Success

Since my last post Junior has metamorphosed into a child who will try anything. This sudden turnaround has been as welcome as it has been unexpected. The only explanation I can find for her change in attitude is because with Sean being away most of the time in Volos, I’ve been saying how lonely it is eating on my own with no-one to talk to and how much nicer it would be if we could sit down together and share the same food. Well, whatever the explanation, it’s worked and she is now prepared to try everything I put in front of her. She may not eat it all but at least she’s trying.
The potato I was going to try her on last time went down moderately well in the form of mashed potato (which is my ultimate comfort food), although the carrot with it went down even better of course. I’m pretty convinced junior is part rabbit! When Sean returned from Volos he witnessed junior putting a homemade vegeburger in her mouth without first forensically examining its entire contents. She just picked it up like she hadn’t been a complete foodie nightmare for the past 3 years’. Sean’s convinced that she’s been swapped with another junior but I don’t really care as long as I can keep this one!
Last week she was off all week with a stinking cold so I didn’t try and push too many new foods on her as I didn’t want her getting any more upset or whingeing at me any more than she already was doing. In situations like these you have to fall back on the old favourites like carrot, except this time I made it into a soup. Just what you need when the weather has turned a bit cold and miserable.

Very wholesome and nutritious and so successful with the small one that I’ve bought her a thermos flask so she can take some soup to school for her lunch. Less successful with junior was the marrow and tomato and the mixed vegetable stew with rice. To give her her due she did try both of them, no point blank refusing like she used to do only a couple of weeks ago. I’m still in a state of shock as to this dramatic turnaround so I suppose I shouldn’t get too blasé in case the old junior returns!