Eek! What can I cook??

Graham_S_4

give her an eel tortilla
maybe not - i have no kids so won't even bother offering advice.

Ta

G

Graham_S_4

could you not leave her in the kitchen and let her cook what she wants ??

it might only be cornflakes but at least she will have eaten

Cheers

G

apple_mint

Mine would live off cheese sandwiches until the cheese ran out :rolleyes:

Graham_S_4

as much as i'm not really fussed about Jamie "the essex warrior" oliver - his heart is in the right place - if locking her in the kitchen with a wholemeal sliced and 18 fish fingers doesn;t work then work out what your meal would cost to make - per portion - give her nothing to eat but give her the cash - and send her out to get her own food (sorry don't know how old she is - but you get the idea)

my slow cooked chilli cost about 35p per portion - bag of crisps if you are lucky

Graham

apple_mint

I took my 18 year old round the supermarket yesterday - showed her the cost of food, told her how much a portion it costs to make from scratch ... and how much I would charge her if she wanted the expensive option:eek:.

She got the hint.

Pooky

I wouldn't be pandering to a 14 years olds fussy nature - I know it's difficult when she's used to a different way of eating at home.

I'd do the omlette and wedges and if she didn't like it - let her go hungry.

Oh I'm mean!

Graham_S_4

i'm sure when i was 14 i could burn my own omlette

leave em to it

just make sure you have fresh batteries in the smoke alarm

G

apple_mint

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I've seen this happen soooo many times!

Noozan

Thanks for all the advice! To be honest, I don't like pandering to her fussy nature either. It's not entirely her fault as DH and his ex used to pander to her (ex still does) and would always cook her another meal or buy her a takeaway etc if she didn't eat what was cooked for the first time, but I refuse to do this.

I try to be as accommodating as I can, without pandering, as now that she's older and is out with her friends alot more, we don't see her as often as we used to. I don't want there to be a tense/frosty atmosphere or fight too much over food as I want her to enjoy spending time here and with DH.

I've tried the "well you can cook comething yourself" tactic a couple of times but she just whined and whined until DH gave in and went to buy a McDonalds :mad: The one time he tried to resist; she said "but you always buy me something when I complain" and then promptly phoned her mum to whine to her too.

I think I will do the omelette and wedges idea and see how it goes.

squeaky

For more ideas that you might be able to adapt there are several threads listed under "fussy eaters" in the Cooking section of the MEGA Index