WHAT DO I MAKE FOR DINNER?!?!?!
Silly me, I figured I'd have some time before this one started, but oh. my. LORD, now that she's eating real food and needs three real meals a day, I am constantly wondering what to feed her. I stand in front of the fridge, staring, and try to think: what should I feed her? should I actually cook something, or just give her some bits of things? half will end up on the floor in Penny's belly, so do I really want to go to the trouble of cooking? but it needs to be healthy! she hates plain veggies - if I don't cook them in things, will she ever eat them? and on and on and on. When it comes to this particular issue, I am SO ready for her to be bigger so I can make a sandwich with some apple slices and just hand it to her. This in between stage of not ready for hard foods/way past purees is killin' me.
And so the other night, in a moment of weary, I went against what I would normally find acceptable, and fed the kid some leftover Little Ceasar's pizza, her first "fast food". And she LOVED it. Sigh.*
Not that I ever judged other mom's and their decisions, but it is in these moments that I realize that when push comes to shove, sometimes you just have to do what makes life easier. And tonight, that was pizza. I think she'll survive (and hopefully grow to love pizza night as much as I do :)
*I am not opposed to pizza one bit. In fact, it's one of my most favoritest foods. I am trying so hard, though, to fill Ellie's belly with only very healthy things until she's old enough to verbally oppose what I put in front of her. Then it's all bets off.
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