my children will not eat meatloaf to save their lives, but if I make meatballs that are EXACTLY the same thing, only smaller, they scarf them down like they are starving?
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It is one of the great mysteries of mankind. My husband is precisely the same way.
My daughter won’t eat spinach but loves italian wedding soup. She asks “whats those green leaves floating in my soup?”. I answer “vegetable leaves”.
She loves vegetable leaves…..
Go figure.
Krick
Kids really are funny, my daughte is the same way. For a period of time she wouldn’t eat hamburgers but loved “sloppy joes” so when I fixed hanmburgers for dinner I would crumble hers up and add Bar-B-Q sauce.
You know what? Now that you mention it, *I* like meatballs and not meatloaf too.
What’s up with that?
My kids will eat shepherd’s pie, which is a layer of minced beef with mashed potato on top and browned in the oven, but try them on mince with a dollop of mashed potato next to it on the plate and you’d think they were being poisoned!
Must be the shape. I too prefer to eat small round things to slabs.
It’s the old kreplach joke: http://fetchmemyaxe.blogspot.com/2006/06/and-now-kreplach-joke.html
You mean the day might come when my kids will not be grateful for every meal I prepare them?! That sucks. I think I’ll feel pretty dejected the first time Normy looks at me as says, “Ewww! I’m not going to eat THAT!”
Children like things in small sizes. And one for each hand.
It’s the same here.
Well, maybe it’s time try it again… see if they are changed. LOL!
It’s one of the unwritten kid rules: food that looks like a toy or comes with a toy always tastes better.
I dunno – but it’s the same way at my house.
More meatloaf for me, I always say.
kids are such a mystery. If you figure it out, let me know.
Blessings,
Karla
Try baking your meatloaf on a cookie sheet. Just use your hands to shape it into a mound and call it a giant meatball!
Or bake it in the loaf pan and slice it before serving- tell them it’s meatball slices!
Good Luck! I have three kids ages 15, 13, and 10 and it’s taken me this long to figure out how to feed everyone so that no one is complaining at the table. Well, it’s not really that they’re all happy- I just outlawed the complaining
My kids are exactly like that because they’re crazy. I’m sure there’s a different explanation for your kiddos
It’s the size thing. Finger foods always seem to work better.