Big and Strong

As a kid, I don't ever recall being encouraged to eat whatever was put in front of me. My mother was such a wonderful cook and everything, no matter what it was, tasted so good when she prepared it. I still don't need any encouragement! LOL
 
My mother always spoke of half starved Armenians. Later in life I dated a boy whose family was originally from Armenia and when I asked his mother about this she said my mom must have been referring to the Armenian genocide in Turkey during the Ottoman Empire.
 
"Langendorf builds strong bodies 12 ways."
Or....was it "Weber's?"

My ex wife tried to make me eat "Wheaties" before bed.
 
My father just put a tablespoon full of whatever I didn't like and told me I had to eat it because it was good for me, and pretty soon I would like it. Cooked turnip greens were one thing, and fish of any kind was another.

I fed the fish to the dog and put the greens in my napkin to throw away later. Never got caught. Still hate fish and cooked greens. Still don't believe in acquiring a taste for any food since there are so many I like that are readily available.
 
No one had to tell me anything. I just ate. Mom used to tell everyone, "Our boy is eating us out of our house and home." From the time that I left 6th grade over the summer and when I went into 7th grade, I grew 3 1/2 inches over that summer and gained 22 pounds. My dad thought maybe I had broke the "Guinness Book of Records." My dad really enjoyed reading that book.
 
We were 'forced' to eat lots of vegetables in order to grow up strong and healthy. Well, can't say it worked. But, I do love almost all vegetables, so it paid off. Thanks, Mom!
 
JaniceM said:
Yup, I'm with you on that.
However, the subject of Caroline Kennedy was often mentioned- "CAROLINE KENNEDY eats all HER vegetables!"
:cautious:
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I remember one of my sons sitting in his highchair at the supper table one evening, eating peas on his plate one at a time and seemingly enjoying them. Everyone cleared the table and I left dear son in his highchair while I started tiding up the kitchen.

When I seen dear son was done, I stood him up in his highchair, took a damp cloth to his hands and face, lifted him down from his highchair, and carried on with kitchen cleanup.

A couple of hours went by and it was time to get dear son ready for bed. Unbeknownst to me, dear son had filled his pants with peas! I swear for every pea he ate that night, he shoved two down the front of his diapers.

As rubber pants were being pulled down and off, out rolled green pea after green pea, and the peas that didn't survive the adventure had turned to mush and were stuck to the inside of the rubber pants! What a mess!
 
Aunt Marg said:
I remember one of my sons sitting in his highchair at the supper table one evening, eating peas on his plate one at a time and seemingly enjoying them. Everyone cleared the table and I left dear son in his highchair while I started tiding up the kitchen.

When I seen dear son was done, I stood him up in his highchair, took a damp cloth to his hands and face, lifted him down from his highchair, and carried on with kitchen cleanup.

A couple of hours went by and it was time to get dear son ready for bed. Unbeknownst to me, dear son had filled his pants with peas! I swear for every pea he ate that night, he shoved two down the front of his diapers.

As rubber pants were being pulled down and off, out rolled green pea after green pea, and the peas that didn't survive the adventure had turned to mush and were stuck to the inside of the rubber pants! What a mess!
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When one of mine was little- around 3 yrs old- he stuck a pea up his nose! THAT was a scary experience!!
 
JaniceM said:
When one of mine was little- around 3 yrs old- he stuck a pea up his nose! THAT was a scary experience!!
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OMG!

Heart-attack city! I've heard stories of such but have never experienced the panic in my day.

What did you do, Janice? And was baby crying and panicking, too?
 
Aunt Marg said:
OMG!

Heart-attack city! I've heard stories of such but have never experienced the panic in my day.

What did you do, Janice? And was baby crying and panicking, too?
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Fortunately it wasn't up too far, so I was able to pull it out with a safety pin. All I could think to do was instruct him to not inhale!!!
Nope, he was the quietest, calmest child on the planet- never upset about anything- a characteristic that's useful now that he has children of his own!
 
JaniceM said:
Fortunately it wasn't up too far, so I was able to pull it out with a safety pin. All I could think to do was instruct him to not inhale!!!
Nope, he was the quietest, calmest child on the planet- never upset about anything- a characteristic that's useful now that he has children of his own!
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I don't know about you, but it would have been instant panic city for me!

Did you keep your cool? If you did you were a better mom than me! I would have been freaking! šŸ˜²

LOVE the safety pin idea!!! I would have been digging up the poor kids nose (with who knows what) if it had happened to me!
 
Aunt Marg said:
I don't know about you, but it would have been instant panic city for me!

Did you keep your cool? If you did you were a better mom than me! I would have been freaking! šŸ˜²

LOVE the safety pin idea!!! I would have been digging up the poor kids nose (with who knows what) if it had happened to me!
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Yes and no.. I was calm on the outside, kinda panicking underneath.
I didn't have a phone at the time, but figured if I went to call paramedics he could have inhaled it and choked while waiting for them to show up.
 
JaniceM said:
Yes and no.. I was calm on the outside, kinda panicking underneath.
I didn't have a phone at the time, but figured if I went to call paramedics he could have inhaled it and choked while waiting for them to show up.
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You did great! WAY better than me!

I remember one of my baby sisters swallowed something, or my mom thought (was convinced) she swallowed something, so over the course of days, mom went through every one of her dirty diapers wearing rubber gloves, to look for whatever it was that mom thought she swallowed. Nothing turned up.

With my own kids and even when I used to babysit, that's one thing I was always on top of, little things that could be swallowed. Used to worry sick about it. When I changed diapers, I always set the safety pins well out of reach of the child, and as for small toy and play things such as Lego building blocks, etc, I didn't allow my kids to play with that sort of thing until they were older.
 
I have 4 boys and a girl. When they were teens the boys would drink a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread made into PB&J sandwiches at one sitting.

I would buy 5 lb of ground beef, add a couple cups full of oatmeal to stretch it, make that into a meatloaf, prepare a 5 lb bag of potatoes for mashed potatoes, and there were never any leftovers.

My kids learned to eat fast so they could get seconds before anyone else did. They would use a mixing bowl to pour their cereal into, and use most of the box and a quarter of a gallon of milk for their breakfast.

one regular size (not snack size) bag of potato chips would be a side for just one of them to accompany 3-5 bologna and cheese sandwiches.

They are all between 6ā€™ And 6ā€™3ā€ and even back as teens were sturdy and muscular, not overweight just really solid.

They ate me out of house and home! We were poor so I bought and prepared lots of potatoes, beans, rice, cheap hamburger meat and ramen, not a lot of fruits and veggies, and everything in jumbo sized packages, no single serve anything. They are healthy in spite of their poor diet growing up thank god.
 

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