Triumph!

[herefox]

I remembered what it was that I had stuck in my head:

http://tomatonation.com/stories-true-and-otherwise/bad-food-for-thought/

Comments

[shalora]

Okay, and I SO TOTALLY AGREE with her. I will NEVER understand the parents who bow to the every culinary whim of their children. My parents had the EXACT same three-bite rule. On some occasions things were bent a bit - I didn't like my mom's fried rice (trust me, you wouldn't either, it has NOTHING to do with actual fried rice, which I adore) and so she'd dish me up a bit of plain rice after the rice had cooked and before she mutilated it - but that wasn't a special dish so much as something she was already cooking, just in transition. And on Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, and your birthday (not everyone's birthday, just yours), you could eat whatever you wanted and not eat whatever you wanted. But only on the day - on the days leading up and following, you ate what was served, like it or not. If you physically couldn't stomach it, that was one thing - but if you didn't like it, then you went hungry. And frankly, if I have kids, they get the same rule. You eat what the family eats, and you TRY it before you announce that you

[herefox]

My mom would occasionally cook us a hamburger or something instead of the main course. That was partially because as a kid and to a lesser extent now, I could NOT eat anything that had a lot of fat on it, it makes me gag texture wise. So when mom would make steak she'd often grill a hamburger or something for me because otherwise there'd be these huge hunks of meat wasted where I'd cut around the fat to avoid even a hint of it *grin* So mostly she was just saving money and wasted food, much to the dog's disappointment.

On the whole though mom didn't serve many of the foods I revile terribly often so it didn't come up...every now and then there'd be fish and I'd sort of go hungry on those days after nibbling a bit :-)

[shalora]

Yeah, if there are actual physical issues (gag reflex and so forth), I can totally appreciate that. It's the ones who just have to whine and get their food whisked away and an entirely different meal prepared, after the main meal is done, so now Mom is eating cold food... I just do NOT get that. And then we wonder why these kids turn out to be entitled brats; parents who bend that much over food tend to bend that much over everything else. And that's what really gets to me. Kids need limits, end of story. Those limits shouldn't be absolute all of the time - no point forcing the kid to eat steak if he's just going to waste most of it or throw it up because of a true physical gag reflex issue, but that's different than randomly letting them dictate everything.

Wow, I'm rambling badly today. You get the point, anyway. Shutting up now. :)