Operation: Feed My Father

[bluejeans07]

With Mom visiting family in Korea, the care and feeding of my father has fallen into my hands. This is a really frustrating and often thankless task since my father is a notoriously picky eater, and it's currently worse because he has a tooth that's bothering him so he only wants to eat soft, lukewarm foods that he likes. What also takes the cake is that today, my father has reached the bottom of the packable foods that Mom had left for him to pack for lunch.

Reasons why this is bad:
1. Dad likes to eat the same thing for lunch every day.
2. I can't cook the things he wants to eat for lunch every day.
3. Even if I found the recipes for the food he wants, it wouldn't taste like Mom's.
4. He'd just dump the food out and starve.

I'm currently racking my brain and going through my recipes (not to mention cooking mangas and cooking videos on youtube) to try to figure out what I can make, but at the same time, I don't even want to try, it's just way too hard to figure out how to cook something and make it taste like Mom's and it's not full of stuff he doesn't like.

List of things my father doesn't like:
1. Ginger
2. Cilantro
3. Any kind of seasoning really
4. Any kind of spaghetti sauce that's not tomato
5. Vegetables that aren't lettuce or radishes
6. Any kind of pasta that's not the plain spaghetti noodles
7. Peanut butter
8. Pretty much anything that's not Korean food
9. Any kind of chocolate that isn't milk

List of things my father likes
1. Meat
2. Fruit (except cherry tomatoes)
3. Korean food
4. Ranch dressing
5. Cheetos

*bangs head against the wall*

Comments

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

What on earth would he do if you actually had the job he's been bugging you to get, or (heaven forbid) had moved out? If he doesn't like being waited on hand and foot the big baby can go buy himself some take-out.

(I understand there are various cultural factors at play and he is your dad and you love him, but my first reaction is 'FINE, then go ahead AND STARVE!' Because that's how I was raised.)

[bluejeans07.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that the only reason my mom felt that she could go on a 3 week trip to Korea was because I currently don't have a job. Her trips were about a little longer than a week while I was working, it was a frustrating experience since I was driving back and forth from the valley every day, and running around the house like a maniac as soon as I got home so that everyone was fed and relatively clean.

What bugs the hell out of me right now is the double standard. Because I have lady parts, I'm expected to keep on top of the house work and, if I had a job, be a superstar at work at the same time. Men are only expected to be superstars at work and can lie in their own filth and scratch themselves, while watching other men rub up against each other and play with balls when they're at home. I made my brother vacuum yesterday morning and if I vacuumed as crappily as he did, then I would've heard it from my father. As it is, I was crabby about the shitty job and my father was all, "It's all good". ARGH.

[hope-guides-me.livejournal.com]

I don't envy you! ♥ Picky eaters drive me nuts!

[ghettopeach.livejournal.com]

*examines crystal ball*

I am seeing a lot of plain spaghetti with tomato sauce in his future. And maybe Korean meat smothered with ranch dressing and Cheetos, with a side of fruit.

I'm sorry about the double standard. It is le suck.

...maybe make your brother make the food, which your dad will then "like" anyway, even though it's crap, because what can you expect from a boy? (Make the double standards work for you, I say.)