little kids who wouldn't eat anything green. It was tough. On my night to cook I just fried up some ground beef and some a separate dish of black beans, grated the cheese, and cut up about ten kinds of veggies and condiments and then told everybody that it was "Make your own burrito night" and if there was something they couldn't eat, just to skip it.

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Registered: 12-10-2003
Tue, 06-14-2005 - 7:01pm
For some reason, that reminded me of when I lived back in MI as a kid on the lake. We would catch the fish from the lake and then beg the adults to clean and cook it for us to eat. My grandma would fry it up for us and then we would eat it and then decide it wasn't quite what we expected. It was like eating lake water! So gross. But I remember how we wanted to cook up the fish we caught and we were sooooo excited. There was always hot dogs cooked as a back up. Luckily my taste in fish has evolved since then!
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Registered: 03-28-2003
Tue, 06-14-2005 - 7:03pm

I'm thinking maybe she doesn't necessarily want to please that particular guest?

I'm wondering if the same practice would be used if the guest were someone influential to her or her dh's career? If the guest were her nanny or her in-laws? Someone she was actually interested in pleasing and/or impressing?

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 06-14-2005 - 7:07pm

But do you eat them?

I also prepare foods for DH that he likes, but I don't eat them if I don't like them.

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