Apparently, I’ve got this parenting thing all wrong.
If only I’d have bought a food mill, my children’s palates would be significantly more well-rounded.
What’s that? You didn’t buy one either?
Shame on us. Don’t you realize that it wasn’t enough to blindly and zealously follow What to Expect When You’re Expecting? It wasn’t enough to track, on the side of my refrigerator, every single protein and green veggie I ate for nine months. Nope, also not enough to abstain from a lovely glass of red wine or a seductively cold diet pepsi for the entire pregnancy. Oh, yes, and for that entire next year of nursing.
No, friends, my efforts were not enough. The proof is easy to find. Instead of longing for the “lentils milled with caramelized onions and wilted arugula,” that Mr. Dixon’s baby enjoys, my children’s food of choice is pizza, followed closely by cold cereal.
This is absolute truth, I promise, despite my efforts to fortify my babies with whole wheat pancakes made with apple juice in their early days. (Oh yes, it’s true. My girlfriend Janet can vouch: eleven years later she’s still mocking those pancakes!).
If only I’d bought the food mill, they’d be so much more advanced.
But what will Mr. Dixon’s kids eat on Friday nights in college? Arugula? Good luck with that. I can rest easy knowing my boys will easily find their food of choice.
He He…I love the pancake story. I still make pancakes like this…with buckwheat flour and the like. Even with beets one time…pink pancakes! I get scoffed at by the hubby often 🙂 Don’t feel bad, I didn’t have the food mill either…
I did buy one of those food squashy things but gave up too early in the game. I liked those cute little, easy little Gerber jars too much to sweat over the cooking and the squashing and the churning.
I’ve got one who loves veggies, hates meat. One loves meat, hates veggies. And one who thinks Ramen noodles is its own food group.
LOL – I had good intentions when my first child was born, but they never really panned out. She turned out alright, I think, at least so far!
I have a food mill but I didn’t buy it. A friend I met when our first-borns were babies gave it to me because she was given two. I used it to grind up bananas mostly. I wonder where I put that thing?