The Official What's For Dinner thread:Thursday 1-24-08? Recipe finder in OP. Enjoy! Part 2

[liamsaunt]

Sorry about your FIL, LBAK.

sj&k, I feel your pain! My brother used to be the same way. No vegetables at all. No meat except boneless skinless chicken. My Mom tried everything. He was always a fussy eater--when he was a baby he had to be admitted to the hospital because he was refusing to eat. He still is a fairly picky eater, though not nearly as bad as when he was young. He's 27 now and I can think of AT LEAST four vegetables that he will eat. I tell my Mom that she should have used the method my pediatrician prescribed...I was also a fussy eater and really underweight as a toddler, so my doctor made my Mom feed me...wait for it...PUREED BOILED LAMB KIDNEYS!!!! AAAH!!! I think this explains why I was a vegetarian for 10 years!

So, on to tonight's dinner. More spicy food for us, and another repeat: Spicy cuban black bean cakes, coconut-pineapple rice, sweet plantains, and sauteed spinach. Much tastier than boiled pureed lamb kidneys, I assure you.

 

[sj&k]

liamsaunt-maybe I'll threaten her with the kidneys! Surely that will make her eat something else!

 

[Nancyg56]

liamsaunt-maybe I'll threaten her with the kidneys! Surely that will make her eat something else!

If that doesn't work, nothing will. Can a Nana jump in here? I would say don't worry too much about it. Frustrating...yes...Earth shattering....no. I really don't have any suggestions because my DGD is just now starting to branch out a tiny bit, and at 5 she hasn't died yet, when DD gets upset it just seems to make it worse.
My nephew was the fussiest eater I had ever seen. No food touching, no "things" in his food, nothing that looked different or that was a "strange" color, no food toughing. It went on and on and on. We attended his graduation from USMC boot camp and all went to a family dinner that evening. He ate whatever was not nailed down, I mean the entire bowl of mashed potatoes with onions, scraped the herbed butter dish with his roll, was offered and accepted appetizer samples form everyone. Topped it off with the biggest slab of Mud pie I had ever seen. This guy did not touch chocolate! The manager of the restaurant was retired USMC and recognized a starving Marine when he saw one . Now he even says his Mom's food is good, an everybody knows that she is Costco or burned!

Anyway, this is long but they survive and even outgrow this.

 

[Nancyg56]

Very busy night here and my FIL passed away yesterday so DH is down in Florida. Just the 2 girls and myself so tacos for us!

I am so sorry for your loss.

 

[shovan]

...I was also a fussy eater and really underweight as a toddler, so my doctor made my Mom feed me...wait for it...PUREED BOILED LAMB KIDNEYS!!!! AAAH!!! I think this explains why I was a vegetarian for 10 years!

So, on to tonight's dinner. More spicy food for us, and another repeat: Spicy cuban black bean cakes, coconut-pineapple rice, sweet plantains, and sauteed spinach. Much tastier than boiled pureed lamb kidneys, I assure you.

liamsaut, LAMB KIDNEYS!!! EEEWWWW! I would have become a vegetarian too!!!
Your dinner tonight sounds wonderful! Have you posted the recipes for the black bean cakes & cocunut-pineapple rice before? I'll go check, if not would you please post them. I'd love to try that!

Last night we had grilled tenderloin steaks, baked potato, sauteed mushrooms & a salad with roquefort cheese,kalamata olives, ceasar dressing.

 

[LiteBrite]

Good morning all

So sorry to hear about your FIL, LBAK.

I posted yesterday that I was going to make Glynis's Chicken in Basil Cream and I was really looking forward to it, but at 5pm we got summoned to my parents' house to eat a roast with them because my nephew was visiting from out of town (which I didn't even know till they called ). Thank goodness I hadn't started cooking yet!

I won't have time to attempt that one again till the weekend, so it's into the freezer for those chicken breasts. Tonight we have our weekly potluck at Home Group Bible Study, and we're taking a cucumber salad that hubby put together last night.

 

[Nancyg56]

Lauren- I knew I should have stayed with the fried chops but wanted something different.

Now tonight will be something with ground turkey. I have no idea what, yet.

 

[sj&k]

Thanks, everyone, for your help. I know I shouldn't worry about it too much, since she is pretty healthy, but sometimes it bothers me more than others. I think being alone in the house most of the day for the past couple of weeks is starting to wear on me. I never thought I'd say this, but I am hoping to go back to work next week. Then I won't have time to worry about what she is eating, just to worry about how late we'll all be eating!

 

[shovan]

Tonight is going to be chicken & pasta. Maybe chicken piccata or rosemary chicken & the lemon spaghetti. Anyone try that without the heavy cream? To make it a bit less fattening.

sj&k, Letting my 4yo niece help with the cooking works wonder on her eating it! She will at least eat some of whatever it is, if she helped.

 

[OKWMom]

LBAK - So very sorry about your FIL.

Tonight's dinner is the artichoke chicken from this thread. Not sure who's recipe it is because I didn't write that part down and my memory is not what it used to be. I am making wild rice to go with it.

 

[lucas]

Tonight we are having shrimp salad sandwiches on toast and something on the side but I am not sure what.

 

[TigerKat]

Tonight is going to be chicken & pasta. Maybe chicken piccata or rosemary chicken & the lemon spaghetti. Anyone try that without the heavy cream? To make it a bit less fattening.
sj&k, Letting my 4yo niece help with the cooking works wonder on her eating it! She will at least eat some of whatever it is, if she helped.

I've used half & half and it's fine!

 

[Glynis]

Very busy night here and my FIL passed away yesterday so DH is down in Florida. Just the 2 girls and myself so tacos for us!

I'm so sorry for your loss! to your family!

 

[Glynis]

LBAK-sorry for your loss.

Tonight DH and I are having steaks (with bearnaise sauce for me-I keep seeing it on the Food Network and I've never had it before, but it looks wonderful) and baked potatoes. DD will probably have a frozen dinner. I mentioned before that just about the only thing that I cook that she will eat is sloppy joes. If I make chili or vegetable and ground beef soup she dips crackers in them and eats the crackers, or she may eat a few beans out of the chili. She will only eat chicken if I fry it, and even then it has to be boneless. There are a few vegetables she'll eat, mostly beans. Sometimes she'll eat rice-she ate a little of the chicken fried rice I cooked earlier in the week. She will eat hot dogs if I cook them, but they are not my favorite thing to eat, so we don't have them often. When we eat out she mainly eats chicken tenders and fries, except at Red Lobster, where she eats popcorn shrimp with fries and croutons dipped in 1000 island dressing. She doesn't really even like pizza or hamburgers. I know I am babbling, but this has been frustrating me for a while and I needed to vent. I prepare what I think are nice meals and she refuses to eat them. She is 10 years old and I wonder if she'll ever branch out with her diet. Of course, DH doesn't eat vegetables at all unless you count baked beans and corn on the cob or fried creamed corn. He eats meat and starches. If anyone has any suggestions for me I would appreciate them. Thanks for listening.

Do you have any kind of rule about her trying new foods? All my kids started out picky eaters, so we instituted a rule that they have to try as many bites as they are old of whatever dinner is placed before them. Once they've done that, if they don't like dinner, they are free to make a peanut butter sandwich, but I will not make it for them. My sister makes alternate dinners, and the consequence is that now she has to make on average 3 different dinners EVERY NIGHT!!! I refuse to do that. I tell my kids I'm not a short order cook. I expect them to try what everyone else is eating. I've found that as we instituted that rule, my oldest DD (9 yrs.) is now eating everything I cook. Her tastes have really matured. My DS (7 yrs.) is still quite picky, but he knows the rule, so he eats his 7 bites and then we discuss it. My twins (4 yrs.) are a bit tricky. One is adventurous, and the other isn't, so each night is a new thing. However, they know the rule, so they don't fight me on it. They know that they won't get anything until they've tried their bites, so they just do it.

Have you tried giving your DD a chance to do the cooking? That really helps my DS. If he "cooks" it, he'll eat it! I subscribe to Family Fun magazine, and each month, they have some recipe that is geared towards cooking by kids. I clip those and keep them in a binder. Jacob will go through the book and find something he thinks looks good, and then he'll help me cook it.

Just some thoughts. Good luck!

 

[Glynis]

Sorry about your FIL, LBAK.

sj&k, I feel your pain! My brother used to be the same way. No vegetables at all. No meat except boneless skinless chicken. My Mom tried everything. He was always a fussy eater--when he was a baby he had to be admitted to the hospital because he was refusing to eat. He still is a fairly picky eater, though not nearly as bad as when he was young. He's 27 now and I can think of AT LEAST four vegetables that he will eat. I tell my Mom that she should have used the method my pediatrician prescribed...I was also a fussy eater and really underweight as a toddler, so my doctor made my Mom feed me...wait for it...PUREED BOILED LAMB KIDNEYS!!!! AAAH!!! I think this explains why I was a vegetarian for 10 years!

So, on to tonight's dinner. More spicy food for us, and another repeat: Spicy cuban black bean cakes, coconut-pineapple rice, sweet plantains, and sauteed spinach. Much tastier than boiled pureed lamb kidneys, I assure you.

Your mother must be related to my MIL!!! For years, she made her children drink blendered beef brains at breakfast. To "soften" the blow, they were allowed pineapple juice chasers. I shudder every time I think about it! DH said that sometimes they would sneak out of the house in order to get away before she put that goop in front of them, but she would just put it in the fridge, and guess what they got for an after school snack????

 

[Glynis]

Dinner for us tonight will be salmon with a sweet salsa. I'm pretty excited about this recipe! I know that all my kids will eat the salmon (even picky DS absolutely loves salmon), and since the salsa is on the side, I'm not too worried about that. I'm steaming some cauliflower to go with it, and I'll either make some brown rice or some noodles as the starch.

 

[sj&k]

DD has helped me cook on occasion but usually wants to help only with the things she is interested in eating. Maybe I will try again with her on that, look in some of my cookbooks-I've even bought her some kids' cookbooks-and see if she is interested in anything that could be a meal for all of us. I get Family Fun also and will let her look at that. Again, thanks a lot for all the suggestions!

 

[LiteBrite]

Your mother must be related to my MIL!!! For years, she made her children drink blendered beef brains at breakfast. To "soften" the blow, they were allowed pineapple juice chasers. I shudder every time I think about it! DH said that sometimes they would sneak out of the house in order to get away before she put that goop in front of them, but she would just put it in the fridge, and guess what they got for an after school snack????

 

[shovan]

I've used half & half and it's fine!

Thanks Kathy, I just came home from the grocery. They have fat-free half & half now! I going to give it try & I'll let you know if it's okay!

LBAK, So sorry for your family's loss.


Ladies, how do you store all your recipes on the computer? Anyone have an easy suggestions for the not so computer savvy, like me?

 

[lucas]

Ladies, how do you store all your recipes on the computer? Anyone have an easy suggestions for the not so computer savvy, like me?

Hi shovan! Not sure what everyone else does, but I copy and paste them into a word document.

I changed my mind about dinner tonight - no shrimp salad for us. Tonight we are having steaks, roasted brocolli and cauliflower casserole (pg 43, by liamandcaili).