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RE: Grandpa Gotta Cook—Salad Buffet
That looks like a really tasty dinner. I don't think you have to classify it as "healthy." Maybe your son is just being too picky. I think you did well. Who says things can't be tasty and good for you?!
He likes carbs more than most anything else, and if there's meat thrown in, he's good. The rest of it, well, it can come and go. His wife isn't big on leafy greens or most vegetables, either, and she's the skinniest of all of us.
I don't know that I did classify it as healthy. I just though it was a welcome change from all the other stuff I'd been eating. And it was. And, it was much more natural than the other stuff, too, and less processed, even though technically I did process stuff by chopping them up. I just didn't stuff them into other things or create something that doesn't exist in nature.
I think this is about as close to tasty and good for you that I've come. It's always lacking one or the other. :)
Most things in life can skew one way or the other. It's nice when you find that balance though.
Maybe your son just needed a nice loaf of french bread on the side or something. That would have helped fill him up! :D
Yeah, probably, but believe me, he doesn't need to eat more carbs. He survived it, too. He tends to come around after he's more or less forced to eat something a few times. It's just in the interim where he likes to jab at you about meal choices. Most of the time, though, he's fine. He's not that picky of an eater, which I feel his wife is. And it's stuff like lettuce, and pineapple and olives, onions, eggs—things you would hardly throw on a junk food list. Yet her big problem is keeping weight on.
I can understand someone having an issue with certain foods because of a medical diet, but I have a difficult time dealing with people who just don't like certain foods. When I was growing up, we ate anything. People loved having us over to their houses because we didn't complain. Most kids would complain about what their parents made, so just like that the parents liked us better than their kids. Ha ha. Ok, maybe not better, but at least they weren't upset to see us.
I can't think of a single time we were ever invited over to someone else's house (except family on a holiday) for a meal. In our case, we weren't picky eaters, but we were big eaters, so that would have been a problem, maybe.
With my wife, we've had invitations, mainly because we end up extending four times as many invitations as we ever receive. I don't know if that's normal or not, but that's how it works out for us.
My boys are pretty decent eaters. And the other daughter-in-law is, too. And that's not to say that the one living with us isn't. She'll eat plenty of the stuff she likes. She just isn't that fond of everything I might want to make. :)
I think other people's children, as a rule, are people's favorites over their own. It's kind of like grandkids. You get to see them when you want and then you can send them home when you don't. :)
I more meant when I was a kid and we would go to friends' houses to play. Sometimes people would comment about how we'd eat anything and that we weren't picky. When we had some friends over to our house, we found out that some people could be picky because they didn't like what our parents made. That didn't make the parents happy.
I don't know what the normal ratio is for invites given to invites received. I don't tend to give or receive many at this point. It's been a tougher season, so isolation can happen.
It sounds like your daughter-in-law is ready to start making more meals that she does like for everyone! :D
Yep, if you like the people, you get to have fun with them. When you're tired of them, they leave. It's a great setup.