/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Lets be real here, most of this board has no family and has no idea what cooking for a family is like. I have a wife, 2 kids, and an autistic special needs boy who we adopted from the local animal abusers rehabilitation school.

Ignoring my own needs

Wife
>Needs 2600 calories a day, is an active woman with a large frame
>Her weekly food on average is 2 loafs of bread, a huge amount of varied tinned fruit, 2 types of sausage, 2 muffins per day, oatmeal and buttermilk for her porridge breakfast, granola and veggie stock for lunch, several bags of crisps, a few spices, diet pop but she is worried about food contamination so I have to buy multiple fresh glass bottles a week to bottle the pop in seperate bottles for her private fridge which costs to run, she likes to pick at the burnt chocolate spread from the toaster so I have to buy and eat chocolate spread on toast despite not being a fan, and some chicken

FROM all of that, the rest of the family maybe gets some granola, some leftover crisps and some slices of bread. The autistic boy doesn't eat meat so he has to have vegan options and lentils etc, my youngest daughter is a picky as fuck eater, so won't eat from any cupboard with lentils in because when she used to be really fat I would make fun of her by dropping bags of lentils on her and saying 'just getting your PULSE down fatty', so I have to build a seperate cupboard for her food, which isn't that much because she has an eating disorder. My second daughter, the eldest, eats weird shit like fish and eggs mixed together in a tomato sauce, so she does all her cooking which means she needed her own oven and fish is expensive. Then there is the fact I can't cook for everyone because the daughters are scared of the autistic boy and won't eat with him so I have to cook their meals, eat with them and their mother, then go and eat with the boy but while I am there my wife eat from the fridge as 'snacks' which needs replacing

Families are complicated. Its never cheap

A generalization is that people who only eat chicken tenders and fries are basic ass bitches with the pallet of a child.

If you go out to eat somewhere, some people think that it's good to order something that you can't normally order anywhere else. (Like going to red lobster and instead of ordering seafood, you order your tendies and fries.) So what's the point in going out somewhere nice when something basic would make you just as happy? You might as well go McDonalds.

Eat what you want and what makes you happy, but be aware that you probably fall into that "man child" category in other people's eyes.

>>10644714
This happens at any kind of restaurant though, especially if you allow wh*teoids to eat there

I once had a coworker ask for "no arugula" on a sandwich that came with arugula. Because vegetables are icky, right? Or as wh*teoids say, "I'm allergic to {everything that isn't unsalted boiled chicken breast and mayonnaise}"

Anyway they were busy as always and fucked up the order so badly that his arugula-free sandwich had arugula on it

What's the natural response then but to berate the waiter and demand that they take it back and remake the entire sandwich? God forbid you just take the top slice of bread off, remove the arugula, replace the bread, and eat it

So the rest of the group watched, aghast, as the waiter complied with his insane request, also delaying our return to the office by 15 minutes

The "soy turns you gay" meme was started by millennials with weak parents who gave in to their tableside tantrums too often, for too long

Imagine being so scared of vegetables that you relentlessly shitposted about it until other millennials began to believe you

It’s considered socially acceptable to be a picky eater under the following scenarios:
>steak is cooked too long for your uncertain gender identity to handle
>beer is too cheap or weak
>restaurant says “vegetarian” in the yelp tags
>ingredient has recently become popular with people that have a higher income than you
Why do you suppose this is?

>>7550228
If he were an alcoholic, this would be perfectly acceptable. Just because he refuses wine - that's not a thing. That being said, he should absolutely order things on the menu at a restaurant.