touchy subject with us here, FOOD! let me give you a bit of my background. i have been a vegetarian for 20 years (the reasons behind that will be saved for another post) and i always said my kids would eat healthy and lots of veggies and never eat fast food and blah blah blah.....yeah yeah yeah whatever.
well, my first daughter ate amazing homemade vegetable baby food at her daycare well into her threes and i was working so hard, i didn't feel guilty just giving her jars of babyfood and simple cheese/bread/applesauce and stuff like that. i wanted to spend my time with her and not slaving in the kitchen trying to make healthier food (even though homemade baby food was something i swore i would do before i had kids, oh well).
eventually she moved on to preschool and her eating habits turned into your everyday toddler/preschooler finger food where she quickly rejected fruit and vegetables. her current diet now consists of turkey bolgna wheat bread sandwhiches, cheese and yogurt, mac and cheese, spaghetti with "shake cheese" and no sauce, cheese pizza (more cheese) and milk. ok, lots of dairy and zero fruits and veggies. we have had the "sit at the table until you take a bite" hold outs that last for HOURS of crying, melting everyone down to complete mush (and still no bite). she won't eat at the cafeteria at school because "they serve vegetables" which i guess may jump onto her plate...oh no! so she gets her sandwhich and chips or crackers every single day. thats it for her.
my second daughter is better, she eats bananas (thank god!) and will drink my green smoothies (which is a leftover from my "raw food diet" days...another post for another day) which is full of fruit and veggies so i feel pretty good about that. she does have one bad habit, she loves cream cheese and wants a "cream cheese sandwich" often. somewhere along the way she wanted the cream cheese without the bread and we are left with this:
oh and this isnt "real" cream cheese, its tofu cream cheese (vegetarian mothers have a lot of tricks up their sleeves!) and she doesn't eat the whole thing in one sitting, this tub will last for days. (still pretty gross though.)
here's the turkey bolgna girl
Oh, I can so relate - to being vegetarian, to great intentions pre children, to moderate intentions, to frustration. I have three (ages 6, 4 and 9 months), and it is shocking what they will and won't eat. I laughed aloud at the pasta with shake cheese (and no sauce) which is the favorite at our house. I don't have a solution, but love knowing I'm not alone in this!
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