I think I’m going to make up my own sign, complete with cute mascot, and designate our house as “Picky Eaters R Us.” Picky doesn’t even completely describe the chaos we endure in my kitchen come 5 o’clock.
Considering the number of cookbooks I own and how many online recipes I have access to, I cannot find anything that my kids will eat, besides pancakes, pizza and junk food. I have literally run out of ideas of what to feed them.
I marvel at the food blogs (Pioneer Woman’s is awesome!) and I watch Iron Chef America dumbfounded at the number of ingredients these chefs put into their dishes. If there’s the forbidden “black stuff” on a piece of meat here, we’re in trouble.
When my oldest started eating jarred baby food, nearly 11 years ago, I was ecstatic because she loved vegetables! Green beans…no problem. Carrots…loved ‘em! She devoured almost everything we fed her and we thought we were on our way to a lifetime of healthy eating.
Obviously, you can guess her love of veggies has changed and it now takes her over 30 minutes to eat just a few pieces of chicken. Don’t threaten to put ketchup on it…she’s a naked-no-sauce kind of girl.
I was intrigued by the whole hide-pureed-food-in-other-food way of thinking but I haven’t actually tried it yet, mostly because I’m too cynical to think that my picky eaters wouldn’t be fooled.
My brother swears that kids outgrow their food pickiness, although I don’t know how he knows this since he doesn’t have kids. But he is a teacher and knows all kinds of stuff so maybe he read that somewhere.
I have money riding on the fact that my darling daughter will find a way to buck the system and ruin that train of expert thinking.
January 28th, 2008 at 11:13 am
I have a picky eater here too. Well 2 of us actually cause I can be pretty picky also. But man my son drives me crazy with how picky he is. He’s on a hamburger kick lately – hamburgers & hamburger helper. YUCK! As for fruits, vegetables & anything not ‘junk’ yeah it’s like pulling a tooth getting him to eat any of that stuff.