Say cheese!- February 12, 2012
I had never given much thought to Jessica Seinfeld and her legally challenged Deceptively Delicious, but I’m thinking of downloading it to my Nook.
We’re hit and miss with vegetables in our house. Some days Charlotte is fine with them. Other days she tosses them on the floor. The dog subsequently turns her nose up at the green things and waits patiently for anything else to fall from the high chair into her drooly jaws. This leaves us forever scooping up peas, broccoli, or beans.
Out to eat this weekend I ordered Charlotte a grilled cheese off the kids menu. I cringed when the waitress asked if I wanted the side of fries. She offered steamed broccoli. When Charlotte’s food came she gobbled up the sandwich and spit out the broccoli.
::sigh::
Then I did something I’m not proud of, but it got vegetables in my child. “Excuse me, can I get a side of cheese sauce?”
I taught her how to dip the “little trees” into the cheese. She thought this was wonderful! Then Greyson and I made the mistake of laughing uncontrollably as she later dipped the trees in her hair, on her face, and on her clothes.
Most of the broccoli ended up in her belly thanks to the cheese sauce. I’m not sure if this is good or not. I’ll take any and all veggie-pushing tips.
Spread it around:
I think I responded to this, but computers are perplexing me. I added some links so it may have gone into SPAM. So my suggestions for veggies: One I wrote about in the post called “Let’s Make a Deal” which talks about trading the stuff kids like for the stuff that they don’t like. For example, we hold Will’s bread hostage because he likes it and give him pieces of bread as reward for eating various vegetables.
Another thing we do is this bird game. There’s a video of it on one of my posts- I think it’s the “What’s Happening” post, where you get her to pretend like she’s a “bird in the house” stealing food off your fork when you’re not looking. It’s hard to explain, but it works like a charm for us. I think Will would eat dirt if we put it on a fork and looked away and had an imaginary conversation about some kind of food stealing bird.
And, if all else fails, put cheese on it. Nothing wrong with that in my opinion.
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