Re: The Toddler Diet
Sounds just like our house.
I'm inspired. Here are some other dieting techniques employed by my DS:
1. Refuse to eat unless you are sitting on someone's lap. Drop most of food on your parents' clothes.
2. Refuse to wear bib unless all others present also wear bibs.
3. Eat pretzels for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Refuse all other food.
4. Demand food that you've only tasted once long ago that nobody knew you'd remember the name of, and which is not on in the house.
5. Eat very little breakfast, almost no lunch, and no dinner. Go to sleep. Wake up at 1 AM and demand hot dogs with ketchup.
6. When your Papa is too sleepy to protest, convince him to let you eat graham crackers in bed. Make lots of crumbs. Demand for weeks afterwards to be given graham crackers in bed. Howl loudly when denied.
7. When served a bowl of soup, take a fancy to one particular ingredient of the soup, like the noodles. Force your parents to choose between watching you go hungry, or picking out all the noodles (from your bowl and their own bowls) to give to you.
8. Eat a large, well balanced meal. Then, while playing, throw up your entire meal on the rug. Appear to be fine immediately afterwards.
9. Reject an entire box of animal cookies because the lions have all been eaten. Also, reject all the ones that are broken.
10. Choose a food-of-the-week. Eat nothing but that food for an entire week. If that food is denied, eat nothing. (examples: pizza, applesauce, pretzels, oranges).
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