I was excited to come home tonight and have dinner ready. I had a roast with potatoes and carrots cooking in the crock pot all day. Yum.
I fix plates for Torin and I (Chris was late) and we sit down at the table to eat.
Torin always asks for sauce, which means barbecue sauce but since we don't have any, I gave him ketchup. He proceeded to eat all the ketchup with his fingers and then ask for more. I told him he couldn't have any more ketchup unless he ate some potatoes and carrots. He got a few more drops of ketchup off his plate and said, "All done."
Seriously? A tablespoon of ketchup for dinner?
The food can make you crazy. And it has made me crazy. But I'm trying to let it go. If he was starving, he'd eat more than ketchup. And even if he is hungry, he won't starve before morning. I don't want food to be an issue in our house. So I need to try not to make it an issue.
Lord, help me. This is hard stuff.
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I heard a news story the other day about how when picky eaters are given a wide variety of healthy foods to choose from (so, what you generally put on the table -- meat, a veggie, some bread) they are more likely to eat a balanced diet over the long run than children whose parents force feed them (EAT YOUR VEGGIES OR ELSE!). When offered snack foods, those children are more likely to overindulge than those who are left alone. Interesting, huh?
In other news, Dave has figured out how to dip things in ketchup and that you can just keep dipping and licking and never actually eat anything but have an endless supply of ketchup. Smarty pants.
I totally believe it. We never force food...I don't want to create a "food issue" atmosphere in our house. So we just put a plate in front of him. Some nights he might only eat mac and cheese. Tonight he ate fish and broccoli and no mac and cheese. He apparently knows what he needs.
At least he licks the ketchup off of food. Torin either eats it with his fork or his fingers. :)
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