Things I Do That Would Give Kid Food Instagram a Conniption

ICYMI this week:

Following on from Tuesday’s foodwork diary, and Ethan’s breakfast for dinner, I thought it would be fun to talk about the things that you’ve decided to let go of when it comes to feeding your kids. Like where you’ve thought about something and decided, this is not a hill I’m going to die on. The kinds of things that Kid Food Instagram would have a conniption about. Or someone at The Guardian Intensive Feeding Standards desk would write an OpEd about.

Take, for example, the other day when Avery went into the kitchen and helped himself to a lollipop before we’d even had breakfast. I quickly made the assessment that I did not have the fortitude for this particular battle. Besides, I figured it would only make the lollipop into a BFD. He ate his lollipop, then had breakfast, and we moved on with our day.

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It’s not that I never push back on these kinds of things. Another day this week he went to pull something out of the snack drawer and I said, ‘hey do you think we could eat what I’ve already put on the table for you?’ and he was chill with it.

But there are a lot of things I do (or don’t do) that would send Ellyn Satter or KEIC disciples over the edge. AND, I bet you have some too. I want to hear about them in the comments. But first, here are more of mine.