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I was watching a show today in which David Burtka (Neil Patrick Harris' husband) was saying that since he is a gourmet cook, their 4 year old twins eat everything and have very mature taste in foods. He mentioned they like duck liver pate, and oysters.
When my kids were small, I was not a gourmet cook, but they did eat whatever I made, with a very few exceptions.
Do you have an "eat it and like it" policy?
I don't believe they were really giving advice...just talking about their children. They do seem like great parents though so what's the issue?
You know I am for same sex families, and have been good friends with same sex parents. But I don't like this couple. They are trying too hard to appear perfect. Who can blame them? With all they are up against. But I find them annoying and don't believe them.
In my world, pate and squid are "weird" foods, meaning they are nowhere near our regular menu and most likely way outside our budget. I don't tell my kids they are weird and icky or whatever. They're not on our radar at all.
Besides a couple of years around 6-8 years old for my older son, both of my kids weren't afraid to try new things, though none of that was what I would call exotic either. Neither of them ever stuck with mac-n-cheese (no one actually likes it in my family) and chicken nuggets or hot dogs.
The octopus eyeballs and squirrel livers were my attempt at humorous extreme examples. Sorry no one seemed to get that.
Squid is pretty nasty anyway, such a rubbery texture. But pate has always been a normal food in my world, kinda weird to think that it would be considered weird or adventurous, or expensive (its cheap really). I loved pate and cucumber sandwiches as a kid - I recommend them.
Cut the squid into pieces like onion rings, and fry them like onion rings, or tempura whatever. They're way better than most people think. The rubbery texture is when you cook it wrong.
I don't believe in 'sophisticated' palates. I just believe food is food and there's nothing particularly impressive in trying foods and eating foods from all over the world. The people there eat it, don't they?
Kids should be given a wide variety of well-prepared food.
Kid's lucky his dad is a chef.
Cut the squid into pieces like onion rings, and fry them like onion rings, or tempura whatever. They're way better than most people think. The rubbery texture is when you cook it wrong.
There is am lot of badly cook squid / calamari out there...but I agreee...cooked as it should be it's not rubbery at sll.
In our home you ate what was put on the table or you did not eat.
We were not allowed to be picky about food.
In our house too. But it isn't as though we were forced to eat anything, there were never any battles, we were just hungry, it was dinnertime, and we ate whatever had been cooked.
I don't get why things have changed so much in the past generation. Especially when so many mothers work outside the home, and time to fix meals is more limited, it seems like there should be less catering to individual whims than before.
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