A friend of mine here at Elmendorf introduced me to a great new cookbook. It is called Deceptively Delicious by Jessica Seinfield, Jerry Seinfield's wife. He is such a funny guy. Anyhoo. It is great because it hides the vegetables in the food kids love. Like mac and cheese that has pumpkin puree in it. It is a genius idea. The only problem I see is that you are not teaching your kids to like plain veggies and fruits. I bought the cookbook to try out, because I am having a hard time getting Emma to want to eat anything but junk. She sees her little friend that has all the "good" snacks and she munches down on chips and "fruit" snacks that are just glorified candy. I buy this stuff sometimes, but I don't want her eating this junk all the time. She literally doesn't want to eat good meals because of this. She is so young that I don't want to send her to bed hungry, and I don't want to force her to eat everything on her plate. I have a strong personal opinion about children being made to eat everything on their plate. I think children should obey their parents, but I also think kids usually know when they are full. If you don't teach kids to know how to stop eating when they are full, they won't get it as an adult either. Just my opinion. I could definitely be wrong.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
deceptively delicious
One of my goals this week is to help Emma want to eat better at meal times! :)
Posted by Erica at 2:40 PM
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This has been a struggle for us as well. It's a battle between wanting meals to be easy/convenient and wanting them to be healthy.
And I wholeheartedly agree about not forcing kids to eat. Henry will try at least one bite of anything new that we put in front of him, and if he doesn't like it he doesn't have to eat it. We're also against the whole idea of "cleaning your plate." (Just put smaller portions, which you should do anyway! You can always go back for more!) I know some people in my family are firmly in the other camp regarding this, but I don't want my kid(s) to have food issues.
That's probably all I should say about that. :)
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