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I saw this on Oprah, too, and thought it was really great. You've motivated me to track down and buy the book - thanks! http://www.deceptivelydelicious.com/site/I saw on Tv some time back about a cook book that was written by Jessica Sinefeld (comedian Jerry Sienfelds wife). Cant remember the name, something like Deceptively Delicious. Anyway she basically purees foods like pumpkin, broccoli, carrots etc and uses them as ingredients in other more desireable foods like ummm rissoles or cakes or fish fingers or hamburger patties etc.
my 6yr old junior has always been a fussy eater since she started eating - but over the last year or so has just been getting worse and worse.
i cook meals she loved last week - yet this week she refuses to eat it .... i cook food she declares she loves that day - yet she picks it completely to pieces and refuses to eat any morsel that is not exactly perfect (in her eyes).
we have a reinforced rule in this house that if you don't eat a reasonable amount of your dinner, you don't get anything else to eat that night ... so she often goes to bed hungry and asking for something to eat (i refuse to give her anything else to eat and explain "again" that it was because she didn't eat her dinner).
neither of hubby or i are fussy eaters and are often enthusiastic about what we are eating.
we also have a rule that she has to try everything on her plate and if she doesn't like it she doesn't have to eat it - but it has to be tried - and i make sure that there is enough of her (supposed) favorites to give her sufficient to eat.
even the promise of chocolate icecream, if she eats enough of her dinner, is not enough - and she loves chocolate icecream. so when told she won't get icecream because of not eating, the evening often ends in tears/screams and her being sent to her room.
is sooooo frustrating. the only vege she will eat is carrot and corn. is currently off all fruit. meat is a on/off food (very tender but well cooked steak and boiled sausages only!). likes her carbs of pasta and white bread. can eat/drink dairy until the cows come home.
now - she's not undernorished, is tall for her age, intelligent and i suppliment her with kiddies vitamin/mineral tablets ... but it is so frustrating having her like something one day and hate it the next - and picking her food to pieces to pull out the tiniest speck of green/red/brown.
any suggestions? i know, in the scheme of things it's not a big battle, but if she's every going to go to a friends or restaurant for dinner she needs to learn to just eat her dinner without the fussing. the fussing is also driving her dad to distraction.
Mine has stubborn down to an art form - if she doesn't want to eat something she won't eat it. We tried "no other food until you eat your dinner" with something she hated that would keep in the fridge and could be eaten cold but she went a scarily long time (more than 24 hours) so we've never done that again.*looking up* " one....."
" FINE! I HATE THIS MEAL!"
" two......"
*child puts food in mouth and protests by sooking*.
i'm happy to repeat this for as long as it takes, even if i have to count down every single mouthful.
our dinner times always end up as screaming matches. i hate it. i wish the oldest two would just shut the f*ck up and eat it. it's beyond frustrating - it's borderline insanity.
Here's what I do (just to lighten this thread up a little)...
Serve dinner. Open a bottle of wine. Pour large glass. Sit down, smile and sip.
Apparently I once asked my Mum for a block of cheese for my birthday. Nothing else, just the cheese. For me to eat as much as i want when I wanted.
George Costanza said:(inhales deeply) I tell you, Jerry, I'm feeling something. Something I haven't felt in a long time.
I wanna bite into a big hunk of cheese, just bite into it like it's an apple.
http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheFoundation.html
Yeah! Look at me! I was free and clear! I was living the dream! I was stripped to the waist, eating a block of cheese the size of a car battery!
Jerry: Before we go any further, I'd just like to point out how disturbing it is that you equate eating a block of cheese with some sort of bachelor paradise.
Here's what I do (just to lighten this thread up a little)...
Serve dinner. Open a bottle of wine. Pour large glass. Sit down, smile and sip.
Just don't give in!but the annoying part is the "won't eat dinner but wants something at bedtime" and the tears when she doesn't get it.