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What's the best thing about your kids demanding steak and mashed potatoes for dinner (I also made steamed carrots and corn on the cob, as well as grilled green onions for the grownups), only to have one of those kids declare that she won't be eating because she's going to a kid's night out and they're going to have pizza?
If you said "The chance to make that kid feel guilty by quietly observing that, faced with the choice of cheap pizza or a delicious home-cooked meal prepared with love, you'd make a different decision," well, you'd be in second place.
The BEST thing about the above scenario is that the next day you'll have potatoes in the house - which you normally don't - and leftover steak, which you can combine with onions and peppers and eggs and cheese to make a fabulous fajita-style scramble, and enjoy the sight of your daughter's eyes rolling back in her head with the first bite, followed by the sound of frantic fork against plate drowning out the sounds of Nickelodeon.
If you said "The chance to make that kid feel guilty by quietly observing that, faced with the choice of cheap pizza or a delicious home-cooked meal prepared with love, you'd make a different decision," well, you'd be in second place.
The BEST thing about the above scenario is that the next day you'll have potatoes in the house - which you normally don't - and leftover steak, which you can combine with onions and peppers and eggs and cheese to make a fabulous fajita-style scramble, and enjoy the sight of your daughter's eyes rolling back in her head with the first bite, followed by the sound of frantic fork against plate drowning out the sounds of Nickelodeon.