I made a nice shepherd’s pie for dinner this evening. I should have known better.
Three of our four boys have trouble tolerating foods which are not separated by castle walls, the towers of which are manned by machine gun toting ninjas. If gravy dares to encroach on the green beans, it is blown sky high in a torrent of gunfire and farts in its general direction. Foods shouldn’t mix.
Shepherd’s Pie is a bit mixy.
Aidan, our oldest child and a girl, doesn’t mind mixing foods. In fact, she mixes them when logic stammers “no” again and again. So tonight’s dinner made perfect sense to her.
She thought she was being helpful when she told her brothers, “Hey, listen! Sometimes foods look really disgusting but they taste okay. Like this.”
Maybe I should start passing out blindfolds. Do they go on the fork side of the plate, or with the knife and spoon?
Farts!! Ha! 😀
Dylan is still completely put out if I even try to feed him something that touches. He won’t even put ketchup on a cheeseburger, or butter on toast! And – he’s going on 15. LOL! The other two boys (age 10 & 5) have grown out of that stage and moved on to something equally as appalling.
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Funny! Aidan’s comment is so perfect and, to the boys, probably encouraging! 😉
Some people use bandanas as napkins… muti-functional for you!
Steph
Oooh. Shepherd’s pie. Now I want some.
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My brother was the exact same way about food! What is it about little boys and dinnertime OCD tendencies?
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“when logic stammers “no†again and again.”
Forgot to say, I love this! Wish I had thought of it!!
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ROFL! Sounds like my house! Well with Katie and Journey anyway!
Ah the joys!
ROTFL at the imagery of offering blindfolds along with the silverware. I have my share of picky eaters too!
My dad used to dump garlic powder over everything on his plate (including things like, oh, applesauce) and then eat it all together.
My logic stammered “no” a lot back then…
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Run away! Run away!
Castle walls….ninjas…Dinner time at the Lifenut house sounds like a lot of fun.
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My favorite mix is mashed potatoes and apple sauce. The mashed are hot. The apple sauce is cold. Both have salt. A fork of mashed dipped into the apple sauce is in the hot-fudge-sunday family — you know, hot with cold.