Spaghetti or not

Since Evie was born, Pat and I have both said that we would feed her what we were having for dinner (within reason of course) when she was old enough.  We didn’t want to cater to our child’s every whim.  You either eat what we make or you don’t eat.  We were so idealistic!  And while we do offer her bites of what we eat, she does have different meals than us sometimes.  But we try and we’re doing our best to make her an adventurous eater.



Last night we ended up having spaghetti and meatballs for dinner.  This is not one of Evie’s favorite meals, but we keep trying.  The weird part is, most of the time, she won’t even try it.  She literally will not take one bite.  For most other foods, she will at least put it in her mouth and then spit it out if she doesn’t like it.  But not spaghetti.  Lately she’s been doing better with pasta – she ate macaroni and cheese twice last week!  But she still won’t try most others.  I think it has to do with the consistency & texture of it.  I guess it could be the sauce, but I know that she likes tomatoes – she ate tons of tomatoes over the summer that Pat grew in his garden.  Last night she ate her fruit and some croutons from my salad and a baby food veggie pouch (getting her to eat her vegetables is another struggle for us), but ignored her spaghetti.  When she announced that she was all done, I told her that she could get down if she tired one bite of her spaghetti.  “I don’t want that” she said.  I countered with “I don’t care – one bite and you can get down”.  “I don’t like that” she said.  “Just one bite.  Please”.  No. Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes.  She finally picked up her fork and shoved a piece of meatball in her mouth and slowly chewed.  First thing you know, she starts to spit it out.  I asked her to please chew it up and swallow… and she promptly burst in to hysterical tears.  Geez what a little drama queen!  I let her spit it out so as not to traumatize the poor child.  Geez.
 Mom fail. :(

She won't eat spaghetti, but she loves chili!