01/12 - Sizzling Saturday!

The only reason my kids wouldn't be allowed to have a butter knife or make their own PBJ would be that I was in a hurry and didn't feel like cleaning up the wreckage. Because the thought of peanut butter and jelly all over my table, floor, cabinets, and ceiling makes me shudder. Note: my kids are destructive toddlers. And they try to clean (smear) their own messes. So for now, just leave the sandwich making to me. They are free to grab their own crackers, cubed cheese, and sandwich meat from the fridge, though.

 

This is also cheaper than buying lunchables, and also higher quality food somehow.

 

Man, we did everything when we were kids and as long as we were home before dark we were cool, unless we came home early cause we needed to go to the hospital. Kids these days can't do anything which is why they need safe spaces as adults.

 

See, this is different, this is knowing how to manage a home. Plus, toddlers. I do as you do though. Fruit is cut up in the fridge, fruit on the table. Blocks of cheese, crackers, yogurts, cottage cheese etc.... But I learned my lesson after being over protective with my oldest. If you can make it to the top of the stairs to ask me to make your lunch, then you can make it to the kitchen to make it yourself,lol.

 

We just got home, so I'm coming in mid-conversation, but...

It really baffles me sometimes how parents are amazed what their kids will eat if they're given the opportunity. We had a family over several years ago who fed their kids junk. My wife was very understanding and cooked salmon for the adults + our daughter, because our daughter grew up eating salmon and loves the stuff, but also made chicken fingers or something for their boys, because "that was all they would eat".

So the younger boy at one stage asked if he could try the salmon. Sure, we had plenty, and we're not about to tell the kid no, you can't eat actual real food. Surprise, he loved it. His mom was beside herself. "Brian," she yelled to her husband, "come and see this. Your son is eating salmon!!! Can you believe it??!?" My wife politely inquired if he'd tried it before. "No, he won't eat that kind of food!!!". Well, clearly, that was a somewhat inaccurate assertion, now, wasn't it?

The sad thing is I bet as soon as they got home it was back to regular junk food.

 

My aunts are like this with my cousins. Instead of feeding them actual food, they just buy tons of noodles because that's all they ever supposedly want. All you have to do is say "well you can starve" if they go "I don't want this" at dinner time.

 

Lies, how could you like those revolting little chocolate hockey pucks?

 

Very interesting, my daughter eats roasted asparagus as a snack. She likes the tips crispy,lol. But I do have one child that was not interested in trying anything, ever. Turned out that she had a "geographic tongue". I had never heard of it, but basically the taste buds shed off the tongue and it moves around, so your taste buds are always different, your tongue looks like a map. So something may be super sweet, salty, bitter etc... After the doctor told me that I adjusted the rules for her. The others had to eat what was made and I never had an issue.

 

I am definitely amazed at what kids will eat if you put it in front of them. My daughter is 16 months and loves spicey food. Who fucking knew?

I also once let her taste a sour Warhead and she said "mmmm"

Kids are fuckin weird.Or at least my kid is fucking weird.

 

The fuck???

 

Seriously guys, starve your kids enough and they'll eat anything.

 

I think my parents tricked me into eating everything. I was never really a picky eater except with onions and mustard - but I think that's because I THOUGHT I didn't like them - just because my older sister didn't like them. So she'd get something without - so I would... To fit in or be like my cool older sis or something. dunno. I now realize that onions and mustard is amazing food that should go on everything.

I've always liked eating vegetables, but I think it may be because I remember my mom telling me that if I pretend I'm a dinosaur - eating broccoli is like I'm a gigantic dinosaur eating trees. Which is pretty badass IMO. Would be cool to be a dinosaur eating entire trees. And broccoli is one of my fav foods now. Love the shit.

And mashed potatoes are like ice cream. stuff like that.

 

My dad was sick, and so my mom was the one who had to work, we had to learn how to cook at a very young age. I watched my brothers, and learned that way, and was eventually able to do it myself when I was a kid, now I watch youtube videos. Luckily we got knocked some common sense and safety practices early, because our dad would actually let us do it, and say, do it and see what happens. It scared us into not doing it.

 

My daughter will eat tomatoes all day, every day. She was super disappointed this morning because we didn't have any and she wanted them for breakfast. It doesn't matter what she's having for her main meal, or even what time of day it is; give her a side of raw tomatoes and she's happy as a clam.

 

She's not wrong

 

On my son's first New Years he was ten months old. A tipsy parent may or may not have started feeding him caviar and smoked salmon in his high chair. He should thank me now for all the sushi and foreign foods that he absolutely loves and is willing to try.

 

My grandmother played a fun game when I was a kid. Fine, you don't want to eat your food? You can have it in the morning. Or the afternoon, or the next dinner. But you're gonna eat that fucking food.

She grew up in the depression, she's crazy. I'm not a picky eater though.

My daughter loves salmon. I bet she would love caviar, too. Would be an interesting experiment. How expensive is caviar?

 

My elderly mom still makes me try three bean salad every Easter. And I'm four three.

 

Yeah, my fam was like this when I was a kid, too. My mom did not buy us fresh fruits or veggies, though. I think that's how she grew up and she never got a taste for them or something so she never fed them to us. Dinner always had to be something that could be made in like 15 minutes max with her too, though, so I'm starting to think she was just a not very good at parenting person.