Have you ever fibbed to get your kids to eat something???

[julieduck]

Had to laugh at 2 of the posts. Saying you licked the chip and put it back in the bag and telling your kid that broccoli is trees. I tell my little one that broccoli is trees too! Somewhere I found a recipe for a spinach stuffing that I just kept in my brain over the years. I hate cooked spinach so it works great for me and the kids.

1 pkg frozen chopped spinach
bread crumbs (I use the canister)
mozarella or parmesan cheese

Thaw spinach. Put in pan on stove. Heat. Add bread crumbs (takes a lot because water from spinach soaks them up). Add enough cheese to melt and stick together in stuffing consistency.

I change it up and add different things like nuts or craisins. And best of all no spinach taste!

[MarlaSinger]

Have you ever fibbed to get your kids to eat something?

Yes. I give them benedryl to make them sleepy. I tell them it's juice.

























I am kidding.

[SavingInLakewood]

My 3 yd old son thinks Soy Joys are candy bars and broccoli sticks are a type of candy.

[Bear]

My boys think liver is steak.

[Sylvia]

Originally Posted by JustJen

My sons are not really picky eaters, but definitely have their moments. In particular my oldest doesn't like cheese (or so he says even though he eats it on Pizza and his favorite food is Mac-n-Cheese.... ). I would make Alfredo sauce and tell him it was a butter sauce just so he would eat it. My other son wouldn't eat pork of any sort and I have no clue why, but I would cut it real small and tell him it was chicken. They both loved what they were eating when they thought it was something else... Can anyone else relate?

Ok... so my family has this sick sense of humor. I do too. My grand nieces didn't like anything green... salad, peas, greenbeans... nothing GREEN passed their lips ever.

One day they were over and started in with they "I don't like green... " whining. I said... "oh dear... I guess you'll grow up flat chested then" (Both of them had just gotten to the stage where they were "modeling" in front of the mirror with oranges under their shirts....) Man! I never saw peas go down so quickly... they even asked for seconds!

It must have worked because neither one of them is flat chested. LOL!

[mnm'z]

Oh, you did not Sylvia, that is hilarious though. I'll have to try that with my friends son. He doesn't like a n y t h i n g and she makes him chips and cheese nearly every night

[Sylvia]

Originally Posted by mnm'z

Oh, you did not Sylvia, that is hilarious though. I'll have to try that with my friends son. He doesn't like a n y t h i n g and she makes him chips and cheese nearly every night

Oh yes I did!! And they love "bikini" bread too... (zuchini bread)

I'd quit making stuff special for him. If he chooses not to eat what everyone else does...in the fridge it goes and he'd get it for breakfast, cold... If he still chooses to not eat it...in the fridge... and he'd get it for lunch. Eventually he'd eat it.

My step daughter had the same problem with her oldest... he's getting better now... because his younger brother is old enough to come eat his stuff too. lol

[kimshaw1106]

I have told my kids if we are eating game meat (deer,bear,buffalo,elk and moose) that it is hamburg or steak..they eat it and dont notice..then my oldest a month or so ago says what does the buffalo steak taste like I said here try a piece of mine..she did and goes I like that can I make one...I had to laugh..My girls called brocolli "trees" when it comes time for the food certain food that I know they will eat but say they wont ends up in a dish..they eat it and never know the difference...sad part is they are 18 and 16 they havent caught on yet....lol SHHHHHHHHHHH

[blocker.9]

I don't have any kids, but when we growing up my mom would tell my little brother that everything was chicken because that was all he would eat - and he believed her!