I hate kid food.

Well, I don't hate all kid food.
I LOVE mac & cheese, I just know
better then to eat it, much.  
Truthfully, I steal several bites when I make it. 
(those calories don't count right?)

I shouldn't even be making mac & cheese.
It's not good for them!
Just because I pair it with peas & applesauce 
doesn't make it healthy.

I really struggle with kid dinners.
I know, as the mom, we are supposed
to encourage our children to eat the meals 
we cook.

This is something I just plain suck at.

It's not because I have something against 
forcing them to eat something they are not
thrilled about.

In fact, I will admit it, I take a tiny amount 
of joy knowing Ava won't eat something,
but making her sit there for years on end 
anyway, while she plays her little game. 

It keeps her out of my hair for a long 
period of time and I'm just mean like that.

But the only reason I am mean about THAT
is that I barely EVER make her eat anything
she doesn't love because I never cater the
meals I'm cooking to our kids.

I don't want to eat kid food for dinner.

I want flavorful, exciting meals that make 
us excited about eating them.

We love food.

I basically only cook things I think John and 
I will love. 

I don't even consider the kids in our meal planning.
I hate boring, tasteless food and they hate super
flavorful awesome food.

Ugh.

Generally it's really spicy too and that just 
doesn't seem fair to make them eat.  

I think I need to get past this, I need to phase 
them into our meals without losing out on what
we want to eat.

I do a decent job of adapting our food for them,
 make pizza & only put toppings on their part they like
or pasta without the sauce, just noodles & cheese.
  Tonight I made baked chicken chimichangas and
Ava ended up with a bean & cheese wrap
that she protested for hours.

I should make a cook book that focuses on a 
step by step meal planning that results in great 
flavorful spicy meals but pulls out a bland, kid
friendly meal from the same ingredients half way 
through. I could make millions!!
The thing that has been really killing me in the 
kitchen recently is that Ava has all of a sudden 
been super allergic to onions, not eating them,
but me cutting them or cooking them.  It's crazy!!

She gets swollen, weepy eyes for a least 24 hours
after merely walking anywhere near the kitchen 
while I am cooking or preparing dinner,
 and I put onions in EVERYTHING.
 Poor baby.  This is a picture I took of her the next 
morning after I had sauteed some onions & I had
even made a point to keep her out of the kitchen.
CRAZY.

I'm hoping this is just some weird fluke and she only
reacts to this particular batch of onions.  I have never
seen her have this kind of reaction before and I have
cooked them most nights her entire life.  

So my question to you, do you make dinner focusing 
on things your kids will like or do you make them a 
separate meal?  

Do you think I am ruining them forever and they will 
never eat what I cook? 

I feel bad for posting that awful picture of her, here is 
a better one to leave you with : )
My beautiful girl deserves happy eyes!

But sadly I can't give up onions, 
good thing the weather is improving, 
I guess I will just send her outside 
(to eat her mac & cheese)!
: )

Comments

Rachel said…
Oh poor kiddo!! Wow, what an awful allergic reaction!

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