7 Things You Can't Tell Your Mum About Her Food

If you’ve got a love of food or a couple of recipes that you really take pride in, the chances are that this is at least partly down to your mum. Mums get us in the kitchen, introduce us to meals and help to inspire us with food.

In fact, it’s often mums who help shape the Chefs of the Future, teaching us great skills that we use throughout life, even if it’s just how to boil an egg. Your mum probably wowed you with her ability to make a meal out of anything and inspired you to walk in her footsteps.

However, it doesn’t matter how great a cook your mum is, you probably have a secret you’ve been keeping from her about it.

However, whether your mum’s a great cook or maybe not quite so good in the kitchen, you’ve probably got a few things you’d never want to tell her about her cooking…

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Whether she can whip up any dish as well as a Michelin-starred chef or has a few tried and tested recipes that have stayed the same over the years, no one’s mum gets it’s perfect every time.

That’s not to say you’ll tell her when she gets it wrong, after all, she’s still your mum. However, it can cause a few uncomfortable moments when you’re trying to hide your true feelings.

Here are some of the things we would never tell our mum about her cooking:

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You haven’t eaten meat for years, you share pictures of your latest vegetarian concoctions on social media and only ever take her to restaurants that have a good veggie menu, and yet your mum always asks if you’re still a vegetarian.

If she doesn’t constantly double check whether you eat meat yet, she’ll forget that you’re a vegetarian and serve you up a plate of roast beef when you visit, which you have to politely pick at.

And if you’re a vegan or pescatarian, you know you’ll have to explain what that is again on every trip home.

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It’s one of the best meals of the year and the perfect excuse to eat too much, but you just know that your mum is going to overcook the turkey. Rather than tell her and hurt her feelings though, you’ll just tell her that you really love gravy so you can swamp the meat in the stuff and make it easier to eat.

She’ll suggest to everyone that it’s a bit dry, but you’ll disagree with her and tell her it was perfect. Because you know how hard she’s worked on it.

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You mum is convinced that her beef lasagne is your favourite meal ever and will whip it up for you whenever you go over for dinner. But the truth is you don’t really like pasta or beef or garlic and this meal is far from your favourite.

You’d never tell her though because she’s always so happy that she’s “remembered” you like it and has taken the time to prepare it especially for you.

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You can try and tell your mum this, but the chances are she won’t really listen. After all, you’re a growing boy/girl, so that means you need third helpings of this ridiculously unhealthy meal, as well as rich dessert. Even if you do decide to tell her, you’ll feel guilty because she’s made it/bought it especially for you coming over…

Of course, part of you secretly likes the fact that seeing your mum is the perfect excuse to break your diet because there’s no way you’ll be able to leave the house without having at least one treat.

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If you’re at home on a Wednesday night, you know your mum is going to cook cottage pie, while Friday’s dinner will always be fish and chips. There are many things in the world that are predictable, including your mum’s weekly menu.

Sure, she might throw you off every now and then by serving up a curry or a different kind of casserole, but the chances are this is only because the main ingredient was on offer so she thought she’d be adventurous. You know your mum would hate to think she’s predictable so you stay quiet and enjoy the fact that some things never change.

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Finding a restaurant that your whole family is going to enjoy can be hard enough as it is, but when you have you mum exclaiming over the price of drinks, the size of meals and the level of service, it gets a whole lot harder.

Taking your mum for a meal can be difficult. Even if you want to treat her, she’ll insist on paying or picking the cheapest thing on the menu, even if she doesn’t like it. Not to mention your embarrassment as the waiter tries to be patient with her particularly fussy order of Hunter’s Chicken without the bacon, cheese or barbecue sauce (so… just plain chicken then?).

Then there’s the fact that she’ll compare the meals to her version, which is always better. It’s time to face facts, you may as well just go to her’s for dinner.

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No matter how long you’ve lived away from home, what experiences you’ve had or the distance between you and your mum, sometimes all you want is for her to serve you up a home cooked meal – even if it is your fake favourite.

It doesn’t matter what type of cook your mum is or what she can make, every now and then you just want her to fuss over you and give you a heaping plate of a predictable, diet-breaking, yet oh-so-comforting meal.

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