Who makes the most decisions about what everyone has for dinner?

That would be my moomma..She is the head chef in our house and just like you she gets really tired of thinking what to cook for dinner. I understand and I try to come up with suggestions and most of the time i offer help as well. But when im just about to cook up a storm, here she comes in the kitchen telling me im not marinating the chicken right or her most famous words "What are you doing to that chicken?! Thats not the right way to cut it! let me do it.." So me cooking in her zone is way out of the question nowadays.. i stick to just providing suggestions...

I make all of the decisions of what everyone is eating for dinner in our house hold. My boyfriend is not picky when it comes to food and will eat just about anything as long as it is food.

In our family, my mom is the one who always cook our food. Sometimes she would ask us what would we like to have and you're right about that sometimes we would just answer her back with "whatever!" especially if we are on the bad mood to talk. But besides that I'm the one who is usually gets followed on what kind of viand or food we're having cause if my mom cooks something that i don't like i would just yapped about what she cooked and let her cook another dish for me...lol...i know its a bit bad but I really just dont want to sit down at dinner with foods that i dont eat in front of me...

As the cook, I get to have the last say -- unless majority voted for pizza delivery. Fortunately, my husband and kids like what I serve them 99% of the time. I just avoid preparing "disaster" dishes (those that they didn't like the first time and went to our dogs instead). Still, when the budget is tight and I'm left with the most basic and cheapest ingredients to work with, I go "Eat or starve!" during dinner :p

My daughter and I discuss what we want for meals before we go shopping. Then we make a list for what we will need for the meals we went to make for the week. I find it nice to get the family involved in what is going to be for meals. That way I know I will be fixing things they want. And we will fix meals together.

Ya, I know how you feel everyday as dinner time draws closer! I have gone through this for a long time and come up with a time-table for dinner dishes for a week. This works out well for me since I donot have to break my head over the dishes to cook.

I face same thing evry day- all the time the thought running in my mind is what to cook, I wish I had my mom with me to tell me what to cook , it used to be so easy with her. cooking itself takes up less time but the menu does take whole lot of my time. Only solution I can offer you is what I use when they say"whatever"_then I cook the food I would like to eat and do not go back to them-if they do not like that-they can cook their own meal. My kids are small so a good scolding sorts them out and hubby doe tow the line after that.lol

I don't bother asking...I just make dinner from whatever I have on hand. When I'm too tired to figure out and fix something, we go out. :)

Sometimes, I or my father ask the family. Since it's only the two of us who are able to cook "real" food, we are the one's who also has the last say!;) Most of the times, I look for recipe books and also watch cooking shows so I can have some ideas on what food to cook. It also helps us (me and my father) to learn new recipes, which are mostly inspired by our native foods. I guess the important thing there is to capture that food's taste and texture, since looks can be sometimes deceiving!;)

i am a single mom of four and most of the time i decide. if i let them decide what to eat they might not choose veggies. i ask them every once in a while but luckily they enjoys fish and veggies.

Oftentimes I ask my husband on what it is to prepare for dinner but always always get the same response."it's up to you my dear".. So in the end,it's always me who decides on what to eat and cook. :) I salute your grandma..she must be a very very good homemaker and a cook. Before I schedule menu for a week but I got tired too,,and to think I've only been married a year and 5 months.

Since everybody in our house are grownups, the rules have changed a lot. When before we eat what our mother makes. Nowadays, we cook what we want. So if I want something different from what she prepares, then I buy, cook, and clean up. But anyone can have a share if they want to.

At this time, mostly I'm the one who decide and cook what we want to eat for dinner. But few months ago, when my husband was not busy with his work, he sometime decided about food for our dinner, since he was the one cook. It is not really easy to serve something different every time. But luckily we have internet so we can browse for new recipes for our dinner. Am I right?

I ask my family and I get the answer food or I don't care. The problem I have is I fix enough food for my daughter and husband and kids to eat. My daughter works night and her husband can not cook. My oldest grandson is in the 1st grade. So I try to help out and fix enough and take them the left overs so when my daughter gets home she don't have to fix anything then she can help her son with his homework. Out of the four I have two that is very picky of what they eat and the other two I don't have any troubles at all. Of course if I ask my grandson's they would tell me McDonalds all the time.

My husband and I sit down and sort of plan out what we'd like over the next couple of weeks. What my mom did when I was a kid was have a sort of theme for each day of the week. Maybe Monday was chicken, and every Monday we'd have a chicken dish. And another day would be pasta, and so we'd have four different pasta dishes that month. (Except that I really liked spaghetti, so we'd often have that more often). On Fridays we'd order in, and sometimes my mom would let us pick. On my dad's days off, he'd cook. That was interesting! Other types would be breakfast for dinner, or beef dishes, or vegetarian dishes (like stir fries), or messy dishes (like tacos). That way, everything was sort of similar, but different. And my mom didn't have to think about it too much. Some days it would be really simple stuff, like meatballs in mushroom sauce over rice with a salad. Once in a while, if I didn't have homework, she'd let us cook dinner. Even if she had other stuff planned, we'd still make spaghetti. It was the only thing we could all make without help from her or my dad. And without fighting. (I think the avoidance of fighting was the main criteria). I'd make up a food that was whatever. Something really strange, and then when they ask you what it is, you say "whatever". You could maybe make nacho chicken - Take small pieces of chicken, dip it into egg, dip it into crushed tortilla chips, and bake it how you would bake regular shake'n'bake chicken. This would take the annoyance out of "whatever". I hate it when kids say 'whatever'. It sounds so indifferent.

I decide. I never get any suggestions either, which doesn't put them in any position to complain about anything. They get what they eat, and eat what they get.

Hello heartuvgold, My meal planning depends on what the sales were for the week. I do my shopping on a day that I can also cook up some meals. I have several things available that are ready to eat for a meal. Maybe just add a vegetable to complete a meal or something. When I cook like that, I prepare plates of food that can just be taken out of the fridge and put in the microwave to heat. I make sure it is a balanced meal. That way my husband does not need to wake me to prepare the meal, and the grandkids have a meal ready for them to eat when they get home. Planning ahead saves me a lot of headaches. So I guess the final decision is mine. Happy posting..