Tonight I went for the easy meal and pulled out some french fries, frozen fish sticks (though in my defense, they’re really GOOD fish sticks, they get very crispy and tasty), and popped those in the oven while making some vegetables on the stove.
The meal went over well. Hayley ate all her fish, half her fries and about half her vegetables. Afterwards, she wanted half a bagel for dessert, which is odd but definitely doable. Breanna did quite well too, leaving only half a fish stick, about half the fries, and all the vegetables that weren’t peas (her favorite). For dessert, she wanted ice cream, and since ice cream counts as dairy (even her doctor said a little is fine because she doesn’t drink milk) I gave her a small bowl of it.
Then I went to take her plate away to start clearing the table while she ate dessert and holy hell, did she get mad. “No! Mine! My plate!” Fine then, ma’am, there’s your plate.
And she sat there, taking a bite of fish stick, a spoonful of chocolate ice cream, a bite of french fry, and spoonful of ice cream, on and on.
It was at that point that I came to the glorious conclusion that kids? They are GROSS.
… and how many parents would love it if their kids were eating their food without complaints … regardless the order. lol
Kids are so strange! Lea hates to eat meat and we keep trying to encourage her and the other night we actually said “you can have more carrots after you eat some of your meat”. I mean really, using vegetables as leverage! LOL…
Richard – Oh I know, I definitely didn’t mind that she was eating. But it was still gross. I told George I didn’t even eat anything that disgusting when I was pregnant (well, unless you count poutine, but that depends on your point of view!).
Mar – That made me laugh because I’ve been there too. One time we were eating something semi-junky like chicken nuggets and Breanna wanted some yogurt and we were saying, “just finish one nugget and a few fries” and then I realized we were encouraging her to eat something not-so-great before giving her something healthy!
(I swear we don’t eat just junk)
I have a hard time watching Oliver eat. He is a ‘dipper’ — he dips EVERYTHING into whatever beverage he has during dinner. Doesn’t matter what it is, he’ll dip his food into it. At the end of his meal his beverage is usually thick and with food and floaters, and he drinks it up like it’s chocolate milk or something.
*gag*
I can totally relate to your post. Last night my little guy had 2 spoon rice, 1 piece of cheezels. We mums will try everything just to make sure the dinner is eaten with minimal fuss.
Oh, mamatulip. Good lord. The dipping in the drink is bad enough but I could handle that. Drinking it after would have me needing to leave the table so as not to witness it. 😀
I’m so jealous your kids eat that stuff. I wonder if gold fish counts as a vegetable??