Actually, he has made some progress. Just last Monday he ate green beans at the Montgomery's. It was funny - they invited us over for a BBQ dinner with their fam (Ivy rocks)and I was excited because in peer pressure situations, Brian will usually cave in. So when Ivy's husband - a big "manly man" told Brian, in all sincerity, that he just had to try the beans... he waited to see if Mitch was kidding. He wasn't. So with all eyes on him, he reached into the bean pile, hesitantly took like 3 of them, and gingerly placed them on his empty plate (he had already devoured 3 hamburgers before most of us had finished one). I was dying instead. It was all I could do to keep a straight face. Amazingly, he ate them rather quickly, without gagging or desperately reaching for a drink to wash it down. When I asked him later about it, he said "chel, they were really good! They had butter and garlic all over them! They were even juicier than the burgers. Id eat any vegetable you drench in butter. Maybe even fruit too."
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Can't get your man to eat veggies? You should try roasting them in the oven. You can do about any veggie, throw it on a cookies sheet (with edges), pour on some extra virgin olive oil, salt & pepper, throw it in the over at 425 for about 15 minutes and you'll be amazed! Green beans and broccoli are our favorites like that. -Val (Oh yes about the football guilt trip... Sorry. You can tell Brian that I don't understand all of it still!)
That is so funny that he's not a veggie or fruit guy. Garlic and butter all over veggies, I'll have to try that with the girls. They love salads and carrots w/ ranch, but that is about it!! Love the pictures, you are brave to not have a bib on her. We have SOOO many stained outfits from when the girls were little.
Val - that's a great idea, but would never work. You don't understand the extent of Brian's stubborness. It doesn't matter how good the vegetable tastes. If he KNOWS it's a vegetable, he won't touch it. It's like if someone gives you a bowl of icecream, and tells you it was made with milk from a cat, and there are dead ants ground into it. It doesn't matter if it still tastes good. You won't eat it. It's a mind-game.
Mandy - I'm not brave to not have a bib- I'm lazy. Sometimes I just think "oh, I'll just be really careful not to get it anywhere but in her mouth." HA. I'm quickly learning that's not possible. So I've been using bibs more often, or just feeding her in her diaper only :)
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