My goodness. Its been over a year since I blogged. That’s embarrassing!

So things have changed. Just a little! With the addition of a now weaning baby boy in the household, I have had to go back to the old drawing board, and once again, I am thrown into a world of sugar and salt free, honey free and baby friendly. It’s hard to even know where to begin to start with all the different demands that come with 3 kiddies.

Thankfully, My eldest child, also my fussiest, has begun, slowly, to exit the fussy phase and is emerging through the other side. It has been a very frustrating process but we are getting there bit by bit. My younger daughter, thankfully, remains far less fussy and happy with her food and veggies. We live in hope that my son will be just as easy, but am prepared for what’s in store if he isn’t.

I’m not going to lie, however. There’s been a LOT of bribery involved in this process with unfamiliar foods and new tastes. But in the process, I have learned a lot. Loads in fact. Mainly that there is a lot of truth in the rule that if you put it on a child’s plate again and again and again, eventually, it will be eaten. It’s not a faddy rumour, it works. A few beans or peas here, a piece of broccoli there, nothing wasteful. Enough to acknowledge (or not) that it’s on the plate. But extreme patience is required.

With my eldest, I started to think and make mental notes of what she would eat, and how I could somehow adapt it to include something wholesome and nutritious without my child ever suspecting. There wasn’t a huge variety of food, so I had to make the best of what I could with her. I also had to be very careful of her noticing anything in case she stopped trusting me with what I put in front of her.

The first on the list was pasta…