Plus, did anyone else have parents who gave you something and if you didn’t eat it… well then you just didn’t eat? My parents were also timer setters. Ha-ha.

Parent’s buckle in way too easy these days. I saw/see the following happen with my much younger siblings, nieces and nephews and friends with kids:

*Kid cries* – “Ok, here’s your Lunchable or Ramen noodles [insert any other frankenfood]. Shut up now.”

I’ve been eating relatively strict primal for a year (and on-off since years ago, actually when Ray Audette got that book out) and never been so healthy….
and curiously my mood is very different now, I don’t recall if you ever did a post on that topic but my whole mindset has changed going from a very fatalistic pessimist angle to someone who literally laughs at cartoons…it’s like my head got rinsed out too.

I’ll practice your tips and will be back with news.

While I don’t have kids myself, I grew up as one with three younger brothers and then there’s the slew of nephews & nieces, now.

What I think is that hunger is probably the most powerful human drive, and we don’t allow ourselves to exercise and experience it very often. I once saw a news magazine program where some child-eating disorder experts cam into a home where the kids would eat nothing but junk like burgers, hot dogs & pizza and would throw a fit unless they got it. Inside of two weeks they had the kids eating spinach & brussels sprouts. How?

1. Food was only served at mealtimes.

2. All food was pretty much real food.

3. All the kids were offered everything, but were free to eat whatever they wanted, leave what they didn’t, or eat nothing at all with no pressure either way.

4. If hungry, they had to wait to the next meal, repeat 2 & 3.

5. Don’t make a big deal when they do try to sample something. Let them judge for themselves.

Now, 20 months is probably far too young for something like that, but you might experiment with delaying a meal or feeding a few hours, or skip a meal altogether so she gets a good hunger going, offer only meat, and see what happens.

Let us know.

Anyone who wants bash of my diet or personality… put your money where your mouth is and make the information about your train wreck diet (that you think is perfect) available for public viewing. Come back and put a link on Richard’s website so his thousands of viewers can see how full of crap you really are.