Cam: When he doesn't like something, he takes FOREVER to eat it. Should I set him a time limit so he goes to bed with only a couple bites if he takes too long?
Kendall: She literally will not eat one bite of some things she doesn't like, making her dinner consumption about a zero. I've tried forcing her to take a bite and that ends horribly. My plan is to just keep serving her the foods and eventually she'll get to the point where we can use the, "If you take a bite of this, you can have this"...unless anyone has different advice for a barely two year old.
Tonight we had a delicious meal I found in one of my old cookbooks. I made it back when Chris and I had only been married a few months. I had Chris write his review which was, "Excellent! I give it a 10!". I health-ified it a bit this time, but we still both gave it an 8.5. :) I like it because I prepare dinner in stages throughout the day, so I made the filling this morning and then returned it to the stove to heat up quickly before baking.
Pizza Pie
1 lb. lean ground beef
1/2 cup chopped onion
1 (6 oz) can tomato paste
1 tsp. dried oregano leaves
2 Tbs. grated Parmesan cheese
1/4 cup bread crumbs
1 can Pillsbury pizza dough
1 cup mozzarella cheese
Cook ground beef and onion over medium heat until beef is cooked. Stir in tomato paste, oregano, 1 Tbs. Parmesan cheese, and bread crumbs. Keep warm while preparing crust. Unroll pizza crust and cut 1/3 off to throw away (you could use the whole thing, but this way it's fewer carbs). Press crust into a 9-inch, greased pie plate. Press filling into crust and top with remaining Parmesan and mozzarella. Bake at 350 for approx. 20 minutes or until hot and bubbly.
6 comments:
Looks delish!!!
So glad that they are going better than expected!!
Honestly, the issues seem very common. We started family dinner when Ava was 18 months old and she was very similar to Kendall. Because of all her feeding issues, I never forced her to eat. I made sure if I made something I thought she wouldn't like, I'd make a side that I knew she would like - for her, that was usually steamed broccoli. =) She always gets a bedtime snack, so if she didn't like dinner, her bedtime snack was usually something heartier.
Overtime, though, as she watched Kyle and I eating various things she became less and less picky, and now will always try at least a bite of anything I make.
I am definitely not strict with food, but I would say just give it time and modeling.
Way to go on starting!! =)
Glad things have been going better than you thought they would :)
If Alayna doesn't want to eat something there is no way on earth I can get her to take a bite. I figure I just keep offering it to her and a kid will not starve themselves. If they are hungry enough, they will eat :)
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Breven used to take forever to eat so we set a timer for a reasonable ammount of time for him to eat and every minuet he went over was one less of play time or earlier bed. It works for those clock obsessed kids, We also leave the kids at the table when they take too long alone until they eat what they need to. I found out how much a kid thier size should eat then I gave them those portion sizes and thats what they have to finish to leave the table.
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