Different Tastes

Dear Connor,

I cooked sausage, bean and barley soup for dinner tonight and when I was cleaning up the table after everyone had finished eating, I noticed that you had eaten everything except the cannellini beans, MuiMui had eaten everything except the carrots and DiDi had eaten everything except the sausage.

You like spinach ricotta ravioli but not butternut squash ravioli. MuiMui likes butternut squash ravioli but not spinach ricotta ravioli. DiDi doesn't like either and just eats the outer pasta part of the ravioli, leaving the filling.

You eat pasta with tomato sauce. JieJie and DiDi eat pasta but not if it's covered in tomato sauce.

You and DiDi enjoy grapes, applesauce, oatmeal and peanut butter. Your sister hates grapes, applesauce, oatmeal and peanut butter.

MuiMui and DiDi both eat strawberries, oranges, pineapple, yogurt, string cheese, cashews, pistachios, corn, cauliflower, shrimp and California rolls. You won't touch any of that.

Gaaaaah. Meal planning for three kids with three very different palettes is. A. Huge. Pain. Sometimes, I just want to give you all cereal for dinner and be done with it :-P

Love,
Mom