Food Wars

About a week ago I started feeding Amelia whatever we were eating for dinner. Yes I have made the enormous parental blunder of making her special "kid meals" for dinner every night. Our pediatrician strongly recommended enforcing this now before we have a very picky eater on our hands forever. 
I admit, I was pretty concerned about this drastic change. I mean what if she didn't eat and went to bed without dinner???? 
Well... that's pretty much what  has been happening. And she has been perfectly happy and healthy.

The first night she refused to even look at her food.....

The offender....vegetable lo mein

Its been a week and I really feel like we are making good progress. This does not mean she is eating what I make but she is putting her fork in it and offering it to me and her bunny's. For Amelia, it is huge progress to even look at food she doesn't want to eat, let alone begin to play with it.

Tonight we had chicken broccoli alfredo. While she didn't eat this, she did ask to have some peppers out of the fridge. Ok, so she asked for something different and I gave it to her. That is not the point!! The point is she asked for a vegetable!!! Unprecedented!!This is growth!!! We'll keep you posted.

Oh also very funny....I asked her if she was going to eat her broccoli and she told me it was sleeping! LOL