Does baby poop taste salty..

Just Eat It! is the Parent Blogger Network topic this week as PBN has teamed up with Deceptively Delicious to promote Jessica Seinfield’s new cookbook.  (Is Jessica related to Jerry?)  Just Eat It is such an easy topic for me I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to win a $250 Williams Sonoma gift certificate.  Of course buying something at WS sounds like such work to me. Do you ever get overwhelming at WS?  I’m so over the over-do that any type of purchasing experience that forces me to buy products that then requires me to plan an event is out of the question. My new motto is not to host parties and holidays but to seek invitations to other people’s houses.

Regarding the Just Eat It topic, nothing sums up the eating philosophy in my house better than just eat it. Making dinner is work, and if I go to the trouble of making something – anything – it must be eaten.  Simple. If my children were meant to be picky eaters they picked the wrong womb to inhabit.  At our happy abode dinner is on the table every night (except Thursday soccer night) at 5:30 p.m.  If a child dares to say, “Ooooo…What is that? I don’t like that. That makes me sick” that child is asked to leave the table and go to his or her room.  Each of my children have chosen to test this experience just one time and apparently eating whatever is served them is better than being exiled and sleeping with an empty stomach.

The other night we were having Turkish Bride soup, which mostly consisted of bulgur wheat and red lentils. Honestly, it looked like a pot full of baby shit. Specifically, it resembled a breast fed baby’s shit because it was yellowish-brown, lumpy and runny. Stirring the pot it occurred to me that I might not be able to choke it down. My husband dumped in some frozen green peas “for color”.  My kids eat most food with some encouragement, but this witches brew was pushing the limit.

Sitting down to the hearty bowl of dung (with crusty bread!) the children stared at the concoction in quiet horror. They truly looked scared and confused as if they were wondering if the contents of the bowl were actually the guts of a rat squeezed into a pretty white bowl. 

“Kids, I know this looks nasty, and it will probably taste nasty, but it’s what we’re having for dinner. The ingredients are healthy but it might taste crappy.  Let’s just eat it and be done with it.” 

Hesitantly, we tried the hot gruel and surprisingly, the soup was really good and even got compliments from both children.  Of course, nobody has begged to have it again, but it was fine. It was one of about 80 meals we ate this month. Sometimes dinner isn’t that good, but it’s food and it’s better than starving.

P.S. How's this for a random photo? Looking for a soup photo this photo showed under the search words "mix of action".  Look at the soldiers' faces. LOL.

Comments

[Novembrance]

Here's a common dinner conversation at our house:

Random Kid: I don't like this.

One of Two Parents: You don't have to like it. You just have to eat it.

[Karen]

Same rule at our house! And the time I made this green soup from French women arent fat or whatever my daughter TOTALLY balked; then tried it; and LOVED IT.. She said.. " Whats in this mom?" I refused to answer! hahahaha! Namely it was everything on the planet she hated! hehehehehe!

[Avery]

I make my son (who is extremely picky) try at least a little of everything on his plate before he can be excused. Trying new things makes him physically ill (it's a mental block), so even as he's putting it in his mouth and valiantly trying to please me, he's gagging the whole time.

"Mmm," gag, "it's good," gag. "Thanks," gag, "Mom." Gag.

Poor guy.

[hokgardner]

BOth girls are learning to eat what is put on the table. One night last week I sent Lily to her room for protesting about quiche - I mean really, it's eggs, milk and cheese. She stayed in her room for about three minutes and came back out to announce, "I just remembered that I like quiche." The prospect of going to bed hungry was just too much for her little brain.

[Holmes]

That photo is just dying for a caption or six.