Thursday, June 21, 2012

The Food Project

I love to cook, lunches, dinners, desserts, breakfast and snacks. Anything really but I have a issue with something. I have a big issue with people custom cooking. Cooking different meals for different people. Cooking chicken for the kids and steak for the Husband.... not in my house. I enjoy cooking but refuse to do this. if I have made salad and Lasagne we all eat salad and Lasagne. My son is only 1 but he knows the rules he will eat what I have given him he has given up trying to get me to give him other food. I may be a little strict and a little mean but I am not becoming a martyr to my family. I know families that cook special meals for their kids and separate meals for the adults and that's great for them but my kids are not getting special treatment. I will cook for that each of them like but not a meal for each person.
Of course there are some exceptions to this rule. My son cant eat steak so I will make him some eggs or some other protein that is quick and easy. My other exception is if you are sick I will cook a sicky meal, chicken soup or some other sicky meal. For safety reasons there are some other foods that get substitutions such as deli meats, I can not eat being pregnant so I will eat something else.
I don't have many foods that I don't eat and neither does my husband we are not fussy eaters and my baby is heading that way. He loves red meat, fish, chicken, salad, vegies, fruit. He eats very healthy, he will eat chickpeas, smoked salmon, and so many other out of the ordinary foods. I love that he enjoys his food and he has a broad palette. He will eat Thai food that is a little bit spicy, Indian food full of flavours, plain old fruit that is yummy and sweet, oh my he loves his fruit, he will eat my cupcakes but honestly he is not my biggest fan. 
So I will not custom make meals that is one of the many rules in my house. I have a lot of rules which makes for some difficult times but it makes for more good times because our house is kept clean our meal time is 90% pleasant, our sleeping time is deep and our fun time is more than fun and our house stays safe. So there are a lot of rules but it just means there is more fun when the rules are played by. I now realise I sound like a little hitler but I have a small child, I have another one on the way I need to know that when my hands are full  with little baby my big baby will listen. I know he will not always listen but I do know that a lot of the time he will and that is what will make my life easier and his life happier.    

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