WHAT DID YOU DO WITH MY MOMMA!!! ALIEN BENCHTABLE BAD GUY!!!

[KillerMuffin]

I am and evil benchtablearian bad guy space alien!! eat broccolli earthling scum!!

The whole space alien thing Siren brought up is so funny cause I've officially been accused of being a space alien benchtable, I mean vegetable bad guy.

My house has officially gone vegetarian, for a while at least. Only fish, eggs, and an occassional non pickoutable chicken dish. Why? Mr. I hate benchtables. Won't eat em. You get sick of sitting there with the spanking threats in the air, the rewarming of plates over and over and overm, the tears, hysterics, gagging sounds, and straight forcing him to eat it cause he won't do it any other way. I don't just want him to eat benchtables vegetables, I want him to do it without the damned melodramatic theatrics.

So we are veggie for a while. There isn't anything else in the house to eat but veggie dishes. I have a new cookbook, lots of good stuff, plenty of well rounded meals. A hell of a lot better than what he had been eating. He is almost as stubborn as I am.

We are having the "momma is trying to kill me so she must be a space alien not momma" melodramatics now. Cause I told him that if he don't eat his benchtables, darn it, vegetables, then he can go hungry. Now he thinks I'm trying to starve him. He thought there were hot dogs in the fridge (there were yesterday, now they're at the kid down the street's house), so he opened it up and screamed. Then he did a death scene that DCL would be proud of.

Its attack of the pears and cheerios for breakfast. Lunch will be a lovely mixed vegetable with cheese and tuna dish, and dinner is of course, more vegetables. He loves helping me cook it, but hates eating it. My child is in a benchtable hell, just ask him.

 

[forgetunome]

Hope it works for ya'

Wishing you the best in benchtable land! But...have you thought that maybe he will never like veggietables?

 

[Bliss]

Good Luck KM!

I HATED beggables when I was little and that stubborn thing sounds reeeeeeeeeeeally familiar, too.

You have a Wild Oats, or some similar natural food grocery, in your neck of the woods? Take him shopping (I know, joy joy) and let him see all the pretty good for him stuff. Maybe if he helps pick some out, he won't be so ready to scream bloody murder at the dinner table.

Here's a wacky idea - stop reheating his plate, he'll get the idea soon enough. And no screaming in rebuttal, either.

If all else fails, try some downhome cooking - fried chicken, mashed potatoes, okra and tomatoes, homemade bisquits. Dang, now I'm hungry!

 

[Cheri]

Good luck Miss Muff. My oldest is pretty good about eating or at least trying things and the baby eats anything paper included. I've been nudging my vay towards complete vegatarianism, but haven't made the complete leap as of yet due to my love of grilled meat. Maybe during the winter I will. I do have a really good cookbook/guide called Vegetarianism for Dummies that is most educational about all the interesting things like tofu and textred vegetable protein.
As for interesting ideas the only ones that come to mind at this sec are pureed vegetable or potato soups with lots of crackers, veggie hotdogs (Morning Star are pretty good if grilled) and hiding veggies instead of meat in spaghetti sauce. Also my boys love making tofu pudding and getting to press the button on the blender.
As I said before, good luck.

 

[Savage Kitten]

MuffMuff- goodluck

have you talked to your pediatrician?

my oldest was born 8lb 9oz 21in she is now almost 11yr 5'1" 105lb. my baby was born 9lb 3oz 22in she will be 8yr soon is barely 40lb and still wears size 4t & 5 clothes.

needless to say I was concerned that she wasn't growing like my first one did. and she is such a picky picky eater! the doc was a lil concerned that she was so tiny also. he 'jokingly' recommended putting her on a sundea diet (1 b4 bedtime each night)

Essentially, what he told me was, let her be a kid and eat a kids diet. Which includes, hotdogs, mac n cheese, sandwhiches, chips, etc. (all the stuff kids love) and with that you can add some veggies here and there... fresh ones work best (i would give them baby carrots or celery and salad dressing with sandwiches for ex.). He said that a kid deprived of a 'kids diet' growing up usually becomes an obese adult with food disorders of some kind.

I've never NOT allowed them to have something they wanted to eat. I might use it as a bargaining tool (eat this for lunch and you can have this for dinner). It amazes me that my children never ask for candy bars or hard candy. They never hardly even make a dent in their halloween or easter candy. I think the reason is that I have never deprived them of that stuff so they don't really 'crave' it.

believe me, i remember being a kid and fighting about freakin veggies (spinache! ugh) My oldest loves green beans but not corn and my baby loves corn but not green beans. So they both get a veggie but not what they don't like.

does he like peanut butter? have u ever made 'ants on a log'? thats peanut butter spread on a celery stick tops with raisens... lots of fun to make and I've never seen a kid turn them down.

good luck honey, I know being a mom isn't easy *grinz* but dangit... ain't it fuuuuunnnn??? hehe

 

[Guest]

LMAO! THEY ALL HATE BENCHTABLES!!!

 

[KillerMuffin]

He was born 4 lb 5 oz dropped to 4 pounds in about two hours. Now he is up to nearly 3 and 1/2 feet tall and weighs 45 pounds. The pediatrician says he is anemic and recommended iron pills and spinach. Vitamins and pills are simply no substitute for food. If I let him not eat veggies, he'll get sick. Oh yeah, no more Koolaid either. For some reason the Ped says it leeches iron from the blood. So its vegetable time.

No, he may never like vegetables, and may only tolerate them when coated in some sort of sauce, but at least he will eat them. Particularly now when his body needs them the most.

Dessert law has been a bent ironclad law in our house forever. You don't eat all of your food, you don't get dessert. Well, eat most of it and you'll get dessert. We now have a gorgeous oreo cookie cake standing in a glass cake dish on the counter in plain site of the dinner table. Want dessert? Eat your dinner. Sweets and stuff aren't out, but main courses that don't have veggies are.

[Edited by KillerMuffin on 10-04-2000 at 11:19 AM]

 

[Cheri]

No, he may never like vegetables, and may only tolerate them when coated in some sort of sauce, but at least he will eat them. Particularly now when his body needs them the most.

Perhaps a better approach would be to have you and him start a search (with a pirate map to boot) for the veggies he does like instead of focusing on what he doesn't.
Damn don't I sound like a Pollyanna!

 

[Savage Kitten]

speaking of iron

Tea also blocks the bodies absorbtion of iron.

When I was preg I was anemic, they had me on 3 iron pills a day. The doc said you could eat 3 helpings of liver and drink one glass of tea for dinner and your body would only get about 10% of the iron from all that liver.

Anyway, koolaides and any juices with red dyes are bad for the kidneys. See how they stain the container you keep them in? They stain your kidneys the same way.

PS.. abt being anemic. Sometimes it doesn't matter how many veggies and high iron foods you eat if your body can't break down those foods and take the iron it needs. Thats why supplemental vitamins and iron pills help, cause it gives the body directly what needs. Mind you, the are supplemental not replacement.

just givin ya suggestions. I realize every parent knows their child best.

[Edited by Savage Kitten on 10-04-2000 at 11:25 AM]

 

[KillerMuffin]

No, he may never like vegetables, and may only tolerate them when coated in some sort of sauce, but at least he will eat them. Particularly now when his body needs them the most.

Perhaps a better approach would be to have you and him start a search (with a pirate map to boot) for the veggies he does like instead of focusing on what he doesn't.
Damn don't I sound like a Pollyanna!

Been there done that. Corn is it. And those brown things that sound like tomatoes. But not tomatoes. *sigh* My son has an agenda, a campaign, and a strategy to prevent him from eating his vegetables.

If it weren't for the anemia, this just wouldn't be that big of a deal, but he's been on iron enhanced vites for years, so he has to eat.

 

[Cheri]

Good grief think creatively here ma'am! Veggie chicken nuggets, hamburgers and hotdogs might have more iron than normal ones. Also I seem to remember something about certain foods being eated together will increase vitamin absorption including iron. For some reason orange juice and hamburger ring a bell. Talk to a dietician maybe they'd have better practical advice than the Doc (sorry Ollie lol). How about making fresh spinach pasta together? Bet he'd love rolling it out and cutting (with kiddie scissors of course).
Don't let the munchkin get you down!