Corban hums while he eats something he likes.*
Corban got a full dose of stubbornness from his mom and from his dad.
Corban has three favorite foods, chicken fingers, Gardetto’s, and popcorn.**
Some days he decides that if what I make for supper is not one of those foods, he isn’t interested and will try to refuse to eat. This forces us to get creative just to get him to take the first bite, upon which he realizes he likes the food and will eat, often requesting seconds.
Last night was a night he said he “WILL NOT EAT THE NOODLES!”
After further behaving in a rude manor and a timeout to calm down, he was invited to re-join us at the table.
Everyone told him how they liked the food, and he insisted he would just sit and watch.
Corban begged for buttered toast*** instead of the cheese burger macaroni shells.
Corban loves cheese burgers****, and he loves sauces*****.
We offered to let him eat his cheese burger mac with sauces, and he was sold! He was willing to try it, if he could have sauces.
Then Corban hummed the rest of the meal!
*This reminds me of a particular little person that was at the preschool while I worked there. Corban does not appreciate being referred to by that person’s name.
**If we would let him, he would eat those exclusively everyday.
***Another thing he really likes, because he knows how to put bread in the toaster and push the buttons.
****Sunday for supper we had burgers. There were only a few frozen patties in the freezer, so I had purchased more on Saturday, in order to have enough. I found some good dairy free cheese slices. The meal was a success…mostly. The newer patties were of a lesser quality. It had not occurred to me that hamburgers might have filler-ingredients. They didn’t hold their shape after being cooked, so, instead of putting the rest in the freezer or cooking them up to have as leftovers, I cooked it up like ground beef and used it for cheese burger mac. That was the best use of that meat product, and I will not be purchasing that brand of beef patties again.
*****I have been having fun researching lots of recipes for sauces like honey mustard for example or dairy free ranch, and so far, those have been successful.