Our daughter is such a picky eater. Not just a little picky and will turn up her nose at broccoli but loves hamburgers. No, she only eats cereal, waffles, pancakes, chicken nuggets, grilled cheese, carrots, green beans, peas, quesadillas and that is pretty much it. Maybe mac and cheese or bananas, but that is on a good day.
So today the unthinkable happened.
I am off work on Fridays so Lily and I get to spend the day together.
I had some left over kale from salads for the week so I told Lily we would make “dino chips.” (AKA Kale with nutrtional yeast on them.)
The first step was preheating the oven to 350 degrees.
While we were waiting for the oven to reach temperature, Lily helped by stripping the leaves from the stems. We didn’t have to rip the kale because it was already in little pieces because I bought a bag already prepared for salads.
Then I tossed the kale with olive oil while Lily sprinkled the yeast on top. (Actually, it was more like dumping then sprinkling.)
I then spread it out over two cookie sheets and baked it for 10 minutes.
They turned out great and very crunchy and had a great cheesy flavor from the nutritional yeast.
It was a little bit of a fight to get Lily to at least taste it. But, when she did, she said it was really good and then continued to eat it.
I was so happy with this little victory.
I guess we can add another food to the short list of what she will eat. Baby steps.
Is your little mousekatot a picky eater? How do you get them to try new foods? Leave your comments below.
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