Boys and Enjoying Food
2011
Involving the kids in cooking their own meals, especially when using different ingredients, has proven to be the secret to getting them to eat pretty much anything.
When I serve them beans they act like I am trying to kill them – when I offer beans as a topping for their pizza they put it on, and then eat it, without comment.
Kabobs have been popular at our house this week – I cut the {cooked} meat, vegetables, cheese and/or fruit and place in bowls. They then have a blast ‘spearing’ their food and putting together their own lunch. We did it for supper once this week and I let them put our skewers together too, which made them quite proud.
Seasonings have always been a favorite here. They will eat almost anything if it has a good shake of a favorite seasoning on it – they refer to it as “doctoring up” their food.
Thanks to their daddy they have had a wide range exposure to various seasonings. Their favorites right now are garlic powder, onion powder and ground red pepper from Nigeria.
We have had fun making experiments out of our food. The boys really enjoy this – last year we did food experiments with catfish and with bugs in Nigeria, and this year we are doing them on ourselves. So far I have cooked up a dozen or so different types of beans and given everyone one of each bean to rate.
I have bought red, yellow and orange peppers and we tasted each one, trying to decide which one is the sweetest. Yesterday I picked up 4 different onions and the plan is to try each one out and compare them.
I spent a few minutes this week making a video of them working on different parts of their meal:
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I'm jealous!! Gwen won't even try things even if she's helped to make them!
How about if she picks it out at the store?
Or if you make a "yucky/yummy face meter" {like what Dr offices have for sick kids} and ask her to rate the food on that… would she try a food for the chance to rate it?
Too cute, and you could give them lots of beets for another fun experiment!!
*I* don't like beets, so I don't think I'll feed that to them
Though I have heard beets and grapefruit make a good smoothie. I may try that one day
Even if she picks it at the store! I think her gluten intolerance makes her afraid to try things because of the fact that she felt so yucky for so long. Not sure.
She won't eat meat (won't even try it – unless it's lunch meat) and won't try veggies anymore either
I've not thought of a yummy/yucky meter … it's worth a shot!