by PHOODIE
I know this may come as an outrageous shock to everyone but……I love food. Obsessively. Always have. Always will.
And when I say love, I mean LURRRRRRRRVE.
From the moment I popped into the world I’ve been chowing down on something. At first it was milk but pretty soon after it was rice cereal followed by mashed pumpkin, all other vegetables, meat, fish, chicken, pasta, bread, grains and pulses. Then came EVERYTHING ELSE! I’ve never looked back. Do I like sweet foods? Yes! Savoury? Yes! Meat? Yes! Vegetables? Fruit? Yes! Yes! Yessity! Yes! I mean really, there is nothing that I will not eat…..Although I can’t say I get regular cravings for offal!
That said, I do understand that not everyone is the same as me. Some of my earliest childhood memories involve Mum, with a flushed red face, chasing my brother around the swimming pool with a plate of dinner trying to get “at least one spoonful” of whatever she’d cooked into him! He was laughing as he ran faster than she ever could and she was just, well, just INFURIATED! Being a Mum myself now, I can totally understand her pain.
Not only is it a hard enough job for parents to feed their children nutritionally balanced and all round healthy meals three times every single day (plus snacks!), it becomes even more nightmarish when you have to make everything taste delicious as well (or at least appear to!) Over the years I have discovered some awesome tips on how to get the not so favourite foods higher up on the “things i love to eat” list! Some of these tips have come from family, some have come from friends, some I’ve made up and some have been doing the rounds for years! A couple of them may work really well for you and others might not. It’s all about giving them a go. The results will be hit and miss, but at least one hit is better than none!