I rushed frantically about the Kitchen. The good lady wanted some vegetarian meatball nonsense. I was feeling fantastically animalistic and was rolling up bits of minced beef for my own meatballs and the little lady insisted on having bolognese because... Meatballs are yucky... Hmmm.
It was a tough balancing act but after the jungles of Peru in '68, it was child's play to me.
I sashayed out of the kitchen and dumped the little lady's spaghetti bolognese before her. Then I scooched round to the other side and placed the good lady's soy/cheezyfeet/cardboard meatballs down in front of her.
Finally, I went back into the kitchen and returned with my own Kingly dish of Manjano balls is a devilishly spicy sauce.
We all got ready to eat. I lifted my fork in eager anticipation.
Just like any other meal time the little lady looked suspiciously at her dinner. Poking it a few times with her fork.
Daddy, did you sneak carrots in this?
No lass. That is nothing but bolognese and spaghetti.
I had learned my lesson from months before. The little lady has always been a clever little chop and one day whilst eating some bolognese she had gone into full secret-veggy rage and demanded to know why there were grated carrots ruining her amazing dinner.
What could I say?
Eh, yes, subterfuge my girl. That's how we parent!!
So instead I acted surprised like I had thought that was the way she liked it and promised, never, ever, to do such a heinous thing again.
So this time when she asked I could assure her that they were unadulterated by veggy rubbish.
Still looking suspicious, she poked her fork around a bit before popping some in her mouth.
Mmm, this bolognese is delicious but I am not eating the spaghetti. Don't you know I hate spaghetti?
Well, no. I didn't know that. In fact, it was fucking breaking news to me. She loves spaghetti?! Or rather, she loved spaghetti. I guess that was one more to add to the ever-increasing list of foods that were no longer in favour.
It was a tad worrying, there weren't many foods left in the able to eat category.
Oh well. I prepared to tuck into mine. Just as I stuck my fork into my bowl, the good lady decided it was time to pipe up.
Can I have fresh water?
She motioned at the little boom who was frantically and noisily trying to deflate her via the booben. I sighed and put my fork down and headed into the kitchen to get her water.
I came back and settled in to eat my amazeballs.
The good lady jiggled the little boom up and down on her lap. He smiled the triumphant smile of a man who has just gnawed a pair of bing bongs half to death.
This little guy will be starting on the solids in a couple of weeks!
She exclaimed excitedly.
I stared at her in horror, my gaze flicking to her dish, then the little lady's dish and finally mine. Three separate dishes.
Solid foods?
I intoned, like an imbecile who is chewing toffee.
Yes, weaning! Isn't it exciting?
I grinned a skull grin and nodded my head forward like a depressed bear in captivity.
Oh yes, that will be magic. Can't wait...
Four dinners. Aiyee, I don't know if I can take it.
Not for the first time I looked downward at my own giblets and cursed my infernal penisery for getting me into this mess.
Gardenlady's Rule #1 : when cooking dinner for growing family, there is to be just ONE meal, and ONE meal only!
(I always had a nice buttered baguette to go along with most meals in case some decided to be finicky.)
Without this rule, I would have been taken away long ago by the men in white coats.
Haha, I so agree. I do the bread thing too tight enough. It saves my sanity when nothing is being eaten at least I know that the bread will be. I personally blame the good lady for causing the multi mealed madness but don't tell her I said ;0)
ahahahah you made me laugh :D
We have one child with crazy allergies, and another who, like your Little Lady, seems to be getting pickier each day, so there are always multiple dishes for our meals.
I think it's amazing that you're making not just 1 or 2, but 3 dinners! What are you? Some type of mutant?!? My husband looks at me like I've got 3 noses if I ask him to make a simple lunch. He might just have a heart attack if I asked him to make multiple dishes!
Good for you realizing your part in this chaos! Lol! Good luck with weaning! Looking forward to more dinner theatre! Lol!
It is a fair old stramash! I normally make two. One floor us and one for the daughter but someone's it just gets mad and everyone wants separate stuffs!!
Did I miss something? Is today your beer tasting day or is are you speaking in tongues? Didn't quite follow your comment good sir? Is auto-correct wreaking havoc on you? Just teasing. Always a pleasure to read your posts. I know you're a busy man, what with all your multiple personalities, er, um, I mean secret identities, but here's my very first vlog that was a result of insolent children. If you feel so inclined, take a peek!
Just had a second thought, is that appropriate to share my link in a reply? Still learning the etiquette around here. I was one who used to comment without upvoting when my % was low, thinking I was being polite. 🤣I certainly don't want to spam anyone.
I don't mind your link :0) I will have a look at lunchtime.
Yes, I had a read of my reply. It was a rushed one as I was getting off the train and my phone appears to have autocorrected it into gibberish. Lol!!!
Quick question. When you "downvote", is that the same as flagging? I can't seem to find a post explaining if there is a difference and if so, how to go about it. I'm just starting to experience some spamming on my posts and trying to figure out how best to handle it.
You're the most matter-of-fact downvoter I've witnessed. (Yes, that's a compliment.) You acknowledge it directly, kind of like taking on a bully. I also enjoy the humour you've been using with your video replies lately too. Anyway, thanks for always entertaining us and in this case, perhaps educating us newbies a bit too! :-)
Hehe, thank you!
Yes, flagging and downvoting is the same thing. Downvoting is just a much nicer way of putting it.
I genuinely believe that it is the best answer to deter spammers however, I would warn you to be careful that you don't spark off a downvote war. People can be so touchy lol!!
Happens to me all the time! Other times, I've fallen asleep trying to put my toddler to nap and he has actually sent out crazy text messages and replies! Haha!
Good for you for multi-tasking! It gave me a chuckle anyway.
Kids go through that awkward stage of not wanting to eat certain foods. The carrots get hidden in chocolate muffins. Personally, every once in a while a do put carrots in my spaghetti sauce. But I do know what it is like trying to please everybody. Then I took a page out of grandma's book. You eat what the cook makes ready. If you don't like it you have two choices, either go hungry, or you prepare the food next time around. I found no-one wanted to go hungry and when they discovered how much work it is to prepare meals, no more complaints. Amazing!
I am in a tricky position of finding any good without chilli boring. So I have to make my own separate. Sigh I guess I will have to bland up and get with the rest of the team, sob!
No the rest of the team could join you. Small doses at a time. I add chilli to almost everything and then I have a bottle of homemade chilli on the table as well for those that like extra. The health benefits of eating chilli are amazing.
I like the sound of your house! The good lady is fine with it but the daughter hates it. I have tried tiny amounts at a time, she can't stand it!
She's young yet. Give it a wee bit of time. She'll come around.
I am sure she will, I did!
You remember the days before we had kids? Saying nonsense like... My child will never do that , he/she will fit in with us. If they do not eat the food I make they will just go hungry...bla bla bla. Oh how naive we were and then BAM your kitchen turns into a restaurant and you trying to remember who eats what. Hmmmm kids are rulers of our destiny. Welcome to parenthood and the ever changing tastes and whims. Good luck with the new menu.
You are so right. The almost pretentious way we thought that we would do things differently from these nutty parents. And now here we are! Lol
Way back in the dim darks, before the P C wave hit, as kids we were served a meal, we had the choice, eat it now, or wait until breakfast and have it then, or if you were still holding out, guess what was for lunch.
That included such fine delicacies as tripe, liver, heart, the only one I got away with was artichoke [the in the ground type] and you don't want to hear how I got away with that one.
Yeek. Even the thought of liver and tripe gives me the major heebies!!!
I suspect their was done kind of vomiting to get out of the artichoke!
yes, after the third time eating everything else on the plate, then being ordered to eat it and having it bounce and come up at the end of a meal, all over the table of course. I was allowed to say no to that.
Liver is a bit dry, needs lots of gravy. I haven't had tripe since I was 16 and left home. heart is quite nice muscelly meat.
ps you were my 5,000 post, are congratulations in order? if so well done.
Your daughter must be hilarious and at the same time a nightmare! I was also very difficoult at eating when I was a child. I didn't eat anything too soft (like egg's yolk), no onion and nothing that was green!
My mum had to hide food in my food. Such a spoiled kid!
And now I even eat ants in Cambodia auhauahuahauha
It's amazing how we can change. I aye nothing but bread and noodles when I was young and now I eat vegetables like a man possessed.
I would like to try ants!
Your little lady is so fussy about eating food, especially vegetables. You should try giving her rice instead with some Malay gravies such as "Sambal Udang" (Prawn Sambal). A spicy prawn recipe. See if she liked it :) Upvoted!
Source: Google (Sambal Udang)
She likes praws, didn't like spicy sauces of any description I keep working on her though!
My mom still makes the food the way I like it when I visit her - no onions please hahaha it looks like an ongoing thing for parents
Yeek, don't say that!! Then again, so does my mum!
Hahaha moms are awesome -
Hahahahaha, it's a chef's day today!, in a couple of weeks, the little boom will be an ally, just take a protective long break before your infernal penisery lands you a player to the team. Thanks for cracking me up with your write-ups. Good night. Less I forget, do you have a discord channel?
I am on discord yeah, I dont have a channel so much
I hope he will be an ally, I suspect he will be nightmare!
What is your discord tag sir?, and if he will be a nightmare which you can't categorically tell, he will undoubtedly be a loving nightmare🤣 little boom boom
It's very possible that the first thing he will say is....
"Pass me the carrots dad, and a caramel flavored citrus hopped IPA."
Haha, that would be magic!!
Although it is hard to prepare four dishes, that is a very good sign, dear friend @meesterboom. The little Boom is growing fast. Soon you will have a partner to play soccer in the garden.
I wish you a wonderful week
Hehe, you are not the first to say that my friend!!
And you just had to ruin my Zoo Sundays forever, man...
Haha, good old Zoo Sundays!!
good @meesterboom you're really in a huge mess!
it's war is very difficult, I think most children are like that when they're little, little by little you can test if she accepts them.
my 3-year-old baby does not like "onions, garlic, chili and things like that", but he's smart just eat the day we're going to go out to the park
He says: I've already eaten I can go to the park!
although some meatloaf with spicy.
uff! they have no comparison
Son realmente ricas!
Lol, yes. She has been through many phases. Just when it seems we are getting used to one she changes it up again!
may I promo about you and write something about you I see you always give a small fish bait
No thank you, I don't really like people writing about me :0)
I understand your daughter thinking you were hiding carrots in her food. My mom tried to get us to like liver because it is so good for you. She would smother it in gravy and serve it as though it were country fried steak and gravy but we were never fooled. The smell was entirely different and revolting as I remember it.
Oh man yeah, liver stinks. I have bever been able to eat it without feeling sick!
These four dishes happening looks like cultural habit, in many countries :)...It sounds familiar to me as well...These new born kids have very similar activities... I thought that mine is too active, too much screaming, too much tablet, too much "This Yes, for eating, this No for eating"...Broccoli, carrots, cauliflower,...one Big definite NOOOO...And Actually many parents face this eating revolution...
They do, every parent I talk to you laments the same thing, that their kid doesnt eat a varied enough diet. I remember being a nightmare myself when younger lol!
Yes, absolutely...Eating home fried chips was like cult for me 🍟and most of all other dishes - vegetables etc. the work of the devil...👹
Hubby says the same thing with having a vegetarian in the family, he has to cook different meals, constant moaning as he cooks quorn for nick then food for us :)
The separate meals is hellish! I am thinking it's gonna have to be a giant one pot dinner for all in future!
Make bulk meals that last 2 days... I used to do that it did make eating time a lot easier :)
hahaha :p
Now never Bought spaghetti for, I Told you she is very clever ;)
She is indeed!
I got my niece and nephew to eat broccoli and potato soup once by calling it shrek soup. It's all the marketing!
I have tried numerous such things but thanks for reminding me as I had completely gotten out of the way of doing that kind of thing!
Spaghetti is the best creation in the world and with bologna is the best combination.
I couldn't agree more! It actually hurt to hear her diss the dish!
How awful
I recovered quickly ;0)
LOL, father like chicken rain when in interrogation at her. All very fun to read, but my eyes focused in this section. Why? Boom, fixed the father wise :-) Sorry joking :-) Mean, it should be a father like that. 🙏
Hehe, yes it is good to be straight up with them :0)
So, boom fear little girl? 😂😂
Always!!!
I once tried adding pureed cauliflower into muffins to increase the vegetable count for the kids. They thought the muffins were great.
After the second batch, the girl child noticed the compost pile had cauliflower cuttings in it.
And that ... was the end of the cauliflower enhanced muffins.
We did that! We also used quinoa and other such madness. It always works the first time then had diminishing returns after that!
You sir are the master of working the penis (no pun intended) into your stories! Maybe you’ll have to go vegan to simplify things. By the by, I recall in one of your previous stories a birth date of 1971 was mentioned (yes throne where you shagged your mom), so the jungles of Peru in ‘68 might be a bit of a stretch, just sayin. Sorry to be a bit picker
That's alright, that's Uncle Boom, he's fictitious ;0)
Oh ok lol
;O)
ah yes, the joys of feeding, when all has a different taste. I was smart when it came to the "training" of our boys, you eat what we eat, or you go hungry! Was taught that by my old man, I think that was why I was so skinny as a kid... I've been making up for lost time since I've been married, although this has caused me other problems, I'm now an official member of the "dickey -doo club... my belly sticks out farther than my dickey-doo!
Haha, that is a club I am fighting against. Winning at the moment but who knows what the future holds!
Oh man, I feel your pain!! We have some of the pickiest kids at times that it makes me want to shoot myself. We totally do the mystery sauce when it comes to spaghetti. Thye have learned now to not question. Just shut up and eat it. Perhaps smile a little while you do. Just this week we had the out of nowhere removal from the eat list. WTF? How do you all of a sudden no longer eat eggs??? I know its in the form of a quiche but damn it you have always liked eggs up until this moment. Would you believe it if the kid wanted a hard-boiled egg for breakfast the next day? It took all the control I had to not blow a fuse right there. No wonder parents drink wine!!!
Wine is the great saviour!!
I have had the egg thing. Where she patiently explained that she couldn't abide eggs only to all for an omelette hours later. I am just living for the day when meal times aren't done mad battle of wills!
LOL! My siblings (I have 6 of them left) always claim to love veggies ... but don't seem to understand that more veggies exist than corn. And salad? Am I the only person left who actually enjoys a real tossed salad? Not that I'm vegetarian or vegan - I'm a confirmed carnivore; love meat and potatoes ... and salad and real veggies! And who doesn't like spaghetti?
Salads, yuck! I love before myself but am not the greatest fan of salads. Unless it is a cabbagey slaw type affair!
LOL! I only wish I could eat those cabbagey slaw types, but unfortunately am allergic to anything in the cabbage family ... which includes red cabbage (my fav), broccoli, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, etc. I really miss being able to have cabbage rolls and broccoli, but the others - not so much, hehehe.
Oh man, that would hurt. I quite like red cabbage myself. Brocolli is my go to vegetable as well!
Patience is a virtue...
I'm a bit confused, is your wife vegetarian? Or in a halfway house? She wants vegetarian meatballs, to accompany her meat-sauce she doesn't like veggies in?
You deserve a fucking award!
Lol, halfway house between meat and vegetarianism. She was a full fledged vegetarian for many years!!
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You can comment whenever you like! But if you think you can start commenting on my posts without voting you will not like the flags that you get
Thanks friend.
friend please help me.
Why, you didn't even vote for my post?
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a very wonderful story @meesterboom, I love it
will i upvoted and resteem
Nice photos. they deserve an award. It is very nice. great work
Well that's odd
She said you deserve award :p but have given her:p
I like to reward people :0)
So reward my new post :p
Hehe, I'm not really into logo's :0|
but you are art lover ;)
Nice photos. they deserve an award. It is very nice. great work