I have taken over our family budget and financial planning, and have many years of mismanagement to sort out. Our food bill is very high, so I have cut us down to a farmer's diet plus occasional dried apricots. This is probably the most accurate TF diet for us anyway, and it doesn't skimp on flavour, but it does add time in the kitchen for me.
Our dc are not picky eaters in general. Last night they ate many helpings of pork roast, lemon rosemary roast potatoes in butter and a leafy green salad with acv and evoo dressing with spices.
But then other times, they are so wasteful that I can't figure out how much food to prepare and they typically destroy whatever they don't eat so that it cannot be salvaged. For instance, we buy raw cheese (although I may end up making it myself now, but this still applies). It is $10/lb and making on my own wouldn't be cheaper. We will put two slices on their plates at their request and then find that they've taken a bite, licked it all and then crumbled and smeared the rest on the table or their plates. We've even gone so far to reduce waste that for a short while, we'd feed them a tbsp of food at a time. That's tedious though, even though they thought it was fun.
If our food need didn't increase, as in stayed the same with this going on, I guess it would be annoying, but it's a stage, and will pass. But they end up needing to eat more food later on to make up for the waste earlier in the day. So, we need more food and ftr, the pigs who eat our scraps are going to be enormous and very healthy by mating time in spring...
They enjoy the food and they always have choices, so it's not that it's unpalatable to them. They are all huge children and need a lot of calories to feel happy and energetic. They cannot seem to pay attention long enough to their meals to eat them before they start to destroy their food though.
I know this would be a gd issue usually, but I'm asking here because when I see this going on, all I can think is that this is why our friends feed their dc kr@ft mac and cheez.
And this is not a live option in our life; eating cheaper isn't either; we're at bare minimum as it is.
How do you afford the waste as well as what goes in their bellies? TF is certainly not food on the cheap, at least where we live. It is our biggest monthly expense, taking between 1/3 and 1/2 of our (variable and modest) income.
Is this a ride-it-out sort of thing? I know my 6 yr old is far less likely to waste his food, but he's always been that way; I have no idea how soon this will improve. Also, if dc are very, very hungry, they do eat everything and waste nothing, but waiting until they are starving to give them their meals is not something I feel comfortable doing for many reasons.
Any ideas or reassurances?
Our dc are not picky eaters in general. Last night they ate many helpings of pork roast, lemon rosemary roast potatoes in butter and a leafy green salad with acv and evoo dressing with spices.
But then other times, they are so wasteful that I can't figure out how much food to prepare and they typically destroy whatever they don't eat so that it cannot be salvaged. For instance, we buy raw cheese (although I may end up making it myself now, but this still applies). It is $10/lb and making on my own wouldn't be cheaper. We will put two slices on their plates at their request and then find that they've taken a bite, licked it all and then crumbled and smeared the rest on the table or their plates. We've even gone so far to reduce waste that for a short while, we'd feed them a tbsp of food at a time. That's tedious though, even though they thought it was fun.
If our food need didn't increase, as in stayed the same with this going on, I guess it would be annoying, but it's a stage, and will pass. But they end up needing to eat more food later on to make up for the waste earlier in the day. So, we need more food and ftr, the pigs who eat our scraps are going to be enormous and very healthy by mating time in spring...
They enjoy the food and they always have choices, so it's not that it's unpalatable to them. They are all huge children and need a lot of calories to feel happy and energetic. They cannot seem to pay attention long enough to their meals to eat them before they start to destroy their food though.
I know this would be a gd issue usually, but I'm asking here because when I see this going on, all I can think is that this is why our friends feed their dc kr@ft mac and cheez.
And this is not a live option in our life; eating cheaper isn't either; we're at bare minimum as it is.How do you afford the waste as well as what goes in their bellies? TF is certainly not food on the cheap, at least where we live. It is our biggest monthly expense, taking between 1/3 and 1/2 of our (variable and modest) income.
Is this a ride-it-out sort of thing? I know my 6 yr old is far less likely to waste his food, but he's always been that way; I have no idea how soon this will improve. Also, if dc are very, very hungry, they do eat everything and waste nothing, but waiting until they are starving to give them their meals is not something I feel comfortable doing for many reasons.
Any ideas or reassurances?
people even comment on this. I think my inner child is rebelling?!?) into the soup bag, and every week (or more) I make soup out of the random scraps. It's always yummy!
) and I attempt to avoid the waste by giving them small amounts at a time. Like half a slice of cheese, vs 2 slices.
so I've taken to putting gravy, sauces, etc into a really small measuring cup with a spout, and only a small amount at a time. That way if he dumps the whole thing out on his food, it's not a waste and he hasn't flooded his plate. 
