Why Bother?

If you have a 5 year old, then this statement is one you not only have thought, but most likely put into action.  For the past week, I have cooked dinner every night.  Now, every night was a tired and true recipe that the whole family has eaten not once, but many times.  Of the past weeks dinners, Aiden has attempted to eat two of them.  So that means, for about four days straight, she had cereal for dinner.  CEREAL!!  I spend usually about 30 min to an hour cooking dinner each night and the little turd tells me she (Aiden) doesn't like whats for dinner.  Really?  So a bowl of cereal it is!  Friday night I made chicken nachos and we had friends over for pumpkin carving.  She didn't like nachos that night, and of course had cereal.  Saturday, she wanted macaroni and cheese for dinner, and actually ate it.  I had leftover nachos from the night before, and wouldn't you know it, she was mad because she wanted nachos, even though she didn't like them the night before.  UGH!!!  I have given up on her and dinner.  I don't even make her eat what is made anymore.  If she says she doesn't like it, then I tell her to get out what she wants because I don't feel like the argument.  Is this normal?  I am hoping so because I don't know if she is going to grow eating cereal for the rest of her life!

old vs new

Growing up, I loved hamburger helper.  Who didn't?  It was the easiest meal to make, and all you needed was some bread and butter on the side.  Now that I have more refined tastes..ehmmm..hamburger helper is just not as good as it used to be.  So why not make my own!  It was something that was really easy to make once you knew what you were doing.  Almost the same ingredients were involved also, they just didn't come out of the box!  Hamburger, pasta shells, beef broth and cheese soup mix, and 30 min later, you have homemade hamburger helper!  It tastes almost nothing like the original, which is a good thing if you didn't like the orginal, but bad if you did.  The new version was not a good as I remember the old to be, but it seemed to go down alright.  Aiden has become so picky the last week, I think she would rather starve to death then eat something new, so needless to say, she didn't like it.  Carly on the other hand, ate bowl after bowl.  The husband, well he eats pretty much everything I make, so he ate and didn't complain.  Not sure if this one will be a keeper or not, might have to give it another trial run.