I always get excited when I find a new food Alex will eat. Generally Alex will eat cheese, peas, diced peaches, mac n cheese, sliced ham, banana chips... But more often than not a great majority of his food ends up on the floor rather than in his mouth. But this week I discovered two new foods that Alex will eat. Not just eat, but devour, leaving not a morsel.
- Pirate Booty
- Refried Beans
Pirate Booty is just puffed rice and corn with white cheddar flavoring. They taste like Cheeto's Puffs to me. Alex ate almost an entire bag of Pirate Booty all by himself this week before he discovered that the puffs are fun to mush up. Still though, he eats his fill of Booty before making Booty mess out of it.
As for refried beans, it never occurred to me to give Alex refried beans until this week when I took him out to lunch. I got him chicken strips and myself a bean burrito that came with chips and beans. When my lunch arrived, Alex, who was standing next to me in the booth (there were no available high chairs) declared "YUM!" and began grabbing my chips, which I expected. He's always liked corn chips. What wasn't expected was when he began dipping the chips in the refried beans. Scooping up bean goop and slurping it off the chip until the chip got so soggy he had to trade it in for a fresh one. He ended up cleaning my plate of beans, leaving a soggy stack of corn chips on the table. Today I decided to see if it was just a fluke. For lunch I gave him a big glob of refried beans on a plate with a spoon. He went to town almost clearing his plate, the entire time murmuring "num num num" in between spoonfuls.
Each time Alex leaves a meal with a full tummy, I feel like I've won a small battle in the "Picky eater" war. Today, with Alex's belly full of Booty and Beans, I feel victorious!
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