Mealtime Madness

Why is it a kid can NEVER eat a sandwich like a normal human?
I have kids from 19 to 11 mos old and barring the older guys, the kids eat the sandwiches crazy, like, they eat the middles out, or pull it apart or maybe disect the thing first and rebuild it... ?? rocket science? No, just food, kids, eat it!

some kids have to make "sections" and put this food here, that food there and etc, eating out of each section... huh?? shovel it in already so I can get back to cleaning some other mess ya made...

Then I have Heaven... that child will eat anything that ain't moving... or too dead to stink...
When she finishes hers, she scouts out what others have left, to go scavenge their leftovers. - and she is the 3 yr old, micro-preemie that still weighs nothing and is the littlest thing in the house!!

And I've learned, if I ask what they want to eat, they take it as "Whatever you say, Mom will make" so then the fits come when I don't make everyone's individual meal... no, I'm not Burger King and you can't have your way, then again, I'm the dork that asked! - no more of that! "Hey Kids, today it's PBJ for lunch with chips!" (listen to whine and groan, but they eat it!, sorta, after the disection and creative food art)

I used to take a vote on what was for dinner, now I do like the school and post a weekly menu. I don't want to be insane because of picky kids!!!

Then there is Talon, God love him, he will not eat anything I serve unless it's a PBJ. He just does not want to eat anything else but that!! I stick to my guns for the most part, and tell him he still has to sit at the table and try it. he just won't sometimes. By evening before bed, I end up giving him a PBJ because I can't see letting him go to bed hungry.

*sigh*