Cooking for Kids | Family Friendly Meals | Cooking for a Family of 5
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Cooking can be a challenge when you are making meals for littles! I have picked up a few tips along the way of cooking for …
I truly enjoyed your video. This was my first time seeing you on YouTube. I am a plant-based granny. However, I have gotten so much inspiration from you and I certainly will enjoy veganizing your recipes. I will definitely try to anyway. God bless you and your family. You have such a calm, peaceful spirit. 🙏🏼❤️
the meals look delicious 😍
I never made a second meal for my son when he was growing up, either. He had to try a couple of bites to see if he liked it (or could at least eat it), but if he did that and really hated it, I didn't make him eat it. I let him fill up on whatever else we were eating with the meal (bread, veggies, fruit, whatever). The bonus was that he grew up liking pretty much everything except black olives and tomatoes. Thanks so much for the video – I just had sweet potatoes the other day with a little butter and brown sugar; they tasted like dessert, lol.
I never made a second meal for my kids either. We had a 3 bite rule. They had to have a “no thank you” 3 bites of whatever it was that they didn’t like. Even if they had had it before and didn’t like it, they had to take 3 no thank you bites. And they had to be real bites. Not barely anything on the fork bites. But 3 decent bite sizes tastes of whatever it was. My son was a super picky eater when he was younger. But he learned to like things he used to not like. He would claim he didn’t like something before he had even put a bite in his mouth. I was like, how in the world do you know you don’t like it when you haven’t even tried if? You hit it on the head when you said the looks scared him. It would look different t, or it was something new he had never tried, or it was something like wilted spinach that looks weird, and he would claim he didn’t like it. He is now a fabulous eater. He eats anything. Will try absolutely anything once and loves a very diverse pallet of foods. He even likes things I don’t like. lol. I’m so glad I pushed my kids to eat everything and anything they didn’t like. Because they both now will try anything once, have very diverse tastes, and eat a very wide variety of foods and flavors. They both have things they don’t care for, but over all they like most things. I just couldn’t imagine them being somewhere else with other people and not wanting to eat or at least try whatever was placed in front of them. I’d of dies had they been at a sleepover and claimed they didn’t like what the other mother had provided. I couldn’t imagine the rejection and offense she would take from them rejecting her food without even trying what was placed in front of them, or because they had tried a bite and bc it was fixed different than how I fixed it, they didn’t like it and wouldn’t eat it. I would have curled up and died. So I am beyond glad I dealt with the fights, the refusals and the attitude by demanding they push through instead of catering to them and them growing up only eating chicken nuggets, PB&J, and boxed Mac and cheese. People ruin their kids, in my opinion, by catering to their demands instead of demanding they try things and eat things they claim they don’t like!! Great job demanding your kids eat what is offered for dinner and not making second meals to cater to their lack of knowledge of different foods!