over 30? you grew up eating what adults ate. now kids eat chickn fingers. pizza. mac n cheese

[bhikkhu]

33. Growing up in the early 70's wasn't much different than now

For breakfast it was cereal, unless I wanted eggs or pancakes, which I cooked myself. My kids have cereal now, but they both know how to make eggs if they want, and every now and then our schedules coincide and I'll cook up a batch of pancakes.

For lunch we fended for ourselves, usually PB&J, baloney sandwiches, salad, or yogurt. Nowadays no baloney - the kids watched a thing on how it was made and won't touch it, but we always have sandwich stuff. More often they'll heat up some leftovers from dinner, but there's always salad and yogurt around.

Dinner growing up was meat and potatoes of some variety, and some kind of vegetable. But at an early point my mom got tired of tossing uneaten vegetables and stopped cooking them. Now meat and rice of some variety is the norm at our house, with potatoes only occasional. I also got tired of tossing uneaten veggies so I don't cook them much.

Now the kids are teenagers and my work is very busy, so two or three times a week I'm too worn out to cook (especially if I get home and the kitchen is a disaster zone), so I leave them to forage sometimes. Not ideal, but they need to learn to take care of things themselves a little better. We stopped sitting down at the table as a family years ago, during a bad time with their mom when dinner-time became "air your grievances" time.