Lily gobbles food. She can stuff a whole Jaffa cake in one go and she's only 2!!! Daisy is really fussy about food and gets very anxious if over encouraged to eat. So I have a plan. I bake and grow my own vegetables and soft fruit. I also pickle and make jam so I'm on a mission to get the children to appreciate the smell, texture and process of making and cooking food. I think it will help.
Yesterday Daisy picked raspberries with daddy. They washed them and smelt them. Yum!! She proceeded to eat a very large bowl full. Fantastic!!
Lily and Daisy were both shown the home made bread as it cooled on it's rack. They smelt it and tapped it. Lily rubbed her belly and shouted yummy!! They eat it crusts and all.
Now they have little aprons and I'm going to continue this theme of smelling and looking at food. It's so less stressful!!
After all our walking challenges and seeing lots of blackberry bushes, I decided that we should pick some and see how they were. We've been talking about it for so long. So on another walk Grandma picked some and Eddie nibbled odd little bits of blackberry as we walked back to the car. 'They're tiny little bits stuck together Mummy!' Ollie wouldn't try one after seeing Mummy go, 'OOOO that was sour' (FAIL)
We sat down after tea, Grandma had washed the berries and we each had some blackberries and had some oranges from the fruit bowl too. Eddie really enjoyed eating them whole this time, Mummy didn't find another sour one, even Ollie tried one but stuck to his satsuma. The boys commented that it was yummy, that the juice burst into their mouth when they bit and that it tasted like blackcurrant squash.
This was fun.
I made prawn crackers this afternoon and the boys hadn't eaten them before so we tried to concentrate on the textures and taste. The boys took it in turns crunching as loud as they could, putting a broken bit on to their tongue to feel the texture and sucking it to feel it melt.
Zach said 'I love all the crunchiness and I want them in my lunchbox when we go back to school.' Oscar said 'more whackers, more whackers'. A sign they were a favourite for him too!
We did this over a late breakfast/brunch of vegi sausages, baked beans, toast, fried egg, orange juice and tea.
Tof says 'it made it feel like I ate way much more 'cos I ate it slowly and it made it taste different, but it was even more better when I started mixing food together, like beans and toast, sausage with egg. It was delicious'
I found that the vegi sausages were much juicier than I was expecting, the egg oilier and the toast crunchier. I'll try to remember to do this at every meal 'cos it made both of us appreciate our food more.
What a simple but effective idea! We did this as a taste test with our eyes closed....the girls loved it!!
I had a yummy orange ice lolly ,i dont lick them i suck the juice out of them the orange then slowly turns to white specks of ice. It was a sweet icy treat. The texture is amazing .