This week I've shifted my concentration to dinner rather than breakfast.
Monday - We baked a ham over the weekend to eat this week. We ate ham for dinner. We let Tyler have his with ketsup. He ate some but not enough. He also had apples, strawberries and chips. He was hungry at bed time and we let him have yogurt.
Tuesday - I made Tyler a smoothie for breakfast. All I had on hand was strawberries, bananas & almond milk. He doesn't like any banana chunks in the smoothie so I had to blend a lot. What is with kids and texture, sight and smell of food? He only drank half of it. If I can get him drinking smoothies I can sneak in spinach. Tyler also had a sausage biscuit. Olivia had sausage. She's so good.
For dinner on Tuesday we had Rotisserie chicken. Tyler ate 1 1/2 chicken legs, apples and I forced him to taste squash. Dad did an excellent job getting Tyler to eat the chicken. Tyler tried to get up from the table several times but Dad told him that if he didn't eat his "healthy" chicken then he would not get anything else before bedtime. (He is always hungry before bedtime. I think its because he's not eating much meat at dinner.) He had 2 small cookies and his yogurt for snack before bedtime.
Wednesday - We picked up McDonald's and visited the great grandparents. Nothing positive to say about dinner. Oh wait...the kids had apples with their meal.
Thursday - Karate night. Rush, Rush, Rush. Get home, get kids fed, get to karate practice. I left work a little early in order to feed the kids at home instead of getting fast food. I made them sausage, warmed up left over squash & served with fruit. Tyler didn't eat since he had gold fish when I picked him up because he was starving. I tried to give him bananas or beef jerky but he didn't want those.
Friday - Success!!! Tyler ate venison sausage. A very good sized piece. He had it with a tortilla. He did eat meat!!!!! Yeah!!!!
Saturday - Running on little sleep-went to visit family in the ER Friday night at midnight. My food choices are not logical today. We went to eat Italian with my sister. Pizza. We snacked on food around the house for dinner.
Sunday - I'm starting to stress out about Tyler's eating. I'm making bad food choices for myself this weekend and I'm not trying very hard with the kids. I start to feel sorry for myself. How can I get Tyler healthy when I spend so much time traveling each day back and forth to work? We don't get home until after 6 pm. I can't get everything done that I want to. I don't have time to cook meals in advance. I don't take time to play with my kids. I'm always busy. My grandparents want to eat healthier-I want to make meals for them. I want to spend time with them. I want to spend time with my kids. They are growing up so fast. I want to workout with my parents and teach them to make it a habit. I want to have cooking days with my Mom. My sister wants us to take the trips with the kids. When am I going to have time for all of this? My irritation is interrupted by dinner. Dad cooked sirloins and green beans. And guess what? Tyler ate steak and a bunch of it. He didn't eat the green beans but he did eat apples. I have to remember baby steps. I can't change Tyler's entire diet over night. Very slow small changes. That's all I can do. Tomorrow is a new day.
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