Last Night's Tea

I made a satay stir fry for tea last night, thinking that it may just get Kasey to eat properly. All the vegies and meat he needed in a peanut sauce. WRONG!!

All I got from him for half an hour after his tea was put in front of him was excuse after excuse as to why he didn't think he should have to eat his food. Here are some of his reasons why he didn't thing he had to eat it -

• I hate food
• My dad says I don't have to eat anything
• If my dad says it's yuk, it's yuk - okay!
• Don't like poo butter
• I not eating my begables
• Don't want it
• This stinks
• I will die if I eat this stuff

And so it went... In the end I took it off him and told him that he wasn't getting anything else - to which he replied "Look moron, my dad will get me icecream if I want it!"

This is a 4 year old talking to me, his Nan. And it gets worse. There are days when I could cheerfully choke the little horror. I told my son last night that as of pay day this week, when I do the shopping, Kasey is going on a Feingold diet. It worked for his father 30 odd years ago, let's see if it makes a difference to Kasey.

http://www.eatwell.gov.uk/foodlabels/understandingenumbers/ - UK Site explaining E-numbers in foods - the nasty stuff that turns nice kids into monsters.

http://www.stressmatters.com.au/enumbers_warning_list.htm - AUS list of bad E-numbers and what they do to people (not just kids) - this list is HUGE!!! I never realised how large the list of bad crap in our foods was!

http://www.foodreactions.org/allergy/additives/ - site with a huge amount of information about E-numbers and their uses and problems that they cause - worth a read.