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My kid eats everything. He goes through phases though. Especially when he was 3 to 4, he would just decide "I don't like X". Doesn't matter what "X" was. Strawberries, eggs, whatever. The key was that I didn't argue or fight it. We have the 1-2 bite rule in our house. And if he didn't eat it for dinner, he got it for breakfast. We don't ARGUE about it. We state it as a fact. And there are a few items that he truly doesn't like after trying many times. I still will put them on his plate, but he doesn't have to eat them (veggie burgers, pickles and red bell peppers). Everything else? Gotta at least try it.

I know two sets of parents who's older kids are very picky and younger kids eat everything. It could be a kid thing, but they both admit that when their older kids said "I don't want it", they didn't fight it, they started making something else for them. I don't do that, with the exception of the veggie burger.


The Apple Trick: On Not Tricking Kids into Eating Well
3/10/11 5:05 PM

Well, when I was a college student, my boyfriend had more money. Most nights, what we did was take turns. We had two nights a week where we ate dinner together, and two lunches. And we cooked together. However, when we ate out, he paid (he had more money). But it was on the order of Wendy's or Taco Bell.

Fast forward to new boyfriend/now husband. He did all the cooking. I didn't really cook (in college, I "heated things up"). In fact, for the first 9 years of our relationship, he did 95% of the cooking. But we got fat on his cooking. So I started losing weight and learned to cook.

So the last 9 years have been with my cooking. I do 90% of the shopping, 98% of the cooking, and only 15% of the dishes. He *can* cook, but I throw stuff together, and he needs recipes, and we invariably don't have something that he needs.

When I was pregnant, he did some cooking. He's also the grilled cheese/pancake/scrambled egg guy in the house.

I say cook together or take turns. My best friend's hubby doesn't cook at all, and she's getting kind of tired of doing all of it.


Good Ways for Couples to Share Food Responsibilities?
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7/31/10 12:30 AM

Great article! My son is three, and eats most everything, though he does get picky occasionally. Our ped. says "look at is as a balanced week, not a balanced meal".

We like to eat in season. My son ate a lot of butternut squash as a baby. I find it interesting to look at the differences between first and second babies. My friends' second babies are eating solids like pasta, pizza, etc., WAY earlier than we all did with our first babies. With the first one, we read the books, made the purees, timed everything correctly "how old when he can have broccoli?". With the second? not so much.


Apartment Therapy The Kitchn | Family Mealtime: Cooking for Babies Guest Post from Cheryl of Backseat Gourmet
6/2/09 4:07 PM

I am really enjoying reading this thread. I am not a vegetarian. I have read Omnivore's Dilemma, Fast Food Nation, In Defense of Food, The China Study, Eat to Live, Diet for a New America. All these have certainly caused me to radically decrease my meat consumption to the point where most of my meals are vegetarian or vegan.

After reading The China Study, I am considering a recommendation in the book to go vegetarian but be "loose" about it. Meaning, don't stress if I'm out or at a friend's house for dinner, if there's egg in the bread or broth in the soup. But don't knowingly order/make it.

I think it's a legitimate question to ask why people are vegetarian. It could be ethical (don't want to eat something with a face), it could be environmental, it could be health-related.


Apartment Therapy The Kitchn | Vegetarians: When Did You Stop Eating Meat?
3/17/09 3:22 PM

I do this quite a bit. I have a food blog where I often make a meal and breakdown its cost. It's kind of something I do for fun.

I often can do items for very little, but they are mostly vegetarian. The cost of food has wreaked havoc on my meal calculations...used to be I had several meals at less than $0.75/serving. Now...not so much.

http://frugalhealthysimple.blogspot.com/


Apartment Therapy The Kitchn | Have You Ever Priced a Home-Cooked Meal?
9/24/08 6:10 PM