Personifying Food
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I’ve spoken before about my picky eater… and was essentially harrassed about my parenting skills. But whatever… that’s not going to stop me from writing about him again.
For those of you who commiserated with me, here is a little trick that typically works for us. I like to call it Personification of Food. In this particular case… Octodogs. Hotdogs cut to look like octopi. I actually even found a little gadget online that allows me to do this quickly (sold on some bento-supply site).
I cut the dogs in half, create the legs and toss them into boiling water. Within a matter of minutes the legs begin to curl up… bringing to life the Octodog. A little food coloring for the eyes and mouth and viola! Though, sometimes the 4-yo only wants to eat the legs… stating that he won’t eat the faces. Solution? Candy sprinkels for eyes… there’s no way they can resist.
Last night, I sliced the a hotdog into coins and then used a very small star-shaped cutter to the cut each disk into a star. The 4-yo gobbled them up telling me that “star-shaped hot dogs taste much better than regular one”. And what about the scraps? He ate those as well… surprisingly.
Personification of food is done quite often when creating bento boxes. It’s cute, fun and seems to work.
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What kind of hot dogs do you use? We haven’t ever given hot dogs to the kids since we only eat turkey, chicken and fish, but I suspect tofu dogs would work…? Just don’t know if they taste any good.
I totally get the picky eater issue. And totally get that it does not, in any way, appear to be parenting-skill related…and my doctor and several other specialists agree.
The only way I could get Nate to eat a sandwich when he was a toddler was to use cookie cutters on it. Then he would gobble it right up.
Last night Nate, for the first time in his 5 years, tried pasta with butter. I was amazed he tried it on his own. And then he said, “Oh, I’ve like this since I was a baby like Quin.” I couldn’t believe it! Like I had been withholding it…
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Hey Rebecca! Good to hear from you! It’s nice to hear that we are not the only ones struggling with this. Chance is exactly like Nate! I only use ONE type of hotdog: Jennie-O Turkey Dogs. They are hands-down the best!
We should talk more about the whole picky eater thing! My pedi told me if he is still picky at 3 (which was a year ago) that expect him to stay picky until 6 or 7. So, hopefully you should slowly be winding down in the next year or two…
hi tammy,
cool hot dogs. hot dogs are a staple in our house. I will have to check out the Jennie-o dogs. We eat oscar meyer here.
My sister who is about to be close to 40 yrs old is still a picky eater. Just keep trying different stuff. kids are like dogs, they eat when they are hungry. (for all the people that will read this and write nasty things about kids and dogs, I am a Veterinary technician, it’s what I know, Tammy is in no way responsible for my comments.)
octodogs in purple soup at my house this weekend.