“Mom, I want to do Romen Noodle Chicken! Alex told me about it at school.”
“Awesome!” (thinking this is some fun ethnic recipe that we get to try…) “Did he give you a recipe?”
I start googling “romen noodle chicken” to find a fun recipe to try.
“No mom, he said it’s just something that you get at the store.”
oh no, he can’t mean…
he really wouldn’t be so excited about…
I have tried so hard to have us stay away from…
I google the dreaded words:
“Yes! That’s it! That’s what I want to make for my dinner night!”
(insert mommy face-palming herself icon here)
All was not lost… I started googling recipes with ramen noodles in them, which then added chicken and vegetables. Lots and lots of vegetables.
Every recipe received a shake from his head.
“no, I just want the noodles”
“What about this one with fun broccoli added?”
“nope, just the noodles”
“This one with yummy chicken??”
“nope.”
So, I went to the store, searched diligently, and finally found the family pack size of Ramen noodles.
And on his cooking night, I finally talked him into doing two batches.
… at least some of us got some vitamins out of the meal 🙂
And he got to have his straight-up-nothing-added-even-drained-the-juice-rAmen-noodles-chicken.
now, if you’ll excuse me… I need to go schedule his triple bypass surgery for a few years down the road… :O
