Apparently I am a fraud...

so both of my children have told me. Let me explain..

Last Thanksgiving my daughter-in-law called me to ask me for my pecan (pee-can) pie recipe, it is Eric's favorite and since I was not going to be there she was going to make it for him, she is very sweet. I told her "Jenny, buy a bottle of Karo dark corn syrup and the recipe is on the back". Well off she went and Eric arrived home while she was making it. Asking Jenny "Hey thought you were making my mom's recipe" and Jenny said "I am" and Eric was crushed..the secret family recipe was merely a recipe from the back of a bottle. I got a phone complete with "This can't be...I thought it was YOUR recipe..is this what grandma Jan did TOO" I broke his heart with a pie recipe!
Skip ahead to yesterday..
My daughter sends me a message
Ryan: "hey mom, I made white chili tonight..it was really yum!"
me: "oh, I love white chili"
Ryan "sooooo I was taking out the garbage and was throwing away the Bush's Bean cans and saw a recipe on the back for white chili and I read it...IT WAS THE SAME AS YOURS!!!!!"
ME: "yeah, it is the same recipe"
Ryan "Oh, you did not!!"
Me " Yeah, I wrote it down incase it was not on the can at some point. My recipe card says Bush's Chili recipe"
Ryan: "Well, mine does not!!!!!"

So apparently my children thought I was the creator of these recipes that hold family secret quality...in their eyes I should have had my own Food TV show! I never said they were my recipes, I never meant to pass them off as my own..Soooooooo BIG..HUGE...GIGANTIC lesson learned..I now have two choices;
A. reveal ALL about my recipe box and the recipes it contains
B. hide the truth better!!!!
But now the problem is my children have found me out.....Maybe they will let my grandchildren think I am that cook [they] thought i was!
But I have to say I LOVE that my children thought I was THAT GOOD.