Kids are Weird....

[dramaphile]

So, yesterday I was cutting up onions and peppers for dinner and Nugget was whining at me, as per usual.  She kept reaching toward the onions I had next to my cutting board, so I gave her one to play with, figuring it would buy me a few minutes of quiet.  Next thing I knew, she had peeled it and took a bite.  Then she took another bite, and another.  My darling 17 month old decided raw onions are delicious and nibbled on that thing like an apple for the next 20 minutes until dinner was ready.  Toddlers are effing wierd, man.

What weird stuff do your kids do that makes you scratch your head?

[grumpycakes]

E used to eat raw onions all the time at that age! Now he whines about onions of all varieties. Annoying.

[Crisco Salad]

J used to do the raw onion thing too. He will also pick bell peppers out of our garden and eat them like apples.

Now he hates onions in all forms. But, he calls them minions which I think is hilarious.

[MapleMe]

M hates onions too, but I think that it's a textural thing because I can pulse them in the food processor (instead of slicing them) and then she'll eat them in dishes with no problem. FIL refuses to eat pieces of onions and I refuse to let my daughter become like that. I'd give up chocolate before I'd give up onions.

Along the food lines, I made spinach and mushroom lasagna for dinner yesterday. I pulsed the mushrooms and onions, but left the spinach in small pieces. She spit out a few spinach pieces, but would eat them if I airplaned them into her mouth. I hate spoon feeding with a strong resolve, but apparently my resolve can be beaten down if it gets my kid to knowingly eat spinach.

[dramaphile]

May 9, 2017 9:26:11 GMT -5 MapleMe said:

M hates onions too, but I think that it's a textural thing because I can pulse them in the food processor (instead of slicing them) and then she'll eat them in dishes with no problem. FIL refuses to eat pieces of onions and I refuse to let my daughter become like that. I'd give up chocolate before I'd give up onions.

Along the food lines, I made spinach and mushroom lasagna for dinner yesterday. I pulsed the mushrooms and onions, but left the spinach in small pieces. She spit out a few spinach pieces, but would eat them if I airplaned them into her mouth. I hate spoon feeding with a strong resolve, but apparently my resolve can be beaten down if it gets my kid to knowingly eat spinach.

I was totally your kid when I was little - onion flavor was good, actual onion pieces were the devil.  I would get french onion soup and spoon the broth part and leave a bowl full of onion pieces.  Drove my parents crazy, I'm sure.  I eventually got older and started enjoying cooked onions, now I am not a huge fan of raw onions, but will eat them in salsa or guacamole if they are not huge pieces.  

[brandiewine11]

May 9, 2017 9:26:11 GMT -5 MapleMe said:

M hates onions too, but I think that it's a textural thing because I can pulse them in the food processor (instead of slicing them) and then she'll eat them in dishes with no problem. FIL refuses to eat pieces of onions and I refuse to let my daughter become like that. I'd give up chocolate before I'd give up onions.

Along the food lines, I made spinach and mushroom lasagna for dinner yesterday. I pulsed the mushrooms and onions, but left the spinach in small pieces. She spit out a few spinach pieces, but would eat them if I airplaned them into her mouth. I hate spoon feeding with a strong resolve, but apparently my resolve can be beaten down if it gets my kid to knowingly eat spinach.

Haha!

I made lasagna with some spinach in it when @grumpycake's E was here last here. He ate an whole slice of lasagna, then asked for seconds. Only then did he notice the green stuff. And refused to eat another bite. I had to laugh because he'd been eating it all along. 

[MapleMe]

May 9, 2017 10:20:46 GMT -5 brandiewine11 said:

May 9, 2017 9:26:11 GMT -5 MapleMe said:

M hates onions too, but I think that it's a textural thing because I can pulse them in the food processor (instead of slicing them) and then she'll eat them in dishes with no problem. FIL refuses to eat pieces of onions and I refuse to let my daughter become like that. I'd give up chocolate before I'd give up onions.

Along the food lines, I made spinach and mushroom lasagna for dinner yesterday. I pulsed the mushrooms and onions, but left the spinach in small pieces. She spit out a few spinach pieces, but would eat them if I airplaned them into her mouth. I hate spoon feeding with a strong resolve, but apparently my resolve can be beaten down if it gets my kid to knowingly eat spinach.

Haha!

I made lasagna with some spinach in it when @grumpycake's E was here last here. He ate an whole slice of lasagna, then asked for seconds. Only then did he notice the green stuff. And refused to eat another bite. I had to laugh because he'd been eating it all along. 

When M first looked at her bowl of lasagna, she pushed it away and started crying that she didn't want it. Then we told her that it was pasta (which she had help me roll out), she suddenly stopped crying and started eating it. She loves mushrooms in things, so I figured that we would be good, even with the spinach (I subscribe to the "tiny tastes" method of food introduction - so even spitting out the part that she doesn't like is a win in my book). But then she was sad that her bowl didn't have more pasta in it and wanted C's. C was sucking all the spinach and sauce off the pasta and leaving pasta on her tray. So I figured that I would give C spoonfuls of M's spinach (C will feed herself just about anything off of a spoon). But then M wanted what C was having, so I fed her and she was all, "No, mama, do it like zoom! zoom!" So there I was airplaning spinach into my nearly 3 year old's mouth. I made sure to tell her with every spoonful that there was spinach in there to hopefully help her normalize spinach. Maybe. 

[MapleMe]

May 9, 2017 9:54:16 GMT -5 dramaphile said:

May 9, 2017 9:26:11 GMT -5 MapleMe said:

M hates onions too, but I think that it's a textural thing because I can pulse them in the food processor (instead of slicing them) and then she'll eat them in dishes with no problem. FIL refuses to eat pieces of onions and I refuse to let my daughter become like that. I'd give up chocolate before I'd give up onions.

Along the food lines, I made spinach and mushroom lasagna for dinner yesterday. I pulsed the mushrooms and onions, but left the spinach in small pieces. She spit out a few spinach pieces, but would eat them if I airplaned them into her mouth. I hate spoon feeding with a strong resolve, but apparently my resolve can be beaten down if it gets my kid to knowingly eat spinach.

I was totally your kid when I was little - onion flavor was good, actual onion pieces were the devil.  I would get french onion soup and spoon the broth part and leave a bowl full of onion pieces.  Drove my parents crazy, I'm sure.  I eventually got older and started enjoying cooked onions, now I am not a huge fan of raw onions, but will eat them in salsa or guacamole if they are not huge pieces.  

My FIL does that with french onion soup! And my MIL has to put onions in 1/2 of casseroles and such. I mean, I'll make a lot of food concessions for my kids, but onions are at the base of just about everything that we cook. I REALLY want her to eat onions happily.

[rainbowbridge14]

M won't eat raw onions but she loves lemon and lime slices. She loves chewing on the rinds after she eats all the fruit.

[grumpycakes]

May 9, 2017 10:20:46 GMT -5 brandiewine11 said:

May 9, 2017 9:26:11 GMT -5 MapleMe said:

M hates onions too, but I think that it's a textural thing because I can pulse them in the food processor (instead of slicing them) and then she'll eat them in dishes with no problem. FIL refuses to eat pieces of onions and I refuse to let my daughter become like that. I'd give up chocolate before I'd give up onions.

Along the food lines, I made spinach and mushroom lasagna for dinner yesterday. I pulsed the mushrooms and onions, but left the spinach in small pieces. She spit out a few spinach pieces, but would eat them if I airplaned them into her mouth. I hate spoon feeding with a strong resolve, but apparently my resolve can be beaten down if it gets my kid to knowingly eat spinach.

Haha!

I made lasagna with some spinach in it when @grumpycake's E was here last here. He ate an whole slice of lasagna, then asked for seconds. Only then did he notice the green stuff. And refused to eat another bite. I had to laugh because he'd been eating it all along. 

Such a punk. He's got a mental block on green stuff, too, but we're slowly overcoming it thanks to cilantro and cucumbers.

[dramaphile]

May 9, 2017 11:00:12 GMT -5 rainbowbridge14 said:

M won't eat raw onions but she loves lemon and lime slices. She loves chewing on the rinds after she eats all the fruit.

Nugget loves lemons and limes, too! She's a fiend for anything sour, especially lemons and pickles and olives. Went to an Italian restaurant the other week and she sat in my lap and picked the capers out of my chicken piccata and ate every one. She'll yell if I have a lemon slice and don't give her one (I try and hide them most of the time, since it's probably not great for her teeth).

[MapleMe]

I should try C on lemons. While she's fine with sweet stuff, she seems to have a preference for the salty and savory. She happily downs plain yogurt too. Maybe she would be happy with sour too.

[critter015]

My kids just simply refuse to eat anything that is green. They will not even taste things for me but they will for DH. O cracks us up because DH will ask him to try something and he'll proudly declare "green beans are my favorite" or whatever it is and then proceed to take a bite and will start gagging as he tries to prove to all of us that he actually likes whatever it is that he just put into his mouth.

[TJ]

P happily tries new things. She ate crawfish this weekend. She ate one, said "mmmmmm, I like it! I.... don't want anymore." Every time. She likes it but doesn't want more. Ok. At least she tries new things.

[rugger]

May 9, 2017 16:06:09 GMT -5 TJ said:

P happily tries new things. She ate crawfish this weekend. She ate one, said "mmmmmm, I like it! I.... don't want anymore." Every time. She likes it but doesn't want more. Ok. At least she tries new things.

Of course, A is the same as P. She tries it, then either makes a cringing face while saying "it's good" or does the "I DO like it, buuuut...I don't want to eat it"

[Stringy]

M wanted to help P with her bath. So she did. Then she got wet and proceeded to have a 20 minute meltdown because P splashed her and her pants were wet. Right.