Dont pick your food battles in other peoples homes, and 2.
This just seems like best practices to me.
Well just have to agree to disagree there.
This question (and the columnists response!
), which was inSlates Care and Feeding columnlast week, has me baffled.
Its not that you handled food correctly and they didnt, so now theyve created a monster.
Your experience of dinnertime is probably quite different from the experiences your friends are having.
This always leads to problems.
Without fail this special kid meal becomes a thing, even if my kids like the regular meal.
You are happy to relax your routine in almost every way when you invite guests over for a meal?
Well, I would hope so.
Otherwise, why extend the invitation in the first place?
I cant imagine were talking about anything more complex than a box of macaroni and cheese here.
Yes, the right answer is to just be accommodating, so Ive gone ahead and bolded that.
Or instead, should it be… a treat?
A get-together to have fun and make some memories and eat some good food, however they define that.
I realize that this is a sort of over-the-top framing.
I also realize there is a counterargument here about being an accommodating host.
What do you think?
Accommodating picky kidsisdifferent from being mindful of legitimate dietary restrictions.
The latter is a necessity; the former is a kindness.
Some mac n cheese, frozen waffles, chicken tenders… hell, just order them a pizza!
This is a party!
This can all be discussed ahead of time, too.
Hey, FYI, Im going to be making pasta with bolognese sauce, you might say.
Will the kiddos eat that?
If the answer is Man, that sounds delicious!
I, personally, would not want this to be the hill my friendships died on.
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