Archive for the 'picky eaters' Category
Kale Crisps
January 13th, 2009by Caroline “I put kale on his plate and put kale on his plate and put kale on his plate, and my son tried it and grimaced and we praised him for trying it and pages flew off the calendar and his beard grew down to the floor, and then one day he ate it [...]
Some Like ‘em Hot, a Pepper Conundrum
November 6th, 2008By Lisa Most of the time, we want our kids to eat what we eat, right? And most of the time, we work really hard to get them to eat what we put on the table, right? It’s been our general philosophy that the kids eat what we eat. End of story. In our home, [...]
Unfamiliar Waters
August 25th, 2008posted by Caroline After a week in Paris, we headed south for a week unlike any we’d ever experienced (or likely will again). To celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary, my parents gathered our family on a barge that toured rivers and canals in the south of France. We were the only passengers, cared for by [...]
A Tale of Three Restaurants
August 15th, 2008posted by Caroline In Paris, we rented an apartment, went to the market and fixed nearly all our own meals. But we wanted to take the kids out for a meal, just once, pretty much just to say we did. We carried several guidebooks that included sections on kid-friendly restaurants, but too often kid-friendly meant [...]
The Food (and friend!) that greeted us: a post about cheese
July 30th, 2008posted by Caroline In Paris, I was looking forward to meeting one of my long-time computer friends, Susannah Pabot, whom I met in an on-line writing class two years ago, and with whom I continue to exchange writing. The apartment we rented turned out, by great coincidence, to be only a short walk from her [...]
We like bananas, coconuts, and …
July 6th, 2008posted by Lisa My daughter Ella admits that apple bananas look awful, but taste really, really good. They’re best when they have a good number of brown spots, and they’re about half the size of commercial bananas we get on the mainland, and they taste just like, well, a banana should taste. After nap today, [...]
Feeding Finn
July 6th, 2008posted by Lisa Finn is my picky eater. As an infant, he ate everything, then one day, he refused everything green. And orange and red. For a year, he ate mostly rice and vitamins and fruit. I did what the books tell you to do–I offered him the same food we were eating, in the [...]