My child is a human. Like, I’m pretty freaking certain of that point. Yet she has this robotic ability to not. Like. ANY FOOD I TRY TO GIVE HER!!! I’m a decent cook. My husband is an amazing cook. We have delicious meals available. Will my child eat any of it? NO! We survived for a while on chicken nuggets and French fries, but lately she won’t even eat that. And she won’t tell us what she does want. At four years old, I feel like she should be able to tell us things she likes and doesn’t like, but she doesn’t provide any insight at all beyond snack food. I literally would purchase and feed her any real food she would eat if I just knew what it was! Every day the only way I can get her to eat real food is to bribe her with junk. And that always comes down to a serious negotiation of exactly how much real food is required to earn the junk food.
My child also has a weird thing about eating hot/warm food. Every morning for breakfast she eats a frozen pancake or waffle. She eats it frozen. She does not want them warmed up. The other day, we had cheese quesadillas. She didn’t eat them. The next day she went to town on them straight out of the refrigerator.
Today I almost lost my mind though. I’m trying to find anything that she will like to eat. I think grilled cheese. Who doesn’t love a good grilled cheese, right?
Me: I’m gonna make you a grilled cheese. You can help me cook it.
Em: I don’t want it cooked.
Me: It’s not a grilled cheese if it’s not cooked baby. That’s how you make a grilled cheese.
Em: I don’t want it warm.
Me: Ok, I’ll cook it for you and then put it in the refrigerator.
Em: No, I don’t want it cooked.
At this point I was done and made her an uncooked grilled cheese. Yup. Two pieces of bread, butter, cold cheese. And you know what? That little turd ate almost the entire damn thing! Last night we had to use all the positive psychological manipulation tactics we know to get her to eat some AMAZING steak. But here she is going to town on buttered bread and cheese. I’m done. 😂😂😂
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