As I lift my eyes from my own bowl of food that I’m hungrily downing, I can tell Hannah doesn’t want to even try her dinner. She gets two options on her plate, one of which she has to eat all of. After an initial screaming session which included sitting at the table until bedtime, since we introduced the choose one and eat it all practice, she’s been eating like a champion. But I can tell she is struggling with these particular options; a very small amount of mustard chicken, or half of a prawn gyoza. There is also the optional brown rice.
“You know, I didn’t used to like peas, but Daddy and I decided that I should eat vegetables to be a good example to you guys.” I tell Hannah as she stares at her dinner in disgust. “So you know what I did?”
“What?” She asks me.
“I used to put some peas in my mouth, then drink something nice straight away to wash down the peas and not taste them much.”
A look of concentration crosses her face as she digests what I’ve just told her.
“And after a while, I didn’t mind eating peas. I actually like them now.”
“How about you get your chocolate milk out of the fridge, and you can try it too?”
She looks excited and runs to the fridge. She doesn’t usually get chocolate milk, but I got two single serves in a show bag at the Easter show.
She takes a bite of her dinner and then washes it straight down with chocolate milk.
My bite, drink, swallow trick works and she starts eating her dinner.
“What stuff do you still don’t like?” She asks me.
“Hmm…Well, I still don’t like beef.” I tell her.
“So you could do this with beef.” She says matter of fact whilst looking me straight in the eyes.
Oh snap.
I can’t tell her that I won’t eat it, whilst I’m sitting next to her, making her eat a dinner she really doesn’t like. “Yes, when we have beef, I can take bites and wash it down with something yummy. We can do it together.”
She looks at me and smiles, happy in the knowledge that I will have to gag down my dinner too.
Remind me not to make beef for a very long time.
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