Today I went to Google to see if I could find some easy dinner recipes. I found some. Read them over and one by one said to myself, “yeh. Good luck getting anyone in my house to eat that.” Then I did a search for easy dinner ideas for picky eaters and what did I find? A gazillion recipes for picky kids. What makes everyone think that kids are the picky eaters? Yeh, some of my kids are picky eaters but the biggest pain in my rear isn’t my kids. It’s my hubby. And I really don’t think that badly of him because I know a lot of adult picky eaters.
Here I am though, at noon, still trying to think of something to make for dinner. I have hamburger, chicken, roast, and steaks. This is the meat I buy almost all the time. Occasionally I will buy pork chops or corned beef. I can’t make casseroles. I can’t make meat loaf. I can’t make anything unique like stir fry. I can’t even make spaghetti. Well, my kids will eat spaghetti but the big guy won’t. It gets really irritating because I am the opposite of a picky eater. I will eat just about anything. I have eaten brains, calamari, venison, ground hog, goat-something-or-other when I was in Jamaica, and fish-head soup when I was in Fiji. I am not picky. I like eating different things and get so tired of being stuck eating this boring food my family likes to eat.
I usually don’t cook from a recipe. I usually just cook the meat on the stove top or in the oven with some seasoning and then serve a side of potatoes or rice and a veggie. This is my daily routine for our meals. The kids and hubby all like Mexican food fortunately so we do eat some good home-made enchiladas or burritos several times a month, but that is like the only meal that I make that I just love.
I am adventurous when it comes to food and I am feeling deprived at the moment. When Kelly and I were first married, I was a vegetarian. I used to cook separate meals and I kind of miss that. I gave up vegetarianism when I got pregnant with Lyndsey and now cooking two meals would have to be more like three meals. Brandon is extremely difficult to feed. When he was a little one, we went to a feeding clinic because the kid just wouldn’t eat. Even now, he often eats cereal for dinner because he doesn’t eat any meat, doesn’t like potatoes or rice (sometimes I can get him to eat it), and eats hardly any veggies. He has told me he is a vegetarian before but he doesn’t really understand what that means. He thinks it means people that don’t eat things they don’t like. He will eat some meat but only if it is ground up and in something. Like, he will eat hamburger in spaghetti or burritos, but he won’t eat a hamburger. The only exception to his no-meat rule is that he will eat chicken nuggets. So, I have a lot of challenges in my house when it comes to dinner.
I want to eat something good tonight. My mini-moo is demanding it. What am I going to do?
Tags: picky eaters
I would send you some of the bolognese I made tonight but we just finished eating it! Seriously, I go through phases where I feel frustrated with the same foods over and again too. Sometimes my DH and I will have seperate meals because we both like certain things that the other doesn’t, but in our house it’s Angelica that’s the most difficult one to cater for. I have to say, when you said you had eaten brains I started thinking of zombie movies! Lol
It is tough, but our household is reversed–I am hugely picky and Jay is much like you and he gets bored. I wish I had good ideas for you, but if you can’t do casseroles. I do have a yummy spicy Italian Beef in a slow cooker if you are interested….
It is tough when everyone else is so picky. Daryl’s family (whom we live with) is the pickiest group of eaters I know. And they like everything BLAND.. no season whatsoever. If I put any seasoning in a dish, they call it “spicy” LOL whatever! When it’s my turn to cook (which is pretty much every night, but I don’t mind because I like to cook and I look at it as doing my part-we live here rent free after all!) I try to make things that can be tailored to everyone’s tastes. Individual portions with different ingredients for everyone, but everyone is eating “the same” thing. Soup is a big hit, as well as any basic meat; I just find different ways to cook the meat. One time we had ribs three times in two weeks, each time cooked a different way (crock pot, broiled, grilled) So it was a bit of variety for me, and the same meat that everyone likes.