Not too long ago I went through a phase of trying to cook healthy meals. Big, complicated, healthy things with all the food groups appropriately balanced and lots of herbs and spices and lots of preparation required. Then I got pregnant. And everything made me sick. Enter: Regular Food.
Now I cook stuff that my family will actually eat. (Surprise, my family didn't LIKE my big complicated healthy food that took hours to prepare.) And while I always said that I'd NEVER be a mom who would make different things for each kid at every meal because they can learn to like what I make, I now make different things for each kid. Because, really, if you're making fish sticks and one kid doesn't like them, its really not any more effort to put some chicken nuggets on the pan next to the fish sticks and put them both in the oven. And if one kid doesn't like one veggie and the other kid doesn't like the other, well I want them to eat vegetables. So I make two kinds. Maybe one day someone will accidentally eat the vegetable they thought they didn't like and realize they like it. Or maybe that's just wishful thinking.
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