The lass has reached a new milestone in eating. We've ordered her food from the children's menu. Mixed blessing. We can now bring her to restaurants without bringing food with us, but it also means she's no longer free to feed when going out.
Actually, that's not entirely true. We do still need to take her food when going out since it's hard to know in advance what's on the children's menu and how much they're willing to tweak it to match our paranoid parental dietary restrictions. There's also no way to know if she'll actually eat the stuff we buy for her. And after seeing the negotiation game I've seen my friends play with their kids, I'm concerned.
Just finish what you've got and you can go play…. No? Okay, just eat your greens and you can go…. No? Really, you have to finish your meal….. No? Okay, just one more green bean….. No? Okay, just have one bite of a green bean and you can go play – but you have to swallow it….. No? Okay, fine. Go play.
But none of this has happened to me yet. We've ordered for her 5 times so far. The restaurants have been kind enough to adjust the meal to our liking (not that Pasta, with tomato sauce on the side
or Two eggs, scrambled, no salt
are such hard requests to fulfil). And the girl usually ate most of her meal – though she never actually ate the leftovers we took away in a doggy bag for later (all of these meals were in the States). On the plus side her leftovers have given me something to pick at while waiting for the coffee and dessert to show up after the meal.
I often share my food with Nils if the childrens menu is expensive and its always enough for the both of us + Nils always wants to eat what his parents are eating :-)
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