Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 18, 2009

You’d go hungry in my house…..

The expressions bring back memories. LOL

LMAO! those faces are priceless!!!!!!!!

Get use to it Calvin, Susie can’t cook either

Marg, I’m with you. My kids only tried this once. They found that hungar was even harder to swallow.

Susie can’t cook either? I hope their budget (and their eventual communications skills across a table) can take in frequent restaurant dining…

May be Calvin can stand it. But I wonder how mom could !

I’m surprised Mom hasn’t lost her appetite. I did!

In our house we used to get a loving jab with a fork in the arm whenever we rested our elbows on the table… Which was followed with “If your that tired go to bed”

I wonder if Calvin’s mom works in the school cafeteria.We always had a somethin’ or other casserole during the week that I can remember and we all reacted about the same as Calvin.

I still won’t eat anything that ends in casserole

“Somebody puked on mine.” Hilarious. You’d think he’d want to eat it even more if she said it was puke.

If I had said that to my mom when I was small it would have been weeks before I could sit, and about that long before I had much in the line of food to eat. Calvin’s mom is so very patient and understanding of children & their imaginations!

Oh mom! What a compliment to your cooking that it looks like puke. But I hate hamburger helper too, I refuse to allow that slop into the house.

Casseroles are good if made correctly though and some of mine are great.

Here’s a clue for young moms from an old dad who raised two of those young moms:

Keep foods simple. Instead of casserole, serve a hamburger, a side of noodles and a side of veggies. Kids like things they can identify, such as fresh carrots instead of boiled mush.

Love it. Miraculously, Calvin will live.

After all these years, I actually remembered this one. Priceless!

If Calvin had been eating my Mom’s cooking, he would have been able to identify everything, because she didn’t believe in casseroles either. But I doubt he would have tasted anything: she boiled the death out the veggies and the meat was so well done, it was tough as shoe leather.

the way that calvin eats he needs to be at the table by himself.

OMG Calvin sounds so much like my husband. He thinks I can’t cook either. Especially anything from a slow cooker!

LOVE the throwaway joke!

I have to confess my secret shame - I really ENJOY Hamburger Helper - I always have at least half a dozen different varieties in my pantry. Macushlalondra…You’re welcome for dinner any time, but you can probably guess what’s cookin’…..

Our kids never had a chance. They were fed like that from the earliest.

first he HATES likes it now he sort-of likes it

I’m surprised that a lot Calvin strips that can be turned into animations and are also small (only 32kb).

Hamburger Non-Helper.

Hey, Hugh, I like that!! How’d you do dat??

Hugh, that’s hilarious! Please show us how to do it!

I have the same opinion as Calvin with Beef Stew - love the individual ingredients - but put them together & mushy overcooked vegetables - Yewww! Same opinion about Vegetable Soup!

The animated one is fine too!

“The pains aren’t as sharp anymore.”

LOL…too funny! Only because I’ve got a Calvin in my household too.

I got smart and learned what would drive my Mom nuts on those days just so I could be sent to bed with no supper! My room was near the kitchen so after my parents went to bed I’d sneak into the kitchen and make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. It was a much better choice. My parents were from the eat everything on your plate mentality even if you don’t like it. Before I got smart I had to eat sliced warm mushrooms in cold milk for dinner. I don’t know where she came up with that concoction but it was horrible and I puked it up all over the place when forced to eat it.

I have a boy that does just what Calvin does, only he does it with almost everything but meatballs…

I didn’t make that one, but I can make them. It’s not hard to make. You size the individual images on an image editor, I use Paint.net myself. Then you load each image into a .gif maker like the frames on a movie reel. I use Beneton Movie GIF for that. Both programs are free open source and can be found at Download.com or Filehippo. The Paint.net one IMHO is one of the best free programs made, it has numerous tutorials on it’s main site. Anyhoo, I have a boatload of Calvin animations that I will post for everyone, but only one or two per day so I don’t mess up the loading times of the pages for those with, not so fast internet connections.

Here’s another one (if you want to save them on your own PC just right-click and select “save image as”)

At our house if the kids pulled that my husband gave them a GENEROUS helping! Needless to say, the kids only did it once!

Thanks again, Hugh.

Way easier for my old brain to ‘save’ yours than try make my own.

Will be watching for more.

My mom tried the can’t leave the table till you eat your food thing. After 5 hours of me staring at the light above the table she gave up and sent me to bed. Then when I was 5 she told me if I don’t like what she makes I’d have to make my own food. I’ve been cooking for myself since.

Have you read what the ingredients are in Hamburger Helper? I won’t bring the stuff into my house either. I’ll make a casserole from time to time, but from scratch, that way I know exactly what went into it.

Lol. Luv the “someone puked on my plate”

Hugh Love your animations!

Thankfully, my oldest brother fought the food battle with my parents before I came along. I’m sorry, but you can’t really force a child to eat something they refuse to eat. You can persuade them, but not force them. By the time I came along (and old enough to remember), the rule was we were allowed to serve ourselves, but we had to eat what we took at home. But at school, many times I missed recess because I refused to eat everything on my plate. (They insisted on putting the same amount & stuff on every plate.) The final day the school cafeteria served lunch, my teacher decided she would stand over me while I cleaned my plate. I did. Then I promptly puked it back up. I always wondered if she tried to make any other students eat everything. (And I wasn’t a skinny child, so I didn’t need all those calories.)

I used to get away with murder as a kid, I was pitifully thin and sickly as a child so if I didn’t eat my mom felt guilty, conversely I now eat like a gannet, tho’ I’m still fussy about the quality ;)

It’s either the dinner that was served or a choice of PB&J or cold cereal in my grandma’s house–no one ever went hungry and grandma didn’t have to make something different for one person–you made your OWN PB&J and cereal

Thanks Hugh; I’ve started a new folder “C&H” to store them in along with the occasional inspirational panel or strip. Fantastic. BTW I love the second panel and wonder about Calvin’s reluctance to eat what is on his plate. Maybe Hobbes would like it better.

I wouldn’t want to eat that food, because it looks nasty.

Just appreciate having someone willing to fix meals for you. As my mom would say, if you don’t like it make something yourself or go hungry. The older I get, the better my mom’s cooking becomes.

Ushindi said,

I have to confess my secret shame - I really ENJOY Hamburger Helper - I always have at least half a dozen different varieties in my pantry. Macushlalondra…You’re welcome for dinner any time, but you can probably guess what’s cookin’…..

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But the hamburger helpers all taste exactly the same and there is wayyyyyyy too much sodium in them. When I make my own casseroles, soups, etc, I can control how much of everything goes in them. Like pot pies, I make my own rather than eat the store bought stuff which has very little meat.

This is a classic that I’ve mentioned several times over the past 20+ years. Not with our son, he’s a great eater, but sure have seen a bunch of little nasty’s that trained their parents into letting them get away with murder.

Mom. It IS a hit.

LOL. I actually like mixing all my food together and eating it that way. Now that I’m all grown up, I only do it when I’m eating alone :-)

Lol at the fifth panel.

This was me in 2nd grade, but w/ banana pudding. YUCK!

I like it: the magic color changing face! It goes from Blue to red to yellow instantly! But wait! If you call now, we’ll even throw in skin-colored! Call 1800-RAI-NBOW (extension FACE) now!

talk about exageration