Stop the Meal Menu Maddness

Me: “So what are your making for dinner?”
Vicki: “Beans and cornbread. The beans are in the crock pot with a hamhock.” (It was 11:00 am)
Me: “What do you do if someone in your family doesn’t like what you are making?”
Vicki: “They are old enough to make themselves a sandwich. But they can’t have left overs or break out a lot of dishes or food and make a mess.”
Me: “But you never seem to have a problem with that.”
Vicki: “One Monday night, I had my family come to FHE with at least five of their favorite dinners. Between all of us, that gave us 35 dinner ideas, but some were the same and some we weeded out because not enough people liked it. We discussed all of them and by the end of the night we had almost a months worth of  menu ideas.
Me: ” Wow, that seems easy enough! But do you ever get to try new recipes?”
Vicki: “It is more important to me that everyone likes what I make so I only try new recipes about once a month and only add them to the menu if it is something everyone likes. I can make what I like for lunch when they are at school. Same thing goes for my husband, I tell him he has plenty of opportunities between traveling and office lunches to get what he has been craving. So he has to be happy with whatever I make when he comes home.”
Me: “That seems fair enough.”