Monday, January 4, 2010

Getting Juan Or to Eat Meat


Just recently, Mommy 'accidentally' found a way to get Juan Or to eat meat - call it serendipity! All the while before Mommy discovered this new way, whenever Mommy eats her meals, Mommy will share some with Juan Or. So, fearing Juan Or may choke on eating chunks of meat, Mommy would chew the meat first before giving it to Juan Or. Actually, for vegetables, Mommy would do the same too and Juan Or ate them eagerly for sweet potato leaves and water convulus (kangkong), but when it comes to meat, he would spit it out even though Mommy tried hiding it in the rice! After thinking over and pondering about how to get Juan Or to eat meat, suddenly Mommy remembered what the babysitter told Mommy. She observed that Juan Or loves eating noodles, vermicelli (bee hoon) and even flat noodles (pan mee). So why not Mommy shred the meat according to the grain so that the meat shreds resemble noodles? And that's exactly what Mommy did and sure enough, Mommy managed to 'trick' Juan Or into eating meat! Woo-hoo! Hopefully Juan Or puts on more weight now that he's eating more meat!
What about other mummies out there? How do you get your child to eat something he/she doesn't like to eat? Mommy would love to hear from you!

4 comments:

smallkucing said...

very clever of Mummy :)

mNhL said...

YX is just the opposite of Juan Or. He only eat meats and not vege. Even I hide some small pieces of veg into his rice/porridge, he will spit them out. But your method was a good trick. hehe....

Alice Law said...

Juan doesn't eat white rice but she loves Sushi! She doesn't eat fried fish but she loves grilled fish and seafood (specially cod and scallops); she hates meat but she loves roasted and herbal chicken.

So guess we don't actually have much problem with her diet, the only problem is we have to spend a fortune on it!

Alice Phua said...

Smallkucing, :P

mNhL, actually for Juan Or, he only eats that 2 types of vege. Other veggies he won't even want to try at all.

Alice Law, yes, I agree, your daughter is not so much of a problem when it comes to eating, only thing is that she's choosy on how it is cooked.