dashcat
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I've noticed recently that my difficult child's eating habits, while always odd, have become downright bizarre and wondered if this is a difficult child thing or just something unique to her.
This is NOT a battle that I'm choosing to fight, so I say nothing ...just observe and secretly scratch my head.
She lives with her dad but spent last week with me. One night I made two batches of lasagne; meat for her and vegetable for me. My thinking was I'd freeze individual portions of the vegetable for myself and either freeze a few portions of the meat for her for when she comes to visit or maybe send some back with her to Mr. Ostrich's. We had it for dinner on Monday and on Wednesday morning , she had consumed the entire 13x9 pan! I honestly didn't mind ... she was only here for a week, but SHEESH!, that's a lot of lasagne in a very short time.
On Thursday, I made Tiramisu for a dinner I was to be part of on Friday (it was a charity auctioned Italian feast to benefit our teen group at church). Due to a huge storm, the dinner was postponed. Tiramisu will not keep for a week, so I'd planned to be the dessert fairy and take a few pieces to various friends ... and, of course, enjoy some with her. Within two days - with me only having one piece - it was gone.
She has also consumed - on another occasion - two packages of refrigerator crescent rolls that I'd planned to use to make an appetizer for a party. I honestly think she did not cook them (blech!), as she ususally makes a mess when she cooks and there was none....just the phantom and unexplained dissaperance of the packages!
I've found tubs of cookie dough and empty cartons of frosting in her room...(and I have put my foot down about that because of the likelyhood of critters in her room).
But when it comes to a normal meal, she often will say she's not hungry ...she'll eat later. She used to eat a variety of things, but now she turns her nose up at chicken, any vegetable and almost anything that isn't pasta, ground meat or carbs. She seems to eat mostly after I've gone to bed....leftover pizza doesn't stand a chance and I can't buy pop on sale to stock up because she will clean me out.
Do share...
Dash
This is NOT a battle that I'm choosing to fight, so I say nothing ...just observe and secretly scratch my head.
She lives with her dad but spent last week with me. One night I made two batches of lasagne; meat for her and vegetable for me. My thinking was I'd freeze individual portions of the vegetable for myself and either freeze a few portions of the meat for her for when she comes to visit or maybe send some back with her to Mr. Ostrich's. We had it for dinner on Monday and on Wednesday morning , she had consumed the entire 13x9 pan! I honestly didn't mind ... she was only here for a week, but SHEESH!, that's a lot of lasagne in a very short time.
On Thursday, I made Tiramisu for a dinner I was to be part of on Friday (it was a charity auctioned Italian feast to benefit our teen group at church). Due to a huge storm, the dinner was postponed. Tiramisu will not keep for a week, so I'd planned to be the dessert fairy and take a few pieces to various friends ... and, of course, enjoy some with her. Within two days - with me only having one piece - it was gone.
She has also consumed - on another occasion - two packages of refrigerator crescent rolls that I'd planned to use to make an appetizer for a party. I honestly think she did not cook them (blech!), as she ususally makes a mess when she cooks and there was none....just the phantom and unexplained dissaperance of the packages!
I've found tubs of cookie dough and empty cartons of frosting in her room...(and I have put my foot down about that because of the likelyhood of critters in her room).
But when it comes to a normal meal, she often will say she's not hungry ...she'll eat later. She used to eat a variety of things, but now she turns her nose up at chicken, any vegetable and almost anything that isn't pasta, ground meat or carbs. She seems to eat mostly after I've gone to bed....leftover pizza doesn't stand a chance and I can't buy pop on sale to stock up because she will clean me out.
Do share...
Dash