so, i’m a part-time part-parent to three kids these days.<\/p>\n
my boyfriend, Brad, has three kids who are 10-, 8- and 6-years-old, who live with us for a certain percentage of each week.\u00a0 while i never set out to be anyone’s parental figure, i always kind of thought i’d make a pretty okay step-mom, if i ever were to meet a man who had already procreated.\u00a0 Brad and the kids, luckily, seem to agree, for the most part.<\/p>\n
most of the time, it’s a pretty fun adventure. i got to skip diapers and they can all feed, dress and bathe themselves (with enough cajoling).\u00a0 they can communicate in mostly-full sentences and they can comply with most simple directions without assistance (with enough cajoling).\u00a0 i feel like this was a pretty great age to start a family — not my<\/em> age, i think i’m way<\/em> too old to suddenly have kids, honestly; but, their age.\u00a0 they’re fun and mostly autonomous (with enough cajoling).\u00a0 it’s kinda cool and takes a lot of the pressure off.<\/p>\n but, what i just can’t get my head around is food.\u00a0 trying to feed these three kids is a Herculean task!\u00a0 why, you ask?\u00a0 well, let me point-form it for you:<\/p>\n so, yeah.\u00a0 sigh.<\/em><\/p>\n i mean, i was – ahem, am –<\/em>\u00a0a picky eater, but i think it’s just easier to handle with one kid.\u00a0 multiplying it by three and adding in all the different combinations of dislike makes trying to plan healthy, well-balanced meals a Mensa-level mind-bender.<\/p>\n we have a regular schedule of Taco Wednesdays and Spaghetti Sundays, but the other couple nights a week we need to feed them are utterly frustrating. i don’t want to serve them ground beef-based things multiple nights in a row, but if that’s the only thing they’ll eat, what else can we do?<\/p>\n so, we add in sloppy joes and Brad’s version of Hungarian Goulash.\u00a0 sometimes we can cook them ribs, but that’s starting to out of favour, just like hamburgers and hot dogs did.\u00a0 shepherd’s pie is a no-go because of the potatoes.\u00a0 cabbage roll casserole is a no-go because of the rice.\u00a0 mac & cheese is out because of the dairy and pasta shape restriction. they won’t eat sandwich meat, so there’s no sandwiches.\u00a0 they can’t cut up a sliced roast if it’s on their plate, so we don’t do that (besides, what’s the point of a roast if you can’t serve it with potatoes or rice?).<\/p>\n we have a three-bite rule for new foods, but even that doesn’t work sometimes.\u00a0 we’re also pretty solid about no dessert if they don’t eat their whole dinner, especially if it’s something they’ve successfully eaten before; but, even that doesn’t work if one or more of them is feeling particularly ornery\u00a0 that evening.\u00a0 so we tell them “don’t worry kids, if you don’t want to finish your dinner, it’ll be waiting for your bedtime snack”.\u00a0 you can imagine how well that goes over.<\/p>\n googling “kid-friendly dinner ideas” comes back with all these cheesy, creamy, breaded things that any combination of the five us can’t or won’t eat.\u00a0 i don’t know what to do anymore, really.<\/p>\n it’s not all bad, though.\u00a0 they like most vegetables, even if preferably raw. so, the chances of them getting scurvy are low, at least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" so, i’m a part-time part-parent to three kids these days. my boyfriend, Brad, has three kids who are 10-, 8- and 6-years-old, who live with us for a certain percentage of each week.\u00a0 while i never set out to be anyone’s parental figure, i always kind of thought i’d make a pretty okay step-mom, if …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18,7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-parenting","category-self-indulgence","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3042,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions\/3042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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