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Picky Eaters

I think if you "hide/sneak" the nutritious food within what they will currently eat....why would they or how would they ever know to try the nutritious food on their own when they are older? They are never going to believe that you made them eat vegetable purees!! As long as they are eating at home and not at a fast food place...it is bound to better for them even if it is mac and cheese or grilled cheese...they aren't getting all the grease and massive portions of super sizing the meal. A bowl of cereal is better than fast food hamburger and french fries.

Give them vitamins and save yourself the extra step of cauliflour puree for the simple meal of mac and cheese...hahaha

tswickey at 8:17AM on 10/11/07

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Alcoholic Bugs?

I was infested with these nagging little creeps myself so I sat out several bowls of sugary liquids hoping to drown every last one of them however this only made them multiply by the hundreds!!! They were everywhere...the message was out...it was a fruit fly feast in my house....so I discovered the more stuff I laid out the more flies I had so after cleaning the kitchen and the rest of the house like a wild woman and not allowing any food of any sort to be left out they disappeared. There was not anything for them to dine on so maybe I starved them to death???? I still get a few but at least my house is clean! note..I never put the plastic wrap over my bowls...will try that next...or the vacuum idea..I am laughing already at what I am going to look like chasing a microscopic fly around with a vacuum hose!!

tswickey at 8:03AM on 10/11/07

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Picky Eaters

I think picky eaters are the result of 2 things - neither of which is attained at birth. 1) If parents pick their food apart, their children will think this is normal behaviour. Picky eaters beget picky eaters. 2) Young palates hyper-taste things like bitter flavors so broccoli tastes like rubbing your tongue on the floor. When I was a kid I couldn't eat broccoli, cauliflower or scallops. I couldn't eat any pickled vegetables. I enjoy all these things as an adult. As a kid, they didn't get halfway down.

chiff0nade at 8:19PM on 10/13/07

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Alcoholic Bugs?

Also, make sure that you leave no standing liquid around - not even droplets of water in the sink, and cover all your booze: fruitflies can even eat fumes.

zapatista at 2:12PM on 10/12/07

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Alcoholic Bugs?

kmnola and Dominic have the methods! The pinhole into cidar vinegar works very well, and to get rid of a sudden infestation, the vacuum is *the* tool to use. I find certain produce tends to carry fruit flies home. Peaches are the worst. Sometimes they live in soil, too, so if you have a lot of house plants, check there.

Kelly Spitzer at 12:51PM on 10/11/07

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Picky Eaters

as a kid I was a picky eatter, my mom never cooked anything special for me or forced me to to eat everything on my plate. But, watching the adults everything made me rethink my habits and want to try things I had never tried and thought I would hate. Now there are very few things I refuse, I may not care for certian foods, but, I usually at least try them. Including things like lamb eyes. Parents, stop making special kid meals, give them a flintstone chewable, and dont make a big deal about what they wont try, in time, they will.

huney_bumper at 9:14AM on 10/11/07

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Alcoholic Bugs?

Thanks everyone! This is all very helpful!

K at 8:38AM on 10/11/07