A dining disaster

[elfs]

Well, dinner wasn't a complete disaster. I tried to cook Lemon and Thyme Lamb Chops with Spinach and Sweet Corn Mashed Potatoes, but the girls wouldn't eat either. I don't like corn! I don't like meat! And I hate anything green stuff!" Kouryou-chan insisted. Yamaarashi-chan just held her silence, ate the lamb, and left the veggies and starch untouched. Ah, well. It was a nice combo too; wish I'd had some mint jelly to go with it.

Grr. There has to be a way to get more into these girls than mere hot dogs and spaghetti.

Comments

[wyrdone.livejournal.com]

Having grown up overseas I was very open to new food ideas. (To this day my favorite dish is something that looks like it came out of a Lovecraft book....It's called Puntaitas (sp?) and is little bably octopi stewed in their own ink. (Aka Cthulian delight))

I think what did it most was being forced to cook for myself when I was 10 and encouraged to experiment.

FoodTV is a wonderful thing.

[wyrdone.livejournal.com]

So unpon further thought....make your kids cook and surrpticously remove some of the ingredients for less good meals.

No-frozen burger patties or cheap hotdogs, No freezer pizza, etc. However, keep on hand some of the instant pizza crusts (like boboli), ground meat, bratwurst, etc and allow them to "make" pizza, fresh hamburgers, etc.

Pickup some of the recipe books that have nice color photos (used bookstores & such are great for that) and flip through them and ask the kids to pick something.

I know your dealing with younger kids, but if you get them interested in good food now (and for their own enjoyment) it will stay with them their entire lives. As the sooner you can get them cooking themselves the better (as soon as it's safe to let them use knives and the stove). (For me that was when I was 10.)

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen "baby octopus salad" at fancy delis. The first time I saw it, I immediately thought of the 1980s toys, "Wacky Wallwalkers". Little fluorescent-colored octopuses ...