This morning I made a beautiful breakfast: tomato and goat cheese omelettes with fresh eggs (just laid yesterday :) ), bacon, grapes, yogurt, and a mini blueberry muffin.
DS ate the yogurt and the muffin. DD ate the bacon and the muffin.
I give up. I thought it was delicious but they do this all the time. It drives me nuts!
LoL! So true :)
Quoting epoh:
Oh I know it's normal but it doesn't endear me to them. Lol
Quoting Serenity75:
They're called kids -lol. Every kid does this, trust me. One day they love something then the next day they hate. Does matter that it's been their favorite food for the last couple of years. Once they make up their mind they no longer want it... that's it.
Yes, this happens here too. It's 7 of us and if I get 6 yay's there's one nay...or 4 yay's and 3 nays, etc. and so on and so on...but then I feel it may be my fault too because sometimes my menus run pretty blah and I may do repeats...serve the same thing 2 or 3 days.
Quoting SweetLuci:It's frustrating. But you're doing the right thing by providing a variety of good food for them. As an older friend once told me. I's your job to provide healthy food for them; it's their job to decide what and how much of it they eat. I found with my picky eater, that if I didn't make any comment on what he was eating, or how good everything was-which was very hard for me to do-he would eat more.
Quoting starlight1968:my dh doesn't like "fancy" foods..just boring everyday stuff... he's the picky eater. What pisses me off is he'll make a comment and it effects dd. She may have eaten a bunch but once dh spouts then she's done too...grrr. He's getting better at it tho as I told him it hurts my feelings and I like to cook new stuff.
Leftover rice and beans can be made into a rice and bean casserole, leftover taco fixings can be made into a soup, leftover roasted veggies can be used in a stir fry, etc.
Quoting delanna6two:Yes, this happens here too. It's 7 of us and if I get 6 yay's there's one nay...or 4 yay's and 3 nays, etc. and so on and so on...but then I feel it may be my fault too because sometimes my menus run pretty blah and I may do repeats...serve the same thing 2 or 3 days.
Quoting goddess99:I've gone through this too. My dd is 9 so now I ask her what she wants to eat and I Just make that. No extras cause I know she won't eat it and I was sick of throwing away food/money.
Your kids are still pretty young I think, and that makes it much harder. Letting her choose between two things is really a good idea, and helping in the kitchen, but don't worry. It is a long process. My son that started out as a picky eater, now that he's older, has grown to like lots of things that we just kept offering, and now experiments with lots of new things. I just tried to have healthy foods available and not resort to the junk food that he wanted, and though I was afraid he was going to starve, it eventually worked out.
Quoting epoh:
I'll try to remember that. I do let DD choose our meal a lot of the time too. I'll have two dinner ideas and let her choose from the two. I can let her choose and let her help me prepare the meal but it still doesn't make her more inclined to eat it.
Quoting SweetLuci:
It's frustrating. But you're doing the right thing by providing a variety of good food for them. As an older friend once told me. I's your job to provide healthy food for them; it's their job to decide what and how much of it they eat. I found with my picky eater, that if I didn't make any comment on what he was eating, or how good everything was-which was very hard for me to do-he would eat more.
Quoting SweetLuci:Your kids are still pretty young I think, and that makes it much harder. Letting her choose between two things is really a good idea, and helping in the kitchen, but don't worry. It is a long process. My son that started out as a picky eater, now that he's older, has grown to like lots of things that we just kept offering, and now experiments with lots of new things. I just tried to have healthy foods available and not resort to the junk food that he wanted, and though I was afraid he was going to starve, it eventually worked out.
Quoting epoh:
I'll try to remember that. I do let DD choose our meal a lot of the time too. I'll have two dinner ideas and let her choose from the two. I can let her choose and let her help me prepare the meal but it still doesn't make her more inclined to eat it.
Quoting SweetLuci:
It's frustrating. But you're doing the right thing by providing a variety of good food for them. As an older friend once told me. I's your job to provide healthy food for them; it's their job to decide what and how much of it they eat. I found with my picky eater, that if I didn't make any comment on what he was eating, or how good everything was-which was very hard for me to do-he would eat more.
Raw onions? wow! Mine used to suck on lemons and I thought that was strange.
Quoting epoh:
They are still little. DD has actually always been my one to eat anything and everything--including raw onions! Refusing foods is pretty new for her. DS is my pickier eater. it's hard when they're both being picky about different things. Lol and yup, I'm more stubborn than they so they'll get the healthy stuff whether they like it or not. ;)
Quoting SweetLuci:
Your kids are still pretty young I think, and that makes it much harder. Letting her choose between two things is really a good idea, and helping in the kitchen, but don't worry. It is a long process. My son that started out as a picky eater, now that he's older, has grown to like lots of things that we just kept offering, and now experiments with lots of new things. I just tried to have healthy foods available and not resort to the junk food that he wanted, and though I was afraid he was going to starve, it eventually worked out.
Quoting epoh:
I'll try to remember that. I do let DD choose our meal a lot of the time too. I'll have two dinner ideas and let her choose from the two. I can let her choose and let her help me prepare the meal but it still doesn't make her more inclined to eat it.
Quoting SweetLuci:
It's frustrating. But you're doing the right thing by providing a variety of good food for them. As an older friend once told me. I's your job to provide healthy food for them; it's their job to decide what and how much of it they eat. I found with my picky eater, that if I didn't make any comment on what he was eating, or how good everything was-which was very hard for me to do-he would eat more.
Do you EAT food your not suppose to?
- epoh
on Mar. 1, 2012 at 8:12 AM