This morning at the grocery store I had an experience that removed any question about my kids being . . . um . . . unconventional when it comes to food preferences. We've all heard children at the store crying for cookies, candy--maybe even chips, but how many toddlers have you heard going into hysterics because they weren't allowed to have a mushroom?
I had run into Superstore to buy only a few items that I needed to make a new recipe, and when we were in the produce section Benjamin spotted the mushrooms and said, "MUSHROOMS!!!!" Janae quickly joined in with "uh-shooms," and--being the softy that I am--I said, "Okay, we'll get a few mushrooms, and you can have them with lunch." I'm sure even THAT seems weird to most of you. But it got worse, as I've already mentioned.
By the time we were in line at the check-out, Janae was literally screaming, crying, and trying to climb out of the shopping cart because she wanted a mushroom. I got a few strange looks from other shoppers as I repeated things like "You can have a mushroom when we get home" and "We have to wash the mushrooms before we eat them." These are the same children who won't eat kid favorites like grapes, Kraft dinner, or McDonalds hamburgers! And yes, when we did get home, the two of them happily ate their "special treat."
(I still can't put new pictures onto my computer, so the picture at the top of this post shows Ben and Janae drinking yogurt drinks--one of their other favorites!)
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Now I know what to stock up on for times when they won't eat what I cook when you come over for dinner--Pizza, hot dogs and mushrooms!!
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