A 25-year-old junior sous-chef was asked by his older sister to babysit her three kids for three days.

After successfully getting them to eat veggies, she wants him to cook for them daily—for free. Is he being unreasonable by saying no?

Read on for the story!

AITA for refusing to feed my sister’s kids for free every day?

My older sister (37F) has 3 kids under 10.

I (25M) don’t have kids yet but I’m a junior sous-chef and I cook a lot in my spare time.

During some recent time off from work my sister asked if I could babysit her kids after school for three days.

I said yes.

I watched the kids. She paid me for it and I thought that would be it.

But then she asked me what the kids ate with me after the week had ended, and then she wanted to know how I got her kids to eat a full meal.

Secret ingredient: Survival and a side of chaos!

Her kids are picky eaters.

They are typically the kids who will eat what they like off a plate (meat and potatoes, rice or noodles) and then leave the rest (veggies, sauces).

According to my sister and BIL, even if you give more veggies than something else they won’t eat them, and they’ll wait until their next meal.

If you give all veggies or insist they eat the veggies before anything else, they’ll skip the meal.

I sorta knew that about them before I babysat, so I blended veggies and other good stuff into their dinner the first day with me.

The second day I served them, but I hid them in plain sight, and on the last day I just served them in a way they don’t get them normally and they ate them without an issue.

But they wouldn’t eat them for my sister or BIL after.

Guess the veggie magic only works when you serve it.

There was some back and forth between us, and I shared some recipes but my sister said she couldn’t get them to eat the food.

So she wanted me to make food for her kids every day.

I asked if she was going to pay me for spending all that time and money and she told me I should do it as a way to help my nieces and nephews stay healthy.

I told her it’s a big ask.

She told me I have the chance to really help and put my skills to good use for family.

I feel like it’s asking a lot because they expect me to make something every day for the kids.

But my sister feels like I’m being a bad brother and uncle.

AITA?

It seems like he’s being asked to cook for her kids full-time with little appreciation.

Reddit thinks that’s pretty unreasonable.

The cost of groceries alone is enough to say no.

This person thinks the kids being picky has to do with the parents, not so much the food.

And this person just justifies quite how asinine the whole thing is.

Looks like being a “chef for the day” doesn’t mean signing up for an unlimited buffet!

This sister is wacky for even thinking he’d say yes.

If you thought that was an interesting story, check out what happened when a family gave their in-laws a free place to stay in exchange for babysitting, but things changed when they don’t hold up their end of the bargain.