Who are you, and what have you done with my carnivore daughter?
Getting Bobbin to eat meat has never been a problem. From hot dogs to taco meat by the spoonful, from meatloaf (meatballs, meatfillintheblank) to steak-on-a-stick (the sophisticates among us will usually refer to these as "kabobs"), meat has never been a problem.
I do have to say that fruit likewise has been a hit. any kind of fruit. As long as it comes from a tree or a bush, she eats it. Bananas, pears, apples, peaches, plums, kiwis, melon of every variety, cherries, oranges, pineapple, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries. There isn't a fruit or berry she has met that she hasn't loved.
We've been fortunate that she hasn't developed much of a sweet tooth. Her choice, not ours. We offer the stuff because part of my philosophy has been that if it's forbidden it becomes wanted and there's no harm in tasting and sampling. She won't drink juice or soda, eat chocolate or candy of any kind. Even cookies and cake only get a couple of nibbles. Her one exception has been strawberry ice cream. The kid would eat an entire quart if left to her own devices.
Yup. Getting her to eat meat and fruit is like giving candy to any other child. Easy as pie (which she also doesn't eat). Veggies, however, have been a different story.
She'll eat veggies at school for lunch. Cooked carrots, green beans, corn and peas. She always comes home with an "ate all her food" circled on her daily report and the list of veggies that she consumed written next to it. At home we've been able to get her to eat corn on the cob, but absolutely nothing else with any ease or regularity. Including corn off the cob because what's the fun in corn then?
Until recently. Despite the fact that I expect her to decline, I always continue to offer the veggies at every meal and I always have a bowl of fruit at the ready in case she declines. I know what you're thinking... she's holding out for the fruit. And I would have agreed with you. Except for tonight!
Tonight we had hamburgers and hot dogs and with it I served a bowl of cherries (pitted; have you ever used a cherry pitter? man they are fun), raw baby carrots, and peeled sliced cucumbers. She chowed down on carrot after carrot, cucumber slice after cucumber slice, leaving ample cherries for Tim and I to enjoy, and even left some of her hot dog. Bobbin NEVER leaves hot dog on her plate.
I think we're onto something.
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