New Foodie

Baby girl is now officially a foodie.  At her last doctor’s appointment we got the go ahead from her pediatrician to begin her on solids when we thought she was ready.  She must have understood the doc because from that moment on she began to get stronger and stronger.  When the girl began to eye down anything and everything anyone was eating we decided we should start feeding her soon before she began a plot to feed herself.  

"He was a bold man that first eat an oyster." ~Jonathan Swift

So for the past week or so she has been eating her big girl food.  Well... maybe not big girl food but a bowl of mush definitely counts for something.  Rice mush with some sort of vegetable puree all mixed together.  She loves it!  So far she hasn't found anything she doesn't like. .  

"Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public.  It's too controversial." ~Erma Bombeck

Currently she doesn’t have much say as to what or how she eats.  We strap her into a chair and give her what we want to give her.  But over the next few years she’ll begin to develop her own eating habits.  Sure, I hope she develops healthy eating habits and enjoys nutritious foods but those aren't the habits I’m too concerned about right now.  Instead of wondering what kind of weird quirky habits she’ll develop.  

"I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting." ~Andy Rooney

Will she...  

• demand that her food not touch other types of food?
• eat everything with only a fork?
• eat her plate in order of least favorite to favorite or will she start out with her favorite item first?
• become a vegetarian?
• will she develop trichophagia and compulsively eat hair?    

"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." ~Oscar Wilde

Everyone eats and everyone has some sort of habit attached to their eating.  I did a Google search for odd eating habits and found a few weird celebrity examples:

• Steve Jobs once tried a fruit and veggie only diet in hopes that it would allow him to stop bathing.
• Ronald Reagan didn’t eat a tomato for 70 years.
• Michael Jackson used to have granola, almond milk, fruit juice and a tank of oxygen for breakfast each morning.
• Claudia Schiffer eats nothing but fruit before noon.
• Elvis once flew 800 miles to eat his favorite sandwich.

"I won't eat anything green." ~Kurt Cobain

The holidays are a great time for eating. Enjoy your sugar cookies, honey baked ham, tiramisu, fondu, and all of your other family favorite recipes.

"My idea of fast food is a mallard." ~Ted Nugent

Enjoy... Happy Eating!