LB food log for Sunday. Now with added emotions
Since part of what I want to write about longer term is emotions around children and food, I thought I would also log my emotions in italics (could also try to log his, but that's more conjectural and would take a lot longer)
Breakfast:
Half a slice of white bread with honey and butter
Water
Surprised he wasn't hungrier given that he'd had no tea.
Midmorning:
Most of a banana
Amused at him rejecting the bottom bruised bit 'because it might make me ill'.
Lunch:
Whole slice of white soya enriched bread (made with 1/6 soya flour. One of my many stealth nutrition strategies)
Apple juice
Frustrated at his non-consumption of any protein, including the mild cheddar specially purchased last night. Amused and frustrated at his assertion that he only eats that cheese at parties. So frustrated that I began to blackmail him into eating some cashews nuts (the protein he had selected) before I would give him more bread, but luckily I was restrained by D.
Midafternoon snack:
Few mouthfuls of birthday cake, saved from yesterday
I wasn't present for this, but amused and gratified to hear that he is eeking this out. He has totally got the idea of deferred gratification.
Tea:
1/2 slice of soya enriched bread with butter
Little bit of icing from birthday cake (one mouthful saved for tomorrow)
About 40ml of milk
Again, i wasn't present, which luckily means I didn't get wound up and turn into Parent I Do Not Want To Be around food
I'd call that a pretty rubbish day. I don't worry about the odd badly eating day (as indeed yesterday was, just not as bad as I was expecting it to be) but it's my sense that there are many more rubbish ones than good days that worries me. Which is one of the reasons I'm keeping a record.
Breakfast:
Half a slice of white bread with honey and butter
Water
Surprised he wasn't hungrier given that he'd had no tea.
Midmorning:
Most of a banana
Amused at him rejecting the bottom bruised bit 'because it might make me ill'.
Lunch:
Whole slice of white soya enriched bread (made with 1/6 soya flour. One of my many stealth nutrition strategies)
Apple juice
Frustrated at his non-consumption of any protein, including the mild cheddar specially purchased last night. Amused and frustrated at his assertion that he only eats that cheese at parties. So frustrated that I began to blackmail him into eating some cashews nuts (the protein he had selected) before I would give him more bread, but luckily I was restrained by D.
Midafternoon snack:
Few mouthfuls of birthday cake, saved from yesterday
I wasn't present for this, but amused and gratified to hear that he is eeking this out. He has totally got the idea of deferred gratification.
Tea:
1/2 slice of soya enriched bread with butter
Little bit of icing from birthday cake (one mouthful saved for tomorrow)
About 40ml of milk
Again, i wasn't present, which luckily means I didn't get wound up and turn into Parent I Do Not Want To Be around food
I'd call that a pretty rubbish day. I don't worry about the odd badly eating day (as indeed yesterday was, just not as bad as I was expecting it to be) but it's my sense that there are many more rubbish ones than good days that worries me. Which is one of the reasons I'm keeping a record.