How to Make Your Kids Hate You Forever

While waiting for my Kindle to charge, I thought I’d look through one of my old cookbooks to see what I could see. The title of this 974-page tome is Culinary Arts Institute Encyclopedic Cookbook, published for the “American Family and Community,” by Grosset & Dunlap, 1968.

I don’t remember when or where it came from—someone may have given it to me, my late hubby, perhaps, thinking I could use some help creating meals he would actually eat without bitching. (NO onions! NO cooked vegetables! Cook like my grandma did, or else! Never mind his grandma probably used onions in her pot roasts and he ate that with relish.)

Well, I learned to cook like MY grandma, so there! And I grew up just fine without choking on something. Grandma was the one who taught me to love onions.

Anyway, back to this huge volume, which has a 66-page index. After checking out some of the recipes, I decided the book should be renamed: How to Make Your Kids Hate You Forever

Check out these brilliant menus!

For the Preschool Child:

MONDAY DINNER

Cream of Salmon Soup

Baked Stuffed Onions

Sandwich of Watercress and Lemon Butter

Stewed Apricots

Milk

For The School Child: 

MONDAY LUNCH

Liver Vegetable Soup

Pineapple and Banana Salad

Toast Animals

Butterscotch Pudding

Milk

Uh huh. Yep. Right! I can just see a kid in the school lunchroom trying to get rid of his  liver soup.

“I’ll trade you my Liver Veggie Soup for your Doritos and Hostess Cupcake.”