We have a lot of similarities: I do a big meal to start and end the day and smaller ones in the middle. Similar reasons as you mention, and I also like the idea of starting the day off right and making up for mistakes at the end of the day. If I undereat at a meal in the middle of the day, I just mentally tack on to my end of day meal to make up for it. “Alright, we’re have 2 whole eggs now instead of 1. Alright, we’re adding another stalk of celery with some nuts n more tonight”, etc etc.
I totally get the meal with the little one thing. Having breakfast with my kiddo whenever possible is a BIG deal for me. I’ve raced home from night shifts and slapped some eggs and meat together just to be able to sit down at the table while my kid is in the middle of a bowl of Frosted Flakes and be able to eat next to them. I’m sure one day they’ll look back and realize how special it all was.
Rice and beans need no explanation or apology: it’s the original superfood and delicious.
Exactly. It’s so much less stress to “feast” when there’s time, and “famine” when there isn’t.
I hope so too. These meals are also my sneaky time to try and get my kid to eat foods he wouldn’t normally want. He’s weird about meat right now (except ham and stuff like chicken nuggets and pepperoni), but as an example: he was refusing to eat chicken that we’d picked off the bone. Saw me eating a drumstick, gestured he wanted some, ate 2 drumsticks. Same food, he just saw me doing it and thought it looked cool.
Definitely a lot of “monkey see-monkey do”. My kid is similar with meats: likes the processed stuff, doesn’t care for the “real” stuff. I do get it though: you have to LEARN how to eat a steak. A burger or a hot dog just falls apart as you chew it, but unprocessed meat needs some doing.
We put off feeding these to our kids as long as possible because we know they’re tasty. We figured our kids didn’t know what they were missing.
I never thought of this and learned or at least experienced it the hard way. I’d give my son some good red meat (t-bone, roast, ribeye) and he’d waste it. He appeared to be eating it, but next thing you know, he’s got a golf ball size chunk of meat stashed in his cheek. He just chewed it. By then it was too big to swallow so he’d gag and choke if he tried. He ultimately just ended up spitting it out and wasting it. It irritated me that he wasted good meat LOL. I learned just to not give him red meat for awhile.
To offer a new perspective as someone who’s still pretty young and remembers my dad eating stuff, I would try pretty much anything he would, he made eating odd stuff like pâté or sardines look good which definitely impacted how I’ve continued to try food.
They’re definitely not a central part of his diet, which is good. He still likes other proteins like fish, eggs and yogurt. At this point I just have to keep reminding myself that he’s not even 2, and it’s okay that he’s a little picky. He still eats plenty of other good foods, and he’s growing like a weed so I don’t need to be too worried.
Slight amendment to the last 5km time; I forgot to add the seconds, which makes this a 4-second improvement. I hit a sudden and massive wall at about the halfway point, and by the 3/4 mark my body was screaming for me to stop. The last few hundred meters were agony, especially since I try to push hard at that point.
All that aside, I love running in the rain. As a Pacific Northwest coast boy, rain is in my blood. Since moving, I’ve really missed the rain, so this was very welcome.
My son has proven to be a picky eater and we just work around it. He’s almost five and has just now started eating green things on purpose. We’d try to sneak them into other foods (like throwing a couple spinach leaves into a wrap). My wife just made him green smoothies - almond milk, banana, and spinach or spirulina (ground up seaweed). The banana added enough sweetness that he’d crush that and not realize he was getting greens.
When I was little , There was a time when I’d only eat one vegetable- Chinese water spinach. My parents got my to eat others by telling me they other veggies were relatives of the water spinach
Never had a problem with meat though. I think it might pay off to be a good cook as a parent. My grandma used to live with us and she’s an amazing cook. We’d regularly have junk food in the house or my parents would offer to get fast food, but my brother and I would often refuse bc grandma’s was better.
Of course, the dishes weren’t exactly the healthiest, but much healthier than frozen processed crap
Even outside of parenting, being a good cook pays off for adherence imo. I’m by no means a great, but I can cook well enough for myself and my family. I find that I’m not that tempted to buy crap because I realize that I could probably make something myself that’s similarly good, if not better, at a lower price and much healthier
Yeah, this is what I meant when I wrote “monkey see monkey do”. You can definitely influence it by modeling it. It’s why I try to keep my eating habits normal around my kid. I’d love to do something like the Apex Predator Diet or Warrior Diet, but I don’t want my kid seeing that and thinking it to be normal.
Full concur. It’s a great sensation. Also dig getting back, taking off the sweats, and having them just flop onto the floor heavy with rain.
This is my viewpoint on meat, but I’m pretty lazy with the side dishes. There’s only one place I’ll order a burger, and no places where I’ll order a steak.
To an extent, yes. With older kids, absolutely. I used to HATE cabbage rolls as a kid because my only experience was the gross, slimy mess my dad called “cabbage rolls”. Then I had properly made cabbage rolls and my life was changed.
With babies/toddlers? Doesn’t fucking matter. They’re as close to running on instinct as humanity gets, and if somethings looks, smells or has a weird texture, you’re not convincing them to eat it.
Absolutely. If what you’re making tastes good, you’re way more likely to keep repeating it.
Except me. I despise cooking with such a passion that everything I make is done to prioritize speed and ease of prep, and nutritional content. Taste is a distant second, because hot sauce, BBQ sauce and salt fix everything.
I agree. For me, I tend to prioritize texture over taste and most of the stuff I cook for myself for every day meals would taste crap by most ppl’s standards. With that said, the times I did decide to eat/order out (ie roast chicken, fish at a restaurant) in the past year, I’ve been sorely disappointed. In shanghai though, that’s different
THere’s a reason why the staff at the dining hall kept a bottle of mustard just for me
