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Picky eaters by hulver

(2.00 / 0) #1 Thu Jun 26, 2008 at 05:36:22 AM EST

My kids are not picky eaters. We've never made a fuss, or done anything special for them. They get put on their plate what we have on ours.

We all sit down to eat the same stuff at the same time.

If they don't like it, they don't eat it. We don't leave it off the plate or make a fuss when they don't eat it.

They only exception is that D2 doesn't like cheese sauce, so she won't get it poured all over something like cauliflower, but she'll still get a little puddle of it on the plate somewhere so she can try it and see if she still doesn't like it.
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Cheese is not a hat. - clock

We made too big of deal with food, and it became by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #2 Thu Jun 26, 2008 at 05:42:36 AM EST

a power struggle. Later it was just easier to throw some chicken nuggets in the microwave.

Slowly they're trying new stuff and getting away from junk. Yesterday nearly seven year old was complaining she was starving, when I wouldn't give her junk she tried a banana, and ate one and a half.

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There's hope yet by sasquatchan (4.00 / 1) #3 Thu Jun 26, 2008 at 05:55:16 AM EST

cheese sauce on cauliflower or broccoli is a culinary disaster. The only thing cheese sauce goes on are nachos.

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You are incorrect. by toxicfur (3.00 / 2) #4 Thu Jun 26, 2008 at 05:59:48 AM EST

Properly made cheese sauce is delicious on lots of stuff. Especially cauliflower.
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iawtp re cheese sauce by wiredog (3.00 / 2) #5 Thu Jun 26, 2008 at 06:06:58 AM EST

It's the only way I can eat broccoli or cauliflower.

Earth First!
_{(We can strip mine the rest later.)}

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They taste great raw by georgeha (4.00 / 1) #6 Thu Jun 26, 2008 at 06:07:54 AM EST

even without dipping in a dipping sauce. Broccoli is good in stir fries, too.

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: True by wiredog (2.00 / 0) #8 Thu Jun 26, 2008 at 06:08:36 AM EST

But it has a sauce in the stir fry.
Raw is just wrong.

Earth First!
_{(We can strip mine the rest later.)}
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Correct by ucblockhead (4.00 / 1) #9 Thu Jun 26, 2008 at 06:17:33 AM EST

This is because neither cauliflower nor broccoli is a "food".
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What sort of veg are you? by georgeha (4.00 / 1) #11 Thu Jun 26, 2008 at 06:18:39 AM EST

Cruciferous veggies are great, I have to make sauted brussel sprouts again soon.

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ugh by ucblockhead (2.00 / 0) #12 Thu Jun 26, 2008 at 06:19:52 AM EST

Brussel Sprouts are even worse.
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Try them sauteed in olive oil with Old Bay season by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #13 Thu Jun 26, 2008 at 06:23:23 AM EST

ing, they're awesome.

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: Dang ! by Phage (2.00 / 0) #17 Thu Jun 26, 2008 at 06:44:50 AM EST

Now you've made me hungry.

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fuss is bad by Merekat (2.00 / 0) #14 Thu Jun 26, 2008 at 06:23:31 AM EST

I'm a fussy eater, definitely, but your way is a good way of handling it.

Fuss when a child refuses to eat is not good. So a neighbour learned while looking after us when we were kids. She held my nose and made me swallow beans because I was a bad child. I was a worse one after I puked on her:)

Contrast with my mother, who just made normal dinners and I ate the bits I liked, and left what I did not until I was old enough to cook and clean up after myself.

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Are they allowed by R Mutt (2.00 / 0) #15 Thu Jun 26, 2008 at 06:38:54 AM EST

To fill up on biscuits, cakes, crisps and chocolate later if they haven't eaten their dinner though?

I don't recall my parents ever forcing me to eat anything in particular... but they didn't really need to when the alternative was staying hungry...

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Rarely by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #16 Thu Jun 26, 2008 at 06:41:51 AM EST

I'm just getting tired of being a short order cook and making three separate dinners.

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: Food by ucblockhead (2.00 / 0) #18 Thu Jun 26, 2008 at 06:45:56 AM EST

We've got the FoML pretty well trained. "Don't like it? The fridge is over there."
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We did the same by Phage (2.00 / 0) #19 Thu Jun 26, 2008 at 06:47:44 AM EST

If you don't eat it, there is no second choice and you go hungry.
Now there's one or two things they don't like, but then who doesn't ? Everything else gets hoovered up.

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No by hulver

(2.00 / 0) #20 Thu Jun 26, 2008 at 06:50:44 AM EST

The opposite. If they don't eat "enough" then they don't get a pudding.

Yeah, the choice is either to eat or go hungry. Works remarkably well.
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: I've heard of that that by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #21 Thu Jun 26, 2008 at 06:52:09 AM EST

How can you have any pudding if you won't eat yer meat?

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wipo: Send it to DC by wiredog (2.00 / 0) #7 Thu Jun 26, 2008 at 06:08:01 AM EST

Now that the 2nd Amendment has been held to protect an individual right the people of DC need a place to keep their artillery.

Earth First!
_{(We can strip mine the rest later.)}

: What is DC going to do wtih tractors? by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #10 Thu Jun 26, 2008 at 06:17:43 AM EST

I think it was used for National Guard Engineers (Brigade Support Battalion), though on 9/11 they got guns somehow and were guarding it with M16s.
I did wonder why the displayed artillery went away, a big one before OIF, and a small howitzer a few months ago.

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Your neighbourhood: by ammoniacal (2.00 / 0) #22 Thu Jun 26, 2008 at 07:28:01 AM EST

It's an interesting look, having been there.
It reminds me of Generals' Row on Fort Lewis. OLD SKOOL

"To this day that was the most bullshit caesar salad I have every experienced..." - triggerfinger

We even got streetview now by georgeha (4.00 / 1) #23 Thu Jun 26, 2008 at 07:52:09 AM EST

based on renovations to the Porsche's porch, the google van came through last fall. It's almost like living there.

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: I saw the Google Earth plane by ambrosen (2.00 / 0) #24 Thu Jun 26, 2008 at 10:40:01 AM EST

It (OK, or any other similar aerial photography plane) flew over on Tuesday. I'm in the Parade Gardens, behind a gaggle of Spanish schoolgirls with exposed thongs (they took up position after I got there). I've no idea when it gets tiled and uploaded.

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Speaking of Death... by ObviousTroll (2.00 / 0) #25 Thu Jun 26, 2008 at 11:28:09 AM EST

Did you ever read On A Pale Horse?

Death drives a bone yellow Corvette.

When appropriate.

I have not by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #26 Thu Jun 26, 2008 at 11:30:34 AM EST

I don't recall ever reading any Piers.

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: He has his problems as an author by ObviousTroll (2.00 / 0) #27 Thu Jun 26, 2008 at 11:39:09 AM EST

Piers is his first name, by the way.
He was very big back when we were in school - one of those authors who was popular enough that he could sell outlines of stories and then, once they sold, write the books.
His strength as an author is his ability to create innovative plots and backgrounds - ranging from hard SF like Bio of a Space Tyrant to "urban fantasy" like On A Pale Horse to comedic fantasy like A Spell for Chameleon.
His weakness, which was glaring once I realized it, is that his characters all basically feel like the same person.

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they're coming by dev trash (2.00 / 0) #28 Thu Jun 26, 2008 at 02:47:25 PM EST

I saw some this past weekend.

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: The girls said they saw one in the garage tonight by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #29 Thu Jun 26, 2008 at 04:08:55 PM EST

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The feel good Nazi death camp movie of the year | 29 comments (29 topical, 0 hidden)