my kids are 7 and 9 and my wife coddles the shit out of them. They eat very little. Mac and cheese, pizza, grilled cheese, spaghetti.....that's pretty much it actually. They don't even eat peanut butter.

Anyway we have to make them a separate dinner for them every night. Even then they pick at it like birds, but woooaaahh, they are interested in DESSERT!

Anyway, is there ANYONE else out there that has to deal with this? When I was a kid, I was raised pretty much by my Polish grandparents, which meant I had to eat every goddam thing on the plate...liver, mushy brussel sprouts, canned peas, saurkraut. you name it, I ate it!

my kids are 7 and 9 and my wife coddles the shit out of them. They eat very little. Mac and cheese, pizza, grilled cheese, spaghetti.....that's pretty much it actually. They don't even eat peanut butter.

Anyway we have to make them a separate dinner for them every night. Even then they pick at it like birds, but woooaaahh, they are interested in DESSERT!

Anyway, is there ANYONE else out there that has to deal with this? When I was a kid, I was raised pretty much by my Polish grandparents, which meant I had to eat every goddam thing on the plate...liver, mushy brussel sprouts, canned peas, saurkraut. you name it, I ate it!

my kids are 7 and 9 and my wife coddles the shit out of them. They eat very little. Mac and cheese, pizza, grilled cheese, spaghetti.....that's pretty much it actually. They don't even eat peanut butter.

Anyway we have to make them a separate dinner for them every night. Even then they pick at it like birds, but woooaaahh, they are interested in DESSERT!

Anyway, is there ANYONE else out there that has to deal with this? When I was a kid, I was raised pretty much by my Polish grandparents, which meant I had to eat every goddam thing on the plate...liver, mushy brussel sprouts, canned peas, saurkraut. you name it, I ate it!

You need to nip that in the bud.

My wife's cousin has two kids. One is 16, and the other is 12, and they are still making separate meals for them. No fruits, no vegetables, just the usually fare you listed above (mac & cheese, pizza, etc...). When did this separate meal thing start with parents? My parents would have smacked me upside the head if I asked for a different meal.

my wife was scarred by her father (they were divorced) who made her eat "grizzly" meat. no not from a bear.

eat what's on the plate or go to bed hungry
doesn't seem too complicated to me


(i don't have kids so i can oversimplify everything)

We couldn't afford meat at most meals. Grizzly meat would have been welcome.

My choice was eat or dont.

growing up if we ever had steak, it was round steak...
and my god, my mom loved these giant pork roasts that had to have been like 3/4 fat and gristle. where the hell was pork tenderloin in the 80's ??

By 10 I was cooking dinner for me and my sister and we still didnt get good stuff . it was whatever the recipe and meat my mom left out for me after school and before she got home from work.

growing up if we ever had steak, it was round steak...
and my god, my mom loved these giant pork roasts that had to have been like 3/4 fat and gristle. where the hell was pork tenderloin in the 80's ??

At least you got that, I got Spam.

We cooked what we could shoplift.

We cooked what we could shoplift.

Did we ever find out what type of meat Grizzly meat is if not from a bear?

Nah, Crest I think it used to be called Treat back in the day, but my mom would fry it up and stick it on white bread. Thank God times got better as I got older.