Most families probably have the rule: "we are cooking only one meal. Eat it or you get nothing." Or... "every bite you leave on your dinner plate will be your breakfast in the morning." Or... "don't want what we cooked? Well, then YOU can start cooking dinner from now on, and it must be healthy and well-balanced." Or... what we grew up with ... "you WILL stay seated at the table until the last bit is gone."
Sooo hard to force me, a picky eater, to eat things I couldn't even stand to smell. I obviously never got over my love/hate relationship with food. It is complicated.
When my kid was born, some 25+ years ago, I didn't want him to obsess over food like I do. I decided to make what my picky eater likes to eat, and will grab something else for me.
For the most part it works.
These are pics from last night's dinner. I wasn't hungry (still with stomach pains so just a bar for me), and Weslee was planning on just having chips.
He doesn't normally get that many grapes, but they're starting to go bad so I washed them and told him to eat the ones that weren't too squishy. He also got six chicken rings, and yes tons of ketchup. And he had apple slices and little bag of carrots. That kept him well until today's first meal.
For lunch, I had half of a turkey sandwich with lettuce snd apple slices. For dinner, well, that sandwich / lunch put my stomach back in the ringer so I ate SOME of the bar and put the rest in the fridge.
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Weslee needs more brain surgery for his seizures. Please go to his Medical GoFundMe or to our Paypal ... Thank you.
