Any Home Bakers Here?

[Jesusfreak101]

I wish we cant afford it but i might use a friend or the moms day out at our church... If this is the crazy ness i be dealing with i diffently need atleast a day i can nap.

 

[OrganicFarmWife]

Lol ok now i need to make some so i am not left out lol. What to make to go with it is the question i thinking fried catfish, thats been lucy favorite lately.

i thought twos werent bad she almost three and the fight her on eating what she given and not snacks is dricing me batty please tell me it gets easier

I have a picky eater too, so it sympathise. I used to (before children ) believe firmly that that all you needed to do to stop a picky eater is let them get hungry. Then I watched my 2 year old go three days with out eating anything except 2 glasses of milk :/. Now I make her eat, within reason, what we are eating for lunch. And feed her whatever it is she will eat, for supper. It usually means she eats little to nothing for lunch, and hotdogs and chicken nuggets for supper. But I can sometimes get her to at least try a bite of lunch. I do not know if it ever gets better. Thing 2 will eat anything.

I wish we cant afford it but i might use a friend or the moms day out at our church... If this is the crazy ness i be dealing with i diffently need atleast a day i can nap.

My mom used to trade babysitting with a friend who had a girl my age. I think it was once a week, she watched the friends kids and it gave her one day off to go shopping and get things done. Do you have a friend to trade with. (It was great for me, I am still close friends with the girl, woman)

 

[tjo804]

Lol ok now i need to make some so i am not left out lol. What to make to go with it is the question i thinking fried catfish, thats been lucy favorite lately.

i thought twos werent bad she almost three and the fight her on eating what she given and not snacks is dricing me batty please tell me it gets easier

Ohhh with fried catfish!
Oh yes that will be good!

I'm not a huge corn bread person, I don't dislike it, but I definitely don't crave it or have it except if I'm somewhere and it is being served. However you guys all talking about corn bread and posting pictures is making me maybe want to try and make some! Lol. I now have the day off unexpectedly, so I might need to try my hand at making some!

Try it,
Try it I say,
you may like it you will see,
Be lickin your lips just like me

 

[Jesusfreak101]

Lucy use to be agood eater i crying with how difficult she become thingnisni cant let her go with out because of her blood sugar so it causes me to give in. As long as i get protien in her i am happy but i would love for her to eat what i have made. Lately she hard to get to eat protien all she wants is snacks so no snacks in the house hopefully stops it(dreaming done it before it doesnt but i can dream) i can get her to eat bacon and fruit and veggies and chicken and fried fish just not beef really and not a few other things. Yeah but she has five kids now lol i doubt she or i are up for an Afternoon of six of them. My other friend has older kids that lucy loves playing with and they with her her youngest is six but they all get along great she the one i am going to beg plus her ten year old is more then willing (she begs me) to come over and watch lucy so i might use that to my advantage lol. It changed to bbq chicken i had planned for lunch because i dethawed it but decide i didnt feel like meay for lunch we had now two days of healthy lunches with little to no meat. We do cheese for protien and cottage cheese she loves has 13g of protien woohoo winner. I mix it with avacodo and make a dip out of it she loves

 

[Alice28]

Try it,
Try it I say,
you may like it you will see,
Be lickin your lips just like me
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I think I will. I'm trying to get my son out and playing as much as possible today, we will be headed out for our second play date soon, before it starts to rain. It looks like the rain will start at four, so that will be a perfect time to make the cornbread and relax at home. It should be raining the rest of the week, so I want him outside when possible.

 

[appps]

It does get better . You just have to hang in there and not let them totally run the menu . My son was a shocker from toddlerhood he would even refuse foods he loved if they had anything he didn't like touch them. Remember him refusing mashed potatoes because one single speck size broccoli speck was on it arghhhh lol. He also refused on colour, if it was green he wouldn't even look at it. Texture was another thing stopped him. I just persevered but it was really frustrating

Then one day when he was maybe 5ish we went grocery shopping and I let the kids loose in the fruit and vege and said pick something and we will take it home and try it. We ended up with dragonfruit if I recall lol. Everybody hated it but everybody tried it and we did the same thing every week. It sort of got the message across that it's okay not to like things, but you have to taste it to find out how it tastes and you won't die if you do lol and sometimes new things turn out to be delicious. It kinda got better from there. By the time he was ten he was my best eater. He would try anything. We even went out for dinner and he tried the oysters much to my girls disgust lol

My youngest started off a good eater then got picky around school age. By then I decided she could live with a night or two hungry so if she didn't like what we were having she went without or was allowed fruit to replace it. Most nights she ate what we did, sometimes she ate a banana instead. Didn't hurt her and like my son it eventually got better and now at 13 she eats everything except lasagna lol. That has been such a hate for so long she gets something else those nights cause I know it's not just being picky and difficult anymore

So yeah, takes a while but if you persevere there is light at the end of the tunnel

 

[Alice28]

@appps

My son does the "they are touching!" Thing too! Lmao! Once he got pizza at Costco and I told him he had to eat it in the car because we had more places we had to go. He buckled up and I handed him the pizza with the hand I was using to eat my hotdog with sour kraut on it. He FLIPPED out! He told me the smell molecules can move around and now there are smell molecules on his pizza.... he was four. He wouldn't stop freaking out, so I gave his pizza to a homeless man sitting at the edge of the parking lot. This didn't help the freak out, but I told him if he acts like that he doesn't deserve a special lunch. He can be ridiculous.

I will say, it's so much better now that he is five. I still struggle with getting him to eat and try things, but it's way easier then it use to be. I just tell him "if you want ......, you need to try ....." And i just leave it at that. Period. If he tries to argue, I just tell him "you know the rules, it's your choice" and ignore him. Lots of times I try to make a few different things I would like him to try and let him choose the one he is willing to try that day so he feels like he has power over it. This would never have worked at three or two. He is so stubborn, but at five he has been more willing to compromise and reason with. It's a struggle, but it's getting better. I just have to remind myself to stay calm.

Also, my friends all loved the "smell molecule" story

 

[tjo804]

Mine will all still come in the kitchen and make a PBJ so now I just make what I want to eat.

 

[Jesusfreak101]

she poured pepper all over her lunch (wbat was left) so i threw it away she threw a fit she has strawberries and pretzals on a nother plate but didnt want that but earlier didnt want her lunch i feel insane today. What is with them putting their face in your face and the constant touching... I so need sleep and space

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[Jesusfreak101]

Lol the molcules smell is to funny. And oh lord if thats what i am infor i am hiding lol. However atleast she mibds unlike her cousins who deliberatly disobey... They drove me batty when they were over but i think its mostly the lack of sleep.