Berta and I are dismayed at the types of food that Abby will eat. This article will likely prove itself as historically useful for when Abby is older.
These days, Abby’s favorite food is the griled cheese sandwich. We try very hard to convince her to eat other things, but she isn’t very interested in that. Whenever we go out to eat, it must be someplace that serves grilled cheese or we risk the tantrum that accompanies the lack of adequate food choices.
Abby will often eat macaroni and cheese, but not the kind that comes from a can. She will not eat mac and cheese from Wawa, which means it probably comes from a can or is prepared in a similar fashion. She will not eat mac and cheese that contains tomatos (Sound weird? Dice a small tomato and try it!), but she will cover her mac and cheese in seasonings if given the opportunity, and then not it it because it is too spicy.
Abby does not eat spicy foods. Spicy foods often have some extra sugar or salt - not any particularly spicy spices - or are carbonated. Soda is not a drink that Abby enjoys, and she often questions my worth as a human for drinking such a vile concoction.
According to Abby, milk is the coldest drink on the Earth. Colder than ice water, in fact. Abby will often attempt to drink gallons of milk instead of what food we feed her for dinner that is not a grilled cheese sandwich.
I saw Abby eat a hamburger once and nearly died of shock.
Abby enjoys hard candy, but not sugary foods. She will not eat breakfast cereal that is frosted or has similarly high sugar content.
Abby’s favorite meal is breakfast, where she has the widest variety of food that she enjoys. She will eat pancakes and waffles, which should not contain sweeteners, but will sublimely dunk them in a vat of maple (not blueberry) syrup. Eggs are iffy.
To our surprise, Abby eats sausage. At breakfast is the best time to serve her sausage. She will also eat pizza, reluctantly, if it has only sausage, and she will occasionally pick it off.
Pizza, a staple food of children with teeth, is not a food Abby will ask for. Nor are hot dogs. French fries mike make it past her censors.
When eating rice, Abby will seek out the buttered rice - indeed, the solitary butter pat still melting in the rice - to eat before anything else. But do not put butter on a peanut butter and jelly sandwich because that makes it taste bad.
Abby thankfully enjoys most fruit, although it is easier to get her to eat peaches than apples, and really, who can blame her?
Of the vegetable variety, Abby is quite selective. She will eat broccoli - 100%. Green beans - 80%. Peas - 20%. Red Beans - 0%. She used to like sweet potato, but this Thanksgiving she turned it down. I’m not crazy about sweet potato, so I let that slide.
Trying new foods is an activity that Abby will not partake in, especially if the food was once a living thing. Berta and I have changed our hair color to a more gray tint attempting to convince Abby to try meat, vegetables, and even desserts.
Cake is a dessert that Abby enjoys. Or rather, cake icing is a dessert that Abby enjoys. Thankfully, Abby has great taste in ice cream.
Abby does not eat that much, and I constantly wonder if she’s getting enough of what her body needs. I think we talk to her about eating good foods too often, because she will often ask why a particular food is good for her body.
Still, she doesn’t like pizza. What’s that all about?
As far as the other kid goes… Riley eats everything.
