When You've Slaved Away Over Dinner

My kids try to get away with this, but I usually make sure that they eat their dinner before eating too many snacks. It still happens occasionally, and yes it does bother me. I make sure that I tell them that I am bothered by it.

Oh Wolfie I have it all the time lol.. I am constantly slaving away on the stove lol and the kids will complain, one will say I don't like chicken, the other will say ugh we won't eat that and so on and so on..It is my constant battle and a battle of wills to try and get them all to eat healthy food and after my arduous preparations lol, they end up feeding the cat and dog with it!1 Well I mean I don't mind recycling Wolfie but sometimes I feel like going on strike lol. Wouldn't you? hhaa

I would not like someone to leave much food. If I cook for someone then I would hope that they would at least try to enjoy it. I think it would bother me to put alot of work into it and it not be appreciated.....

Doesn't bother me at all. If they enjoyed the meal I'm glad, if they didn't but respected me doing then I wouldn't mind either. I'd only be bothered if they didn't appreciate it. ~Joey

My husband does that too always try to eat something while I am cooking a big meal and I tell him to wait or hold on it will be ready in a minute you just can't rush me and I am not a bewitched to make things faster LOL my hubby will just laugh when I say that, but I have caught him several times he is just like a child I 'll get his hand and smack it and yet he laughs more. He must think it's funny oh well I can't teach him anything :) I agree it's better to have a good meal then you can have a desert. I was brought up like that.

What makes me more upset is when I have stod in there and cooked (sometimes several hours) and they tell...we'll eat in a few minutes...and it is cold by the time they actually begin eating.... it upsets me so much that I usually will end up not even eating myself..... I do not mind them eating other stuff after they have eaten a good dinner..I keep lots of fresh fruits...and other healthy snacks on hand..I also have a candy dish...but it is not soemthing that I let my son eat much of as a general rule....

I don't mind if they have eaten it all and then munch but I would mind if they had been munching all Day and then leave it my Kids sometimes did this to me and then one Day I didn't make any of course they asked where their Dinner was so I told them well it worked

Well I think you are a wonder kid for cooking great meals like that. Last time I cooked a meal my family barely survived and the pigs that had the leftovers went into shock! haha. Anybody that cooks a meal for me is an angel and I tell my wife that every single day. Don't you find this whole eating thing a habit? If you get used to nibbles after a meal then it becomes part of your diet and you get withdrawl symptoms if you cut it out. I remember joining a house full of Italians in Lusaka, Zambia after being on the road for months and eating very little. My first meal in the house was a shock. Eight courses!! I managed a bowl of delicious soup and half a plate of pasta and that was me finished. Six months later I was eating with the rest of them, course for course and enjoying it. A lot of it is just what you get used to.

Your poor Mum - that would drive me stark, raving bonkers! lol I have never had this problem as my family are all really good eaters - apart from me! lol Miss you honey and sending you big hugs! xxxxx ( pass them on to mum too!)

I once cooked for my girlfriend when my parents were out for someday and invited her , though i didnt mentioned the term dinner in the invetation , so when she came she was full and I was heart broken when she came to knew about the whole thing she said to keep all the food in the fridge and we would take it at night and so we did , i was first very sad but then when we had our grand dinner all the sorrows washed away ....

I did get fed up with spending so long properly preparing food that was not appreciated - although they were not allowed to have snacks. So we went on to quick cooking. Now they are older I keep saying I will prepare my own again but the computer keeps calling.

Nothing like that really happens much around my house. But I don't really pay much attention to it. The truth is, I don't hold my own cooking in very high regard so if I noticed someone not eating much at dinner I bet I would just assume it was my cooking. If my son begins to do this as he gets older I will probably just insist that he have fruit instead of junk later on when he finds himself hungry.

Sometimes it happens that I cook all the food taking extra effort and 90% of the food is left. What happens is that we all sit and chat and eat snacks, drinks juice etc. So, by the time it's dinner time, nobody is feeling hungry. It really is a bad thing to happen since we spend so much time cooking for all of them. I keep the remaining food in the fridge and think positively that next day I do not have to cook :) . Take it in a cool way.

Oh, I get upset. I make a lot of variety of meals and I'm always trying to make new things. Sometimes a recipe sounds good but it may end up being really nasty. It doesn't bother me if my husband doesn't like what I make because it's usually not my recipe. And I carefully choose recipes including stuff we both like. But it's the days that I spend hours on a recipe making a meal just for him, and he doesn't really eat it. Sometimes he'll snack right before because he's hungry and then he won't be hungry for the meal. So he'll just want to take it to work the next morning. This is a very rare occasion but it really bothers me. When we're getting ready for bed, I don't go and sleep outside after he's worked a long day on the job. That would show unapprecation for what he does! It's the same thing.

I spent about five hours on German dish once, and i went so far as to ask my ex if they would actually eat it if I took the time to make it,and they said yes.So i made it, they came home late ran to the other room with the toddler,and they were eting smuggled in macdonaald's before i could even say anything.Why?I asked first! They're not an ex for nothing,lol.

With a husband and 5 children I have pretty much run the gauntlet on this senario. Been there done it a hundred times.

:LOL:- well I guess it would if I was the kind of person who ever slaved away for hours over a hot stove - but - you know me...... y motto is why waste hours fiddling round with something that is ultimately only going to become "waste" from the body anyway, when you could be lazy and spend more time on the Internet or sleeping (LOL!), with a perfectly adequate takeaway from the local pizza place!? However - I'm sure if I was looking at things from a domesticated woman's perspective, then I would be pretty annoyed too!

I'm not bothered at all as long as they are eating what I prepared. What gets me really annoyed is when I have been working so hard to cook for them and they do not eat the food I cooked and would rather go to a party. For me, that would be a slap to my face. So far so good, no one has skipped the food I cooked. :)

i will be cool for all the things i have done.... it entirely depends on indivudal feeling and i leave them to their decision and for that i have a trick .... i.e i will release one by one item for and party so that they will the curisoty what we are going to eat....thereby every one will eat full stomach... i need that one only... so i will be happy....

oh man, do I know what that feels like. It can take me two hrs to make a meal or i could be cooking and baking all day long. Put everyone at the table and this one isn't hungry yet or that one doesn't like the vegitable that i've chosen or like you said someone was eating sweets all day and now can't get their dinner down. If I have to argue with one more person about eating the dinner that took me so long to prepare, I swear I'm going on strike and everyone will starve or fend for themselves.