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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Registered: 10-18-2003
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 2:19pm
Oh come on PNJ ... now if we like to do errands, etc as a family we're *desperate* for couple of family time?


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Registered: 10-16-2003
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 2:24pm

We do almost all our errands as a family on Saturdays. It's quite fun actually.

We shop European style...going to the produce guy for vegetables, the fish market for fish, the butcher for meat...although we do go to the supermarket too! And yes, sometimes the kids get cranky but overall the fun times outweigh the tantruming moments.

On weekdays my DH insists on taking at least one of the kids on a grocery run...that's his one-on-one time with the each child. And they always come back with tell-tale signs that they stopped at the Mr. Softee truck for a cone. LOL

 

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Registered: 09-25-2003
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 2:27pm

I don't have a set number of hours. . .it's a feeling more than a quota that must be met.


Also, being at home (even with the kids) is a good facsimile of 'alone' time for me. . .that is time when I don't have to be 'on'. . .I'm just Mom.


Virgo

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Thu, 06-16-2005 - 2:44pm

I'm sorry, that means you haven't been invited to eat at my house and you probably don't have friends like me and for some reason, I'm relatively sure you'll get over it.

We don't usually ask for menu suggestions (although that was a very creative leap on your part); it is usually more of a process where dh says, "I've noticed at business lunches that Jeanne doesn't eat red meat and I know that David has been raving about white wine lately." He calls them after the initial invite and says something like, "Is there anything that you really don't like to eat and do you guys like Australian wine?" Or he'll run our tentative menu by them to see if there are any conflicts.

I don't live a culturally limited life. We do tend to entertain on a small basis (one family at a time or one or two couples at a time.) When we are having an open house, we do not make a big deal out of guests preferences because there are way too many people. But on those occasions, there are quite a few different choices and no matter how picky someone is, there will most likely be something for them to eat or drink.

Maybe you are being invited to formal sit down dinner parties for thirty and I am talking about having four adult friends over for dinner and that is why we don't see this the same way?

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 2:50pm
Time with your kids is alone time? Non public time, I'd agree, but hardly downtime.

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Thu, 06-16-2005 - 2:54pm
England isn't cheap at all, but worth the trip in so many ways. My favorite place there that we saw was Bath.
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Registered: 09-25-2003
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 2:56pm
I guess my kids are just low-maintenance. . .yes, time at home (with our without the kids) is down time.

Virgo

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Registered: 12-29-2004
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 2:58pm
Or maybe some people just adore canned beef stew and Boone's Farm and assume everyone else does, too!
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Registered: 12-29-2004
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 2:59pm
If you don't like QM's Lunchables, you don't have to eat them!
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Registered: 11-12-2003
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 3:02pm
LOL... We were having dinner at dh's (notoriously cheap) great uncle's house, and he brought some Boone's to the table... "Would you care for some Boone County wine?"

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