I was invited to a party yesterday. Okay, so it was only a Twitter party; but, hey, I don't get out much. It's on Thursday from 1pm to 2pm and if I'm being honest, I shouldn't brag about the invitation because anyone can come. The party theme is getting kids to eat properly and all you have to do is use the hashtag #secret goodness and you're away. Oh, plus share a few of your concerns/tips in the nutrition department.
It's being sponsored by Kingsmill, which in my mind is synonymous with white sliced bread so doesn't exactly fit my eating agenda, but I guess those slices also come in brown. (I'll gloss over the fact that the loaves also come pumped with god knows what so they last forever in your bread bin.) And, let's face it, bread is pretty handy when you've got to feed a child in a hurry. Where would the world be without sandwiches?
Food is something I think about a lot, whether it's me or Louis who is doing the eating. Somehow we've lucked out because for a two year old, Louis is a pretty fantastic eater. (I've always figured it makes up for his ineptitude in the sleeping department.) Whether it's luck or by design, he's always had a pretty adventurous palate and a hearty appetite. Okay, so he likes cake and chocolate as much as the next toddler, even though I never intended to let him know what they were! But he'll chow down lentils for dinner and a pear for pudding happily enough.
He's always wanted what we're eating (which forces me to do a lot of surreptitious chocolate munching) and recently that means he's developing a taste for some serious heat. Spice heat, not temperature. It all started when we told him he wouldn't like Daddy J's stir fry because it was too spicy. "I like spicy," came the reply, so we let him at it. The upshot was lunch on Monday at a fabulous Japanese noodles house, Koya, in Soho. After polishing off the noodles I'd hived off from my dish for him, he demanded first DJ's curried version, and then more of mine, which by now came with additional zing. Did it put him off? On the contrary, and there's photographic evidence to prove it.
Which I think all goes to show that sometimes children might eat more than their parents anticipate, greens and all.
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If only. (insert big sigh here) Little L did exactly that - she used to ask for what we were having, but has now taken to wanting nothing but bland kids' food. Like pasta with tomato sauce or mashed potato or peas and fish fingers. I am trying to make everything fresh as, like you, I don't like the idea of pumping her with preservatives and whatever else is in highly processed foods. Let's hope she goes back to her former, more adventurous self.
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Mine used to eat whatever I put in front of them. Now they're older and I have to force feed veggies.
My kids were all about keeping all their food separate when they were young and prefered everything white and spongy but now they eat oysters sushi and kale, so it a matter of getting older for us...
Lovely blog and interesting pics! I want to eat this kind of noodles..omg..the boy can use chopsticks!
Hey the noodles in the picture looks too bland. Is that the curried version??
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