The New Trend: Food Sucks

The next time some smug parent looks at me and says, “Oh, it’s just a phase . . . soon he’ll be eating everything in sight!” I’m going to take the largest tree branch I can find and smack them in the face.

Just three short months ago, he did eat everything in sight. Parents take note: he even ate things that were green! Because I like to nit-pick, I’m also counting peas inserted through his nose and accidentally swallowed as “eaten”, because they were digested, they just took an alternate route.

At this point, however, I’m seriously wondering how a child can survive on peanut butter and jelly, ham and cheese, and mandarin oranges. Throw in an occasional banana or yogurt and that is Daschel’s diet. Oh, and Ovaltine.

The pediatrician says there’s nothing to be worried about, every other parent I talk to says there is nothing to be worried about, and my mother says there is nothing to worry about, but they all have to be wrong because I am FLIPPING out and clearly I am the most level-headed of all of them.

Your mother-in-law also says there is nothing to be worried about. And, you got him to eat PBJ and cheese???? Uncle Danny at his age would have only eaten the fruit, yogurt and maybe the ham…

Robin

What changed? My mom says that I also ate a lot as a kid but then, one day, just stopped and began my 20 year long dedication to only a few fruits, meat and grease. It was only in college that I learned to eat veggies again, and I’m alright! I know there are tons of way of disguising veggies into his food. For example, making carrot cakes (with chocolate icing.)

By the way, how does tv in germany compare with tv in america in terms of food ads targeted at children?

I LOVE PB&J’S!!

please. my son lives on chicken nuggets…