In the Ragu-sponsored video we are sharing this week, I chat with my blogging buddies Kim Tracy Prince and Renee Ross about leftovers.
Since I make two separate dinners for my family (adults vs kids), I don’t personally struggle with convincing my kids to eat leftovers. The kids are not eating what Ryan and I eat anyway. (If you are also in the Two-Dinner Club, please let me know so that I feel like less of a failure!)
Also? My children both WANT to eat the same thing a bunch of nights in a row. Scarlett is on a pupusa kick. This week, if she doesn’t get a bean and cheese pupusa on her plate, she will be pissed, no matter what else she’s already eaten. Julian would be happy if we made mac and cheese on Monday and fed the remainder to him every day for the rest of the week. Cheese pizza or pasta would be acceptable substitutes.
Do your kids like the same thing every night? Is that an option? Or is that the only option?
P.S. This video was part of a promotional series called Mom’s The Word on Dinner, put together by Ragu. (I know, I know, sometimes Dad is the word on dinner, but folks, that ship has already sailed.) See all the Ragu videos on their Facebook page.
P.S.2. Of course I do not make pupusas from scratch. I buy them pre-packaged in the refrigerated section of the fancy grocery store.
Never heard of a pupusa before. Interesting!
We give them one meal and the leftovers for lunch. If they don’t like it, missing one meal won’t kill ‘em. Lucky for me my kids generally like the same foods I like, or at least over time they do, after seeing them enough times.
Real men eat quiche, and so do their kids.
Just wanted to tell ya I do different meals for us and the kids also. Usually a variation on what the husband and I are eating, but totally feels like I am a waitress sometimes
My son would eat raw spinach with brussel sprouts if I put it in front of him, but my daughter wants cheese melted in a tortilla 6 nights out of 7!
Two-Meal club here too. We don’t like it, but our 4-year old is so picky and it’s frustrating to either make a meal that is bland and boring enough for him to eat but we have to eat it too, or make a meal that we like and he rejects entirely. His meals are so simple — plain everything — that we prefer to just make him his own.
Ever since we first introduced solids, DD got what we ate. Maybe she’ll get separate little piles of beans, cheese, and beef on taco night versus an assembled taco, but that’s the extent I’m willing to go. We do let her pick what and how much she eats from what I’m making though (for example, a ton of asparagus and not much beef is fine). If I let her pick her dinner completely, then she would eat birthday cake and goldfish crackers for every meal.
I typically plan to cook three recipes a week. Leftovers are used for lunch. Honestly though, I’M not a big fan of leftovers, because I just love food and I love variety, haha.