You Can't Please Everyone
By AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16679)
Boston, Massachusetts
September 7, 2015 5:02pm CST
I had planned to make country fried steak with mashed potatoes and country gravy tonight, but I buy exactly enough cube steak for the three of us that eat it and no more than that. Unexpectedly, we have a guest. My son's friend is an extra mouth so no steak tonight.
He is a picky eater and I am forgiving of that because I had one of my own and I am used to trying to work around weird food dislikes. He doesn't like cheese, so no macaroni and cheese, which would be easy. He likes several things I could make, but it's too darn hot to bake a chicken pie or make home made pizza. So, I have decided to make sloppy joes.
Do you have a picky eater who drives you crazy or do you just make whatever you want and let them go hungry if they don't like it?
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14 responses
@TiarasOceanView (70022)
• United States
7 Sep 15
I do not thank goodness.
That is so kind of you and hospitable to make something he can eat.
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@rusty2rusty (6763)
• Defiance, Ohio
8 Sep 15
Yes, I have a picky eater. he says he doesn't eat rabbit food. They way he is, by time he is my age. he will be a very heavy weight.
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@Gina145 (3949)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
8 Sep 15
It's just Mom and I, and neither of us are particularly picky eaters now, though I know Mom was when she was growing up. It's just as well that we're not picky because neither of us likes to cook and we buy a lot of prepared meals from the supermarket which only need warming up.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
12 Sep 15
I am my own picky eater. I don't eat cheese, sauces, spices, fried foods, grease of any kind, pork, milk and dairy products....you'd never be able to feed me!
@patgalca (18368)
• Orangeville, Ontario
8 Sep 15
I have two picky eaters: my husband and the young one. The young one is gone off to university now and hubby has been away for almost two weeks so I have only cooked a couple of times. I try new recipes online and get the thumbs up or thumbs down. Invariably someone will not be in agreement with the others. I have to get a unanimous vote if I am going to make it again. I have yet to have one of my kids' friends come to dinner and be picky, but I have had them here unexpectedly. I usually make enough for lunches the next day so amount is not the issue, but I don't always have left overs if we have an extra mouth to feed.
@sacmom (14192)
• United States
8 Sep 15
That saying is very true, whether it's food related or not! 
Yes, I have a couple of picky eaters myself. Heck, my oldest doesn't even like pizza (well,except maybe the crust). How's that for picky? 
lol
Yes, I have a couple of picky eaters myself. Heck, my oldest doesn't even like pizza (well,except maybe the crust). How's that for picky? lol
@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
8 Sep 15
I'm afraid I am the family picky eater with a dislike of peas, tea and coffee among other basic edibles. It often causes my Mum and various friends culinary headaches.
@Bhattacharjee (16)
• New Delhi, India
8 Sep 15
I always make a two weeks menu ready sitting with my family.It really helps. So it goes like "Everyone cannot be pleased at one time, but everyone can be pleased sometimes"
