What about eating issues?

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What about eating issues?
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Fri, 06-10-2005 - 2:24pm

We have debated sleeping issues to death once again....so what about another one of the issues of childhood....eating and/or not eating?


My kids eat just about anything and have a pretty well rounded diet.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 03-29-2003
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 12:16pm
ITA. "Fun" is not a dirty word, especially when it comes to childhood. It's essential.
Congratulations! I'm so happy to hear it. I just heard the good news and popped back over, just in case you were still checking in.
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Registered: 03-29-2003
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 12:18pm
The potatoes were just an example to bolster someone else's point about vegetables not being as nutritious today as they were 100 years ago. I wasn't making a big deal out of the example, but then QM came in and had to take issue with it and assert something she knows nothing about. So I contradicted her assertion.
Congratulations! I'm so happy to hear it. I just heard the good news and popped back over, just in case you were still checking in.
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Registered: 03-16-2005
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 12:21pm
There's the thing. Meat with a meal.
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Registered: 03-16-2005
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 12:25pm
"What does it smack of to accept an invitation to a home that you know doesn't follow your own eating guidelines, where you know others who don't share your guidelines will be in attendance, and show up expecting to be accomodated?" Reasonability, if the hosts know of your eating guidelines. I mean, honestly. If someone you invite has a shellfish allergy, they make you aware of that, and for some reason you simply have to serve lobster that very night, you really ought to tell them.
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Registered: 03-16-2005
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 12:27pm
Even if certain vegetables or fruits are less nutritious, it STILL doesn't follow that we need vitamins more than our ancestors did, because our diet is SO much more varied than before the advent of global shipping and refrigeration.
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Registered: 11-10-2004
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 12:28pm

One, a Kosher observing Jew probably won't come to your house. I'm in a more "reform" area and most Kosher Jews make exceptions. Technically, Kosher Jews should not be eating at my house or any non-kosher establishment.

Second, a Kosher Jew would not expect you to understand kosher laws.

Third, I am Jewish and when I invite Kosher Jews to my home, they expect me to understand kosher laws. I do, and accommodate them.

mom_writer

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Registered: 01-05-2005
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 12:29pm

No, it doesn't help much because it isn't much. Its just the age old "I can't" mentality which assume everyone else does what they do with obviously much less effort of discomfort than it would cause oneself to get the same done - and if anyone else had the hurdles presented oneself they wouldn't be able to do it either. Ones situation is - special. As applied to the most trivial daily life issues. Surely to goodness by now you have met no shortage of these people - and realize that they just exist? You should. You play exactly the same card in exactly the same way. Making alpine moutains of the most trivial day to day typical backyard interlock teeny tiny anthills noone else even bothers to spin a brain cycle on.

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Registered: 01-05-2005
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 12:31pm
No, I'm asking you if you actually understood the research you were trying to quote, or if you were mixing it in with other things. Now I know the answer.
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Registered: 01-05-2005
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 12:37pm
Yes. I cook. Which is how I know just tossing together a nice meal from a gener with which one is not familiar - is not a guest pleasing exercise. It takes more than good will and a desire to please. I would certainly suggest that in such a situation, what you have suggested (by accident) is very wise. Should someone turn up in your social circle who has new-to-you requirements - don't have them over. Have them invite you over many times first that you may become actually familiar with what and how they eat and prepare...practice some on your own time and at the expense of your own stomach - and THEN after you have it figured out - invite them over.
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Registered: 07-20-2004
Thu, 06-16-2005 - 12:43pm
Thanks, "Mom", but you're about 22 years too late with that advice.

Karen

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