It has been decided that whatever we eat at home, Caitlin will have to eat too. She won't get any special treatment such as a hotdog for her while we have ginataang kalabasa, for example.
It's not simple planning a weekly menu for the family and a separate dish for Caitlin would have been an added burden and expense. Besides, when Jay and I were young, we also ate whatever's on the table laid out for us. And that's also what our parents got.
The times have changed though and Jay and I have observed that some children nowadays get their special food which are usually processed and/or fried such as hotdog, bacon, chicken, pork chop or store-bought such as pizza.
Parents sometimes find themselves in a bind when, while busy preparing adult food, they forget to prepare a separate kiddie meal.
We pray that by introducing the same food that we eat to Caitlin this early, we won't have to deal with a picky eater later on. Sure, she can have fried chicken or breaded pork chop because we also eat those, but there won't be any hotdogs in the house since Jay doesn't like them. And bacon's a rarity, too. Soon, I might have to say goodbye to junkfood so that she won't get used to them.
So I'm pretty sure that in time, Caitlin will finally get to taste hotdog at a children's party and question why we don't have that at home. I hope that I can easily say, "Then why don't you stay with them if they'll have you so you can eat what they eat," and not have it backfire at me.
I trust that by that time, we have raised her well so we need not worry too much about the little stuff that we don't feed her.
On the bright side, she can have all the goodies that mommy bakes at home.
It's not simple planning a weekly menu for the family and a separate dish for Caitlin would have been an added burden and expense. Besides, when Jay and I were young, we also ate whatever's on the table laid out for us. And that's also what our parents got.
The times have changed though and Jay and I have observed that some children nowadays get their special food which are usually processed and/or fried such as hotdog, bacon, chicken, pork chop or store-bought such as pizza.
Parents sometimes find themselves in a bind when, while busy preparing adult food, they forget to prepare a separate kiddie meal.
We pray that by introducing the same food that we eat to Caitlin this early, we won't have to deal with a picky eater later on. Sure, she can have fried chicken or breaded pork chop because we also eat those, but there won't be any hotdogs in the house since Jay doesn't like them. And bacon's a rarity, too. Soon, I might have to say goodbye to junkfood so that she won't get used to them.
So I'm pretty sure that in time, Caitlin will finally get to taste hotdog at a children's party and question why we don't have that at home. I hope that I can easily say, "Then why don't you stay with them if they'll have you so you can eat what they eat," and not have it backfire at me.
I trust that by that time, we have raised her well so we need not worry too much about the little stuff that we don't feed her.
On the bright side, she can have all the goodies that mommy bakes at home.
Caitlin eating ampalaya.
Jay to me: Sinubukan mo lang na pakainin siya ng ampalaya?
Me: I wanted to have ampalaya with egg for lunch so she had that, too.
Here at dinner, she had ampalaya with beef.
I craved for indian mangoes one day and gave her some. Don't let her expression fool you. She liked it!
Kangkong baby.
Eat your greens.
- Mommy Smiley
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