I had a lovely dinner. Teaching our kids about food.

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I found some Brussel sprouts in my fridge so I steamed some and then I added a bit of butter. They were delicious. Later on I´ll eat a piece of cake but not now. I still have the wonderful taste of the sprouts in my mouth. I have discovered that people either love or hate Brussel sprouts. There is nothing in the middle. I love them and have loved them ever since my mom made them for company and there was some leftovers for us, kids, the next day. When I was a child I did not like much the normal food we HAD to eat and not leave a crumb on the plate. Along generations I have heard mothers say the same dumb sentences to their children so that they would eat their food. They talked about the poor children of (there the part of the world would change) and how they did not have food to eat. I think that when my children were small, I used Biafra as the poor place. I still don´t know where Biafra is and my kids couldn´t care less. I learned a bit when I was a grandmother. Instead of saying that, I told the children to eat 4 spoonfulls of whatever the dish they did not like was on the table. If they did not like it after trying it, I had something else for them to eat. Usually it was a favorite such as pasta with pesto. It was a much better idea. How did you make your children eat? I heard of a boy that was on hot dogs for about 4 years until he himself decided to try something different.