over 30? you grew up eating what adults ate. now kids eat chickn fingers. pizza. mac n cheese

[NickB79]

59. My 4-yr old eats what I eat, or she doesn't eat

Just the other day she was telling me how delicious the baked pork/cabbage/chipotle pinto bean taquitos I made were, as she dipped one in sour cream. Or how she loves my shrimp-corn-potato chowder with homemade French bread, or my homemade chili, heavy on the beans and homemade salsa. She steals raw cabbage, kale and red peppers from the cutting board when I'm not looking, and can't get enough apples or green beans from the backyard in the summer and fall.

When she spends weekends at Grandma's, though, it's all canned corned beef hash, boxed mac and cheese, and Chef Boyardee. And then, because she's not borderline obese like so many other kids these days, and she's half Hispanic (where the social ideal is apparently plump kids that break a sweat when they run more than 20 feet), I get hell that she's not eating enough from my mother-in-law even though she's the perfect weight per our pediatrician.

Meh, I'll keep feeding her healthy foods as much as I can. She asked for her own garden plot this summer in the yard to grow herself a salad, and loves collecting eggs from our chicken coop for breakfast