...and shout out to my grandkids who came home from school and didn't want my lovingly home cooked spaghetti bol, because they'd had it for lunch at school. 🤬
Take a carton of it and mold it into a cake pan and cover it with cool whip and rainbow sprinkles and refreeze it now it’s ice cream cake it is different.
That is always the way of it. Just when you think you made a lunch they would eat at school and they do for a day or two and then one day it comes home untouched. Sigh.
This happens every month with my wife. Super into chicken patties and hash browns; I buy a hundred, she now only has an appetite for pizza. I buy a pallet of pizzas and now she only wants Chinese. I get a dozen cartons of Chinese food she can make without me and suddenly she craves tacos ha ha...
OMG this is so damn relatable as a parent. My daughter ate 15 mandarin oranges in 2 days. She asked for more, and I asked her point blank if she anticipated suddenly hating them in the next 24 hours.
Make them sign a contract where they agree that if they don’t eat their share of a product you bought in bulk, you will *never* buy it again, no matter how much they beg, until they are 18.
Never too early to start teaching children about contract law! (Just skip the “lacking legal capacity”part.)
Is that not the absolute truth with kids. So relatable!!! Here's the solve, invite their friend over and offer it all to them because your kid doesn't want it anymore. All of a sudden.....
Preach.
My favourite is during grocery shopping.
"Please can we have this? Please?"
"You're definitely going to eat it?"
"Definitely"
"You're sure?"
"Yes! Please can we get it, daddy."
Fast forward to the inevitable "I don't like this."
This is story of my life. My youngest is neuro spicy and very particular with food.. his recent passion was gingerbread men. They had to be from a particular baker in the village. They don’t always have them so I got loads, now I am informed., that “he’s sick of me always giving him the same thing”
It’s literally the reason we found out our turtle Felicia is a BIG fan of dried seaweed! 🥴 among other things I won’t name on Beyoncé’s internet. Wait about 9-15 months from now when they will loudly admonish you by saying how it’s their absolute favorite and you’re a bad dad for not getting it 🫶🏾
LOL this always happened to me too. Just when I thought, okay, we’ve had [x] to eat/drink/do for long enough now it makes sense to stock up on supplies/equipment/lesson punchcards…then and only then would my son lose interest immediately, entirely, and forever 😘
Have an ice cream party for friends and cousins! (w/other flavors too) with bananas for banana splits, hot fudge cherries whipped cream, and I will bet you…. One of your kids will eat some of the Oreo ice cream just from peer pressure!! (As in ”Your Dad is so cool to commit to Oreo Ice Cream!”)
It’s a wonderful hack. Onetime I couldn’t stop ordering the Cinnabons from Taco Bell so my boyfriend at the time bought 2 family packs and yeah. Suddenly I didn’t have the craving after that.
At least it won’t rot on your counter. 🙂 As someone still in their Oreo ice cream phase after 20+ years, I can’t relate to them, but I have had the same experience with my kids and bananas.
Kids be kids. 🤣 Years ago when we lived on a farm growing our own my kids decided they were eating too many strawberries, peaches, and watermelon. Like we would just let it rot in a field. They ate frozen blueberries that were for winter. 🤦♀️
I hear you can just put it in the freezer (check the cautions on the package first) to keep it from spoiling. Then you can store it 'til it looks like something that showed up when a glacier receded to where it hadn't been for 10,000 years.
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Nah, children are more rational
My guess is yours at least taste better going down.
PS - I don’t allow it in the house because it’s like crack. Once you start, there’s no stopping.
don't know how many times.......
Never too early to start teaching children about contract law! (Just skip the “lacking legal capacity”part.)
My favourite is during grocery shopping.
"Please can we have this? Please?"
"You're definitely going to eat it?"
"Definitely"
"You're sure?"
"Yes! Please can we get it, daddy."
Fast forward to the inevitable "I don't like this."