An aversion to green beans
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- March
- 4
Nutrition and good eating habits are my husband’s concerns. When my children were young, I was more concerned that they have a proper and set bedtime. I guess that’s why it’s nice to have two adults in the house if you have the option.
That’s not to say that nutrition and proper eating habits are things I ignore. I just don’t sweat most of that. Kids won’t eat peas? I’m not fond of them myself. I’ve never insisted. They either eat them or they don’t. Mostly they don’t. Neither do I.
My oldest won’t eat green beans. I put them in a very nice vegetable soup I make from scratch that she loves and eats for lunch, but she always eats around the green beans (sort of the way my husband eats around the cabbage. They often trade bowls when they eat together).
After yet another eye-rolling session during a weekend lunch, she illuminated the issue for us. When she was 5 and hospitalized for asthma, the nurse brought her lunch and said that she’d get a shot just as soon as she finished her green beans.
My daughter decided that perhaps the green beans weren’t all that desireable. The nurse insisted that she eat some of them, “just a princess bite” before she got the shot.
I believe the shot happened whether a bean or two was eaten, but I have all sympathy for a green bean aversion in that case.
Not that I’ll stop adding green beans to my soup. I like them and I’m the cook. I’ll just keep the memory of my oldest and my husband trading bowls in one of those places we keep endearing family stories for later blackmail.
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on Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 at 12:45 pm by Randi Weiner.
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