I've often read that if you have a child that is a picky eater one trick to try to get them to expand their palate is to have them help make the meal. Now, my kids aren't especially picky, but there are some things that defy logic as to why they have convinced themselves they won't eat them. Grace is that way with sauces/dressing/condiments/gravy (even though everyone else in our family RAVES about my cream gravy for the pork chops the girl still won't even taste it). And Alex is that way with soup. Doesn't matter what kind of soup - he will flat out tell you "Mommy, you know I don't like soup!" Kind of a drag as this weather has gotten colder where soup would be welcome.
So yesterday I decided to take out some of the leftover turkey and make a simple soup with it (from a Cooking Light recipe found here). And I got Alex to help. After I did all the chopping he sauteed the veggies in the pan, added the other ingredients, helped set the kitchen timer, stirred whenever I saw he was getting restless, and helped peel clementines and bananas for the accompanying fruit salad.
And don't you know that boy ate every single bit of soup I put in his bowl AND drank every last bit of broth. I was floored.
Guess it's time for me to have Grace help me make my pork chops and gravy.
2 comments:
Gabriel was helping me almost every night, but he would still only take a bite or two then say he was done. Now I think he's given up because there was so little I could have him help with some nights. He's still too little to be standing over the hot pans. But I hope he'll still keep trying because I love having him in the kitchen with me!
Yeah, that won't work.
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