Jill’s Blog

random rants and raves

This is one of the best pieces of parenting advice I know— never, and I mean NEVER tell your children what is in food before they eat it. If they rave about the food and ask for seconds, then maybe you can tell them after they’ve eaten it.

For example, you’ve made banana muffins. Under no circumstances are you to describe them as “banana” muffins— they are just muffins. Sometimes it doesn’t even matter if your child loves bananas— banana muffins may still be suspicious to them.

There is an exception to this. If your child loves bananas (or any other food) and will only eat bananas, then everything is banana.

“Oh, you don’t like spaghetti? But this is banana spaghetti!”