Cooking new and different foods will often send kids into a state of horror. They want the usual, the normal, the familiar.
Donnie, while a great husband, awesome provider, fun dad, is not a great help around the house. Sure he can fix about anything (especially my computer!) and is pretty awesome at McGuiver-ing things, too. However, his help in the morning is not so "helpful." He does go around and wake all the children for me. They actually get out of bed so he will stop annoying them with his sing-songing and pestering.
Here is our typical Sunday morning:
Donnie and I get up and I start getting ready. One of us wakes the children the first time. Donnie lays back down. Or gets on the computer. I wake children up again. I keep getting ready. He yells at kids to get moving a few times.
It is time to leave. I run around trying to get the little two fed and dressed and yell at the older kids to find their shoes and brush their hair. Donnie keeps doing what he was doing.
One minute after we were supposed to leave Donnie starts getting dressed. (to be fair, he learned this from his father, who did the same thing, lol, he is a good student)
Now, it is getting a little better. He is getting dressed and leaving the house some mornings now. I am still left with the kids myself.
So this past Sunday I got him to cook breakfast. He wasn't thrilled, but I knew that if he were cooking they would eat and I could push the rest along better.
It worked out really well!
However, in order to horrify your children, you have to be a creative cook. Donnie frequently makes weird foods. Sunday he made egg bread. I didn't know either, don't worry about it. He cuts a hole in the middle of a piece of bread and fries and egg in it. Oh, the horror at the name egg bread!
Hope-Anne wanted nothing to do with it! Eww! Then she found out what it was, and it was cool.
Donnie also makes milk toast. He pours milk and cinnamon over a piece of toast. Gross! I have been informed by Donnie that it is not cinnamon, but syrup and milk. Still, GROSS!
The kids are horrified when I hide spinach in their meals. I like to add it to meatloaf and pizza. They can't taste it. (Ok, that one time when I added a LOT to a little meat loaf, it was a bit much)
Do you have weird ways of preparing foods that freak the kids out?
November 10, 2008
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7 people think my kids are qtpies:
milktoast is NOT milk and ciniman!! that's gross!! ;P
It's milk and SYRUP! :)
mmmmmmm
-dh
Ok, milk toast just sounds icky no matter how it's prepared! Eww!!!
My kids are constantly on the lookout for weirdness in my spaghetti sauce ever since I made up a yummy homemade batch that they devoured...and later told them that I'd packed it with shredded carrots, minced mushrooms, and chopped spinach. Scarred my son for life!
I don't usually try to make weird foods, but my chili last night was a bit garlick-y. I had inadvertently purchased the Hunts "roasted garlic" flavor diced tomatoes. I keep forgetting that they come in so many different flavors now! Oh well, Molly wasn't too keen on it, but Ray loved it. Go figure. He ate it ALL, so I didn't even get to save a bowl for myself for lunch today. Anyway, my kids have always loved to eat "egg-in-a-hole".
I freak my mom out by inviting them over for chili then after they are done i tell her it was made with deer. She wont eat my chili anymore lol
OMG...milk toast..yuck! I wouldn't eat that either, whether it's with cinnamon or syrup! I was reading your post and cracking up!
Hugz,
Michele
I wouldn't eat the milk toast...it is all yours Donnie. The egg toast doesn't sound too bad just like an egg sandwich.
My MIL makes meatloaf with hard-boiled eggs in it...I guess it was to make it go further but still have protein. She also makes a bean casserole with all sorts of beans and noodles - the beans end up turning the noodles purple. I couldn't eat it anyway - only beans I eat are green. It looked nasty!!
Oh, he made an egg in the hole! I grew up eating that! You cut out a hole, fry and egg in the middle, then fry the "holed" bread! Yep, just toast and eggs. YUMMY!
I chop up tomatoes and onions into things now. Caleb is not a veggie eater, so I need to get more creative. I need to read that book...deceptively delicious~
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