While I sit here and eat my second meal of the day to be procured through a drive thru window, I've come to a decision! Tomorrow, I am taking a stand! I have never been a good cook. I don't have the patience or skills and I am very easily distracted by just about anything. My husband has always been the cook in the family. He loves to cook and he loves to experiment with food. His current job keeps him away a lot and even when he is home, he works late. And over the course of the last year or so while my daughter has been on solid foods, I have inadvertently cultivated a picky food monster! She flatly refuses to eat anything meat unless it's chicken tenders, fish sticks, hot dogs and occasionally lunch meat. She will eat vegetables a lot of the time, but lately she's been not the best about eating them either.
Tomorrow, I am stopping the diner like atmosphere in the house. I'm only making one meal and it's take it or leave it. My daughter is almost 2 and it's time that she learn to eat what is put in front of her or not eat. I know that this will not be an easy transition. It's completely demoralizing to work on a meal only to have it rejected and dumped on the floor. But in the long run, I hope it will get her back to her previous non picky self.
Now I just need to find recipes that are simple enough for me to cook them, healthy, and that are toddler friendly. We'll see how that goes!
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