When you were a kid, did your parents make whatever you wanted to eat or did you eat whatever your parents made?

[Chazmatazz269]

When i was a kid, i ate what was made or i didn’t eat. As a teen, it was a little different. If i didn’t want what was made, i was free to make something for myself.
I hear so many parents asking their kids what they want for dinner now and negotiating with them to eat more than sugary cereal and snacks all day everyday. It’s rampant in the media too. They’ve convinced you that giving your kids everything they want on demand is normal. That nobody denies their children anything. It’s really just the next level of consumerism; planned, i assure you.
Certainly it’s also a factor in the worsening sense of entitlement among young people. When you spend your entire life getting exactly what you want exactly when you want it, or your parents apologize and grovel for failing you, there’s no way you become an adult with a reasonable sense about what you deserve and how the world works.
So tell us, did your parents bend over backwards to make you whatever you wanted to eat? Or did you have to eat what was put in front of you or go hungry?

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5 mo

Family, but could also fall under food & drink

[SueShe]

Growing up, we kids had to eat whatever was placed on the table or else we would sit there till we ate what our mother cooked.

We were fortunate enough to have a huge vegetable garden as my dad was an avid gardener. He grew a good dozen vegetables and we had a number of fruit trees.

Until I left home at age 18, we never ordered out, I never ate fast food and we had vegetables on our dishes 365 day a year.

To this day, I have never set foot in a fast food chain restaurant but I hear the taste of those foods are positively disgusting.

[RandomGirl42]

Mom often reminded us, "I'm not running a damn restaurant!" so we ate what was on the table (But it was always good 'cuz we had a little' farm) and we always ate at the table with no tv or anything and like, actually had to talk to each other and stuff.

[AviatorTom]

My mother had 8 meals that she could cook. You knew what day of the wee it was by what she cooked for dinner... it was almost always the same meal on the same day of the week. The only change was on Saturday... sometimes we'd have mac h cheese and sometimes we'd have baked spaghetti casserole.

My father loved pancakes. He could eat pancakes any time of day. That's the only thing that my mother would sometimes make special... if he asked her t make pancakes for dinner.

As a result, we ate what she prepared.

[exitseven]

I had to eat what thy made. Many a time I sat at the kitchen table refusing to eat it until it was time for bed.

[Chazmatazz269]

I pulled that stunt once. Lo and behold my breakfast the next day was the dinner i didn’t eat the night before. I didn’t eat breakfast. Went to skool and came home to have that meal sat in front of me again while everyone else was eating something different. I ate it and in my head i had won. It wasn’t long after that when the rule was changed to allow me to cook for myself if i didn’t want what was prepared.

[trumpetplayerforlife]

We ate what was served my mom would leave the ingredients separately for me thought so if we had soup with chicken she'd leave some chicken for me to eat because I don't love soup

[queenofcardio]

They only ever asked what I wanted if we were eating somewhere else besides home.. I ate what was made or I didn't eat. Sometimes I'd cook for myself if they weren't around

[AngryCarl2]

There was some negotiation, like the period when I would only eat bacon. For a long time I refused to eat garden peas but I would eat canned Mixed Vegetables. Some days I refused food altogether.

[Iron_Man]

I ate what they made. but they know that I love Burger King so they would take me there sometimes

[sirderpsalot123]

Whatever my mom made, but sometimes she would give me a few options and I could pick what I wanted to eat.

[fish5505_87]

Generally, what was made, their were exceptions!

[mrkdvsn]

I either ate what was prepared for everyone, or I just didn't eat part of my meal.

[aceleon]

made what i want to eat there is no forcing me for something i would go ahead and die or go thief if i got hungry.

[aceleon]

even though i find spoiling the kids wrong too your ideas of child raising looks unhealthy as f for me too, taking advantage of a kid's helplessness to bend them to your will is not better than the child's sense of entitlement, do you expect being a non-narcisstic child by being narcisstic in their place?
my parents didn't bend to me nor did i bend to them, i knew what exactly i deserved and was gonna get it one way or another, it was my life to decide on things, me being a kid didn't made my decisions or choices less relevant unlike some lousy adults seemed to believe, they didn't fed me junk food or gaved me what i want, they just didn't made me have to do what they say, my mom knew what i eat and made it never presented the things i hate as food for me.

[katiesmuff]

It was whatever my parents made!

[beenherebefore]

I used to eat the same as my parents.

[White_Stain00]

Generally I ate whatever my parents made.

[Batsy01010101]

i ate what was made or i didn’t eat

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Eat whatever my mom or grandma made.

[Cidknee]

It went back and forth about 90/10 to their favor.