Linked this on another thread, but repetition is a good thing with stuff like this.
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Wow…
… you know, you could monetize that.
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Thanks. We did the best we could. Same deal for processed- sometimes those pouches were what we could do. No refined sugar until a year old, no added sugar to any food. She doesn’t do juice except lemonade when we are out. We wouldn’t have lasted until 3- she goes to day care and, while they are pretty healthy, there are things like graham crackers and the occasional cupcake for people’s birthdays. We didn’t want to make sugar a forbidden thing- so she gets one sweet thing a week. At least for now. When she gets older all bets are off.
My biggest hope at this point is that she’s 2.5. She’ll get more experimental, she eats a variety of foods at school, and her father is a really good cook. She’ll come around eventually. I think 
I do wonder if breastfeeding would have helped- I’ve heard the milk tastes different depending on what the mom ate. That wasn’t in the cards for us though.
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The first lesson of childhood - “Buyer Beware”.
Yeah, the new one only made it to about 1 and a half between family and daycare. For better or worse, the twins didn’t have family around to break the rules like he does.
Breastfeeding is crazy hard. Getting them to latch is the least natural natural thing. My wife had trouble keeping up with the littlest’s supply so we supplemented. I’m sure there’s some, unquantifiable impact, but nothing as drastic as what they’re fed when they start eating independently and, maybe more importantly, what the rest of the family eats. We all sit down and eat together almost every meal. We aren’t too strict about things, but refined foods are probably less than 10% of our diets.
I think another important factor is how food makes you feel. If someone eats processed foods exclusively, they will never have the perspective to realize how awful it makes them feel. Going for a long hike and river swim makes whole foods really rewarding. If you’ve never experienced something similar, it would never trigger any pleasure or reward feelings and would just be a chore.
Even if you don’t see an immediate payoff and she puts up a fight her entire childhood, she will certainly be a better adult with better habits. A big part of defiance is the desire for autonomy. Once you actually achieve complete autonomy, all of the strictures placed on you in childhood start to make a lot more sense.
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It depends on the form of sugar.
Being a child in countryside meant that we had some plants in the garden and also a chicken coop. I absolutely like fruit, and harvested blackberries, wild cherries and chestnuts in the woods.
One thing I don’t understand is the kid menu that a lot of restaurants have, that isn’t half dish, but a bland and in my opinion less appetizing choice.
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Absolutely. I’m sometimes flabbergasted at the lack of cynicism, lack of ability to tune out advertising, the inclusion of emotions in matters of commerce. The more the seller is smiling the warm fuzzies at you the more they’re lying.
I think there are a lot of people who are somehow under the impressions that sweet = unhealthy and savoury = healthy.
roast stings
Tastes great on hamberders!
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May we add to the list ‘Magic snakes’ indoor ‘fireworks’? 4 year old me did indeed build a little house for my soon-to-arrive reptilian pals. I can still taste the disappointment to this day…
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Yeah, I meant refined sugar products. Fruits are a great way to supply nutrients and fiber. However, I put juice in that same category; it’s just fruit flavored sugar water.
ETA: In fact, my son just ate three strawberries as an after-lunch treat. Right out of the garden!
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“Salad frosting” as a condiment name is only slightly less appetizing than “salad cream”…
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You leave Santa out of this!!! 
@cannibalpeas Isn’t it dangerous to pick wild produce in your garden, Mr Cannibalpeas?
I think ‘Salad frosting’ is actually a more honest name than ranch dressing. If you consider the sugar content of ranch dressing.
I suspect putting ranch dressing on your salad (especially from those bottles designed for squirting out a bit more than planned) more or less negates the health benefits of eating salad.
We grew them. Or did I just miss something, there?
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Sorry, I just imagined the garden of Cannibalpeas being something like the horticultural version of the Island of Dr Moreau. Full of man-eating plants.
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We’re working on it, but they’re perennials and take quite a few years to establish roots and mandibles.
My wife, on the other hand…
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If you are a parent that has to resort to this product… you’ve failed, the kids have won.
Grow a spine, tell them they’ll friggen eat what you set in front of them or they can go to bed hungry.
Literally the best PB I’ve had is what I get at my farmer’s market… which is peanuts put into a grinder that makes them into peanut butter… I can’t eat peanut butter out of a jar any more, even the natural stuff.
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