We have been having major issues with Riya and eating lately. Some nights, she will not even touch her dinner and she will go to bed "hungry" because we won't offer her any other food until dinner has been eaten. She very rarely ever says she's hungry though. This has become such a source of frustration that I've thought about taking her to a doctor to get checked. I've heard the thing about "she won't starve - if she's hungry, she'll eat" but when she has gone an entire day eating only a few bites from her cereal in the morning, we start to doubt it. I was given some advice to have her cook with me and then she might be more excited to eat it. She LOVED helping me cook but still didn't touch it. UGH!
SO - tonight, we had thai lime chicken, broccoli and fried rice. I was cautiously optimistic (and hate wasting food) so I gave her two pieces of broccoli (these were the whole pieces so they were pretty big), enough rice to fill that smallest part of the plate and some cut up chicken. I told the kids that they were giants and they had to eat the trees and sand (rice) all gone. Jayden decided the cut up chicken was going to be houses. Riya ate all of it - even giggling most of the time she ate!!
She was the first one done with her dinner! I had to take a picture for proof! YEA!! (Let's hope she keeps it up!!)
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