Feeding a Family of 10
Preparing food for a family of 10 is no picnic. Because mealtimes are bound to become hectic in this situation, the solution Bobby came up with was to serve the food in a buffet style. With help from the kids, she would prepare plenty of food, and everyone would help themselves to it. “We do cook just about every night,” Bobbi said in an interview, “preparing dinner in multiple pots and setting them out on the counter for everyone to serve themselves.”
Mealtimes were undoubtedly fun in the McCaughey household, and the parents mentioned that everyone loved to gather around and talk about their day over food. When the children were grown, that is. Until them, mayhem was the word to define mealtimes.
Pantry. Source: travelfuntu.com
Early pictures the media took when the septuplets were under one-year-old showed them aligned in highchairs ready to be fed. Their parents mentioned in later interviews that they were spoon-feeding them with the help of volunteers, as it was impossible to keep them still and feed them at the same time on their own.
According to Bobbi’s column in American Baby, some of the staple foods in their house were sandwiches, spaghetti, meats, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and cereals for breakfast. She wasn’t one to indulge picky eaters and stated her firm belief in uniformity when it came to food, which meant that everyone ate the same thing in the McCaughey household.