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.

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Kouryou-chan adores "noodles and sauce" and "pillows and sauce" as she calls spaghetti and ravioli. Yamarrashi-chan loves them too, but Kouryou will demand them all of the time. And this is home-made sauce too.

Yamarrashi went through a phase where she wouldn't eat most everything on her plate, and Kouryou is just going through that phase as well. Yamarrashi-chan is now willing to try most things that we give her (she still has an emotional issue with cheese for some reason) and further doesn't need food "hidden" in other foods like Kouryou-chan does (for example, chopping chicken up and mixing it with buttered noodles to get her to eat the chicken does very well for Kouryou).

We've started the kids on doing a little cooking, but it's an every once in a while affair. Maybe we should increase this to a once a week kind of thing? We've started including them in choosing one menu item a week for the dinner menus we set up at the beginning of the week (so we can buy weekly groceries), but maybe they should also be involved in cooking that item too. Or maybe another item, for variety?