Facebook is not: a confessional, a shrink's office, a diary, etc.
With a few exceptions, we pretty much weren't allowed to not like anything. That was a bit too harsh, though, so while I have never let my boys be picky, I don't force them to eat things I know they just can't stand.
We have a Two No Thank You Bites rule for things that the kids don't want to eat. Unless it is for things that I know they truly loath, like with eggs for Trevor. I won't force him to eat them. Most things they have to take two bites of to have permission to not eat it, because there is a difference between not really liking something and having something be so horrible to you that you literally cannot swallow it.
I grew up eating what most would consider weird food. We were vegetarians and pretty much everything was as basic as it could get. There was nothing with anything artificial at all. Never once growing up do I remember white sugar in the house. Practically never was there anything packaged. And my mom grew her own vegetables and we would go out around town looking for fruit trees that were overfull in peoples yards and she would ask if we could pick the fruit and then she would can it up, enough for the whole winter.
Add to that that my brother was allergic to corn, wheat and dairy. So those items, or things with those items in them, were scarce in our house.
A typical dinner would be home made beans, baked winter squash, brown rice and spouts she grew in a jar on the counter. With soy sauce and nutritional yeast for seasoning.
James mom bought me my first hamburger when I was fourteen, a whopper. It was horrible. I managed two bites only.
A typical dinner would be home made beans, baked winter squash, brown rice and spouts she grew in a jar on the counter. With soy sauce and nutritional yeast for seasoning.
This is yummy. I <3 nutritional yeast.
"We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think."
— Rod Serling
"Chuck calls Noah fortnightly on his bakelite rotary phone and gives him publisher's insider information and stock tips."- Tuffy
I grew up with no salt, no butter, mostly fish and chicken and some red meat. We ate salad with just about every meal, and hardly ever had fast food. Also lots and lots of homemade Italian food. My parents had a vegetable garden so we had lots of squash, tomatoes, zucchini, etc. Our house in California had a kiwi tree, but my mom had never seen a kiwi so she took it to the grocery store to find out what was growing in the yard and if it was edible, ha.
My kids will pretty much eat anything, but poor Giancarlo absolutely will not, cannot eat mashed potatoes. I don't even make them because they make him gag. Anthony thinks cooked carrots shouldn't be allowed unless they're in a roast or soup.
You can't make me eat black olives. They're so disgusting. Everything about them is totally gross.
But yeah, I mean catsup and pasta, wtf?
The funniest thing is - she doesn't eat it like, uh, spaghetti. Like, she doesn't put the ketchup on the pasta noodles. She puts the ketchup off to the side and dips the noodles in it. This is a normal meal for her, not just something weird she does once in a while.
That is one of the grossest things ever.
What is wrong with people like that?
Was she like that when your brother married her?
My son was the most picky eater/drinker. He ate chicken nuggets, grilled cheese sandwiches and french fries. He drank juice, pop and sugar crap. I tried the "let him starve" method a few years back, but had to give in after he got sick on day 4 with a high enough fever that we had to go to the ER. They asked what he had eaten and drank in the last few days and all I could say was "absolutely nothing".
It didn't go over too well. They didn't care that I had tried to give him a host of healthy things to eat. They didn't care that I constantly had water available for him. It sucked.
He eats much better now. I instituted a "try a bite" rule before I fed him "his" food and eventually he started eating other foods.
Mom's gonna fix it all soon.
They just got married a couple weeks ago. They dated for 5-6 years, I think. She's been like that as long as I've known her.
Ummm, the dipping of the noodles in the ketchup.....Disgusting. Yuck.
Whatever Whore!
My brother's wife, she only eats:
- noodles and ketchup
- french fries
- McDonald's hamburgers (no cheese or onions)
- Cheese only Pizza
No veggies, no fruits, no other meats really (sometimes pork chops).
It's weird when we all go to family functions and she won't eat anything. She'll just sit there and stare at everybody eating.
Ugh, poor woman. No way I could eat those things all the time, my stomach would be so upset.
I hope Lucy doesn't get too fussy as she gets older, I know it happens. Today she had a banana for breakfast, pear as a snack, custard for lunch, more pear, some cruskit crackers with marmite (our first go at this, she loved it!) and for dinner she had minced beef, pumpkin, kumara and potato mash, and egg noodles. She had mango and some other fruit puree for pudding.
Such a guts! She got weighed today and has put on 400g in about 2 or 3 weeks.
Sounds like Lucy's eating well! 
I grew up with just having to eat whatever my mom made for dinner. Don't like it? Bummer, it's all we got.
It didn't go over too well. They didn't care that I had tried to give him a host of healthy things to eat. They didn't care that I constantly had water available for him. It sucked.
He eats much better now. I instituted a "try a bite" rule before I fed him "his" food and eventually he started eating other foods.
My mom would have smacked me half to death before making me go hungry, but would have died herself before employing that method, I think out of her own personal sense of dignity which stems from the idea that what she cooks should be appreciated. HIS food? Sheeit. Is your son a prince, that you cook this meal, and then another, and after a perusal the lord chooses what's to his liking? My mom's kid-slapping hand would twitch just thinking about it.
Same here. We had to eat what we got, and it still happens that mum makes food I don't like, but I just eat it anyway. It's mostly vegetable-based, and I know I have to get my vitamins somewhere.
BUT. There aren't too many meals I like. Probably because I haven't started cooking, yet, and maybe there's more out there, but we don't have a very large variety of food. Maybe 20-30 recipes.
The vegetables are the most important component of Dutch dinners. You get one piece of meat, some potatoes and gravy, and then lots of veggies. Mash it all together (not the meat though...), voila!
I love vegetables.
Pete, did your brother marry Honey Boo Boo's mom?
As poor as we were, we always ate big dinners with veggies and potatoes and everything. I didn't exactly eat healthy all the time but i never went to bed hungry. Food was always a top priority in my house growing up.
My parents were and still are the same. Two top priorities: healthy food and education. Healthy because mum has always stayed at home and cooked all of our meals.
I have found that the more broke I am the better we eat, in general.
The less money I have for food the further I must make it stretch which means everything is made from scratch and in large quantities + a lot of baked goods as snacks.
If I only have a hundred dollars for food one week we will be likely eating turkey and ham dinners with cakes and cookies and pies and all the veggies and all the meals i can make out of left overs. If I have three or four hundred for groceries I get lazy and we have a lot of take out and packaged snacks and store bought lunches.
lol She's not as outgoing.
i have a friend on facebook who got into doctor who about 6 weeks ago.
every fucking day her status updates are about doctor who and doctor who references in real life.
i mean, i get it. you think it's a good show but come on.
Ugh. A freind of mine broke up with her boyfriend, and I had no idea until she started writing really cryptic messages on FB, and quotes about trust and relationships.
Haha, this was me! I still don't really like cooked carrots, but I'll eat them if I'm at a restaurant or someone else's house or something. They just don't taste right to me.
I don't like most vegetables that are fully cooked. Slightly steamed or "raw" is my favorite way to eat most vegetables.
Oh and I'm getting kind of sick of one of my friend's who just changed his lifestyle to a healthier one, which is great, but each post is like an ad for Herbalife and it's borderline cultish.
Know what's healthier than Herbalife?
Real food.
yeaaaahhh. That's what kinda weirds me out.
Some old friends/acquaintances of mine are having a spat on facebook. Is it bad that I find it entertaining? Its been going on all day.
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
Nope. That's why it's there. Enjoy!
This is why we can't have nice things.
I really can't stand it when couples are all "I just want to thank my wonderful husband blah blah blah blah blah gush gush gush gush."
*vomits*
Don't you people talk in real life? Do you think we all think your relationship is a sham so you better prove to us it isn't? Gah.
I do like it when barbwig send silly links and stuff to each other.
But the "I have the best partner in the whole world" thing makes me spew.
ha.
Yes I agree.
I always feel awkward seeing any overly lovey junk in public and get annoyed when others do all the time. This is why James and I use facebook mostly to argue via chat a far as communicating with each other on there goes.
Also, those people that post that stuff... Especially because of that whole 'did you forget i know you two in real life... ?" thing!
That kind of stuff is the kind of stuff that is only good when you do it. If others do it, they are annoying. But you see, it doesn't matter to them that you find them annoying. Haven't you ever been in love and wanted to tell the whole world?
I prefer to hide my love until my friends' and family's questions about WHY CAN'T YOU GO and WHAT ARE YOU DOING TOMORROW and WHO'S THAT GUY WHO WAS HOLDING YOUR HAND BEFORE YOU SHOVED HIM BEHIND THAT CONVENIENTLY PLACED BUT COMICALLY UNDERSIZED FIRE HYDRANT?
But, I don't have a facebook.
No. Love stinks.
Yes I have been in love and wanted to tell the whole world.
The reactions have been:
"You're too young for any of us to respect that you have human feelings."
and
"You treacherous bitch let's see how you feel after I tell everyone what you have done to me by feeling like that towards someone else [follows through with threat]."
oh well.
Mike's optimistic view of the world.
That will be me if my classmate ever dates one of the girls in our year/class.
_eNdLeSs_PlAtEs_
Si vis pacem, para bellum
Before I delete him, I thought I'd tell you guys about this guy I used to live down the street from. He kind of put people off with his brash self serving attitude. But not so much he didn't have friends. He went to a private school and was good with computers.
Well, turns out he's now a CEO millionaire. All his status updates just go to show how much he has used money to substitute for a personality.
"Long flight. I don't know how anyone could take the economy class."
"I live your dream vacation every day."
"Going out tonight. (Picture of 20s and 100s spread out)"
"So sick of fake people using me for my money."
"Another reason why my life's better than yours (picture of one of his penthouses)."
I'll tell you. This guy is annoying yet so sad..
Yup he needs a personality transplant. Stat.
My friend is a bartender in Manhattan. He said a guy payed him $50 to pretend they were friends, to impress a new girlfriend. She said all his other friends are Wall St. douches. Then the guy payed another $50, for my friend to pretend he was buying them just one round of drinks for the hell of it.
i'm starting to think that if you just gave birth, you are contractually obligated to post on facebook 10 million photos of your baby wearing the same expression and/or writing at least 10 status updates per day about him/her and nothing else.
It's not just good sense, it's The Law.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Posted by a girl on my son's wall:
Hey boo i miss yewww like honey bunches of oats yew rele needa get on ur fb and check yo message well godda go ♥ yew boo boo bye=p
I didn't think you would see that. 
Oh man.
I don't know if I should ask if you are okay or laugh, Alecia.
Nah, the kid's awfully happy to finally get attention from the ladies, so I'm happy he's happy
That shit is hilarious. <3 yew boo boo! lol
Haha, that's funny Alecia.
Damien, that's ME!
Yeah I told the world by proposing high on E at a Rave then getting married like they used to do in the old days.
Side note. I have an old friend on facebook who just talks about how much she loves her new boyfriend and how she is pregnant by him with her 4th kid now.... she just got divorced less than a year ago. And she's like 5 months pregnant by this new guy. I feel bad for her ex.
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
My parents didn't let me choose what I ate BUT when my mom was pregnant with me, she allegedly ate a diet that was almost completely made up of McDonald's (no other fast food or homemade substitutes) plain cheeseburgers. I assume she didn't do it to be a brat but because everything else in the world made her vomit because why else would she do that to herself? And yes, I've apologized to her.
Now she hates McDonald's and all burgers and also cheese. Although I'm sort of made of them, I'm not the biggest fan either. Except for cheese. I like cheese.