Oh wow Wednesday

Sounds like an amazing time Glenda!!!

Not much to report this morning.  On our journey to introduce more foods to Riley, we discovered she likes wheat bulgar.  Talk about a shocker.  I make a wheat bulgar pilaf (well it comes in a box anyway) and she ate it up!  Whoo Hoo!  She is extremely picky and since she HAS to eat to take her arthritis meds we never really had the option of "then just don't eat" so introducing new stuff has been a long slow process, but we are getting there.  Tonight is steak tacos so we will see  how that goes - at least she likes the tortilla part.

The corporate Amex statements seem like a cake walk this month compared to the ongoing uniform saga. White shirts in fast food = really stupid move by corporate.

DS and I are dogsitting for a week, so that's a change in routine. Just makes me think even more about adopting my own again once DS moves out.

mrstjohnson

so introducing new stuff has been a long slow process, but we are getting there. 

When Kate was little she wouldn't eat anything either except for chicken.  So, no matter what I put in front of her (beef, pork, fish - anything really), as long as I told her it was chicken - she ate it.  Sheesh  . . . the lies I told that kid !!!

Deb W.

Julie - This is what I make - I kinda sorta tastes like wheat rice pilaf:

http://www.neareast.com/#products/wheat_pilaf_mix

Deb - we did that with fried stuff for awhile.  Anything breaded we put in front of her was called chicken nuggets and she ate it without question. 

However, when we went through the phase where we had to hide her liquid meds in stuff she started to get food paranoid and refused anything unless she watched us open it and put it on her plate.  She literally smells and touches her tongue to anything we give her just to make sure it doesn't have medicine in it...and it's been a year since we had to do that!!!!!!  She won't eat pudding at all anymore nor muffins - two of our favorite hiding spots. 

 haah!  Apparently, for the first 18 months of his life, my nephew would only eat white things.  They couldn't get meat or veggies into him, no matter how it was presented. lol  Turned out he's hyper-sensitive to textures just as he is to sounds, etc.

Glad you had such an adventure, Glenda!

You know what  is really stupid - when someone keeps repeating the same thing after their listener says "I don't understand."  I'm listening to this conversation next to me where my boss is saying "I have no idea what you are saying" and the woman keeps saying the same thing again and again.  Honey, the same words, faster or slower or louder or softer are not going to make a difference.  Find a new way to say it!

miranadobe

You know what  is really stupid - when someone keeps repeating the same thing after their listener says "I don't understand."  I'm listening to this conversation next to me where my boss is saying "I have no idea what you are saying" and the woman keeps saying the same thing again and again. 

Oh, I hate that! Similarly, when someone asks a question and I say "I don't know the answer" and then the person keeps repeating the question over and over, as if it will suddenly come to me.

What really cheeses me off is when somebody comes into my office and says "how do I" . . . . . (whatever it is they are looking to get accomplished) and then I spend 15 minutes explaining the steps and process  . . . and they say "no that's not how you do it".  Well then, why did you bother asking dude ??

Deb W.

 One of the kids I used to work with was on a gluten free diet (because that's one of the stupid fad treatments for autism). I feel horrible for anyone who legitimately has Celiac disease and has to eat gluten free. His mom kept giving him waffles,and honestly, I tasted it once, and it tasted like cat scan contrast. I gagged on it and nearly vomited. After that, he would not eat anything called a waffle. He had tried and liked Eggo Waffles, but if you called it a waffle, he would not touch it. If you called it an Eggo, he would have no problem eating it. Random thought... might Riley trust the food more if she had "helped" with it, thus she would know you hadn't played any tricks on her.  I certainly wouldn't trust anyone who had tricked me into eating bad things. After that kid's mother gave me the waffle to taste and had told me that it wasn't bad, I  never trusted anything gluten free, or anything at her house that I did not see come out of the package. On the other hand, there are other people who could trick me into eating just about anything, because they have only ever given me good stuff.

miranadobe

haah!  Apparently, for the first 18 months of his life, my nephew would only eat white things.  They couldn't get meat or veggies into him, no matter how it was presented. lol  Turned out he's hyper-sensitive to textures just as he is to sounds, etc.

I have a friend, though I haven't seen her in years, who was like that as a teen/adult, would eat nothing darker than kraft mac and cheese. She only ate thing between white-orange. Mostly just because she was a pain in the you know what. Nobody liked going out to eat with her. My friend's 13 month old apparently has never liked green things. He just won't eat them, though he did eat frozen peas the other day. I've suspected he has some issues since the first time I saw him as a newborn, and this doesn't do much to make me feel like I am wrong. I just don't see him enough to feel certain on this.

Glenda -- WOW .... from **deep** in my heart.  WOW ... OH .... WOW

John Williams?  DITTO ABOVE

TANGLEWOOD??  Oh ..... my ...... gosh .....  just to be THERE. 

I, too, am a Rock 'n Roll Mama (and Hooked on Classics has a LOT to be resonsible for LOL). 

Jen - she helps me all the time and still nada.  She makes Chicken enchiladas, brownies, muffins, cakes, chops veggies, etc. still nada.  That's ok - we still keep plugging along.  I figure if she adds one new food a week we are doing OK.  She now understands that she can't leave the table until she takes at least 3 bites of the new thing.  Some times she likes it, some times she doesn't.  But the fact that she's taking the bites is HUGE.

Jen - trust me, I didn't like putting it in her food either but if it is the difference between your child walking or not, you do it.

mrstjohnson

She makes Chicken enchiladas, brownies, muffins, cakes, chops veggies, etc.

If I recall correctly, she also makes home-made pasta like nobody's business.  I may have to hire her soon, Lisa.

Deb W.