Ah, life with a toddler.
Our three year old refused to try these delicious apple and cottage cheese pancakes from Mollie Katzen’s classic Moosewood Cookbook
So I said, “Don’t eat them! Don’t take a bite! Don’t even think about it!”
And sure enough she gobbled them up!
Sigh.
Hey, at least I know it (sometimes) works, right?!
Aren’t kids the funniest? Mine gobble their food right up whenever I do this, too!
My mother used to warn me that the neighbor’s cat would come along and eat right off the fork. She’d look “away” and have me “look” in the other direction to see if that cat was coming to steal the food. It worked every time–that darn cat ate the food right off my fork.
At at five you’ll still be using these trick. Then, school starts and the “I don’t like” becomes contagious. So we came up with this answer: what are you? You are a Fahmy and Fahmys eat EVERYTHING! The teacher in school tells me she tells this in school to her friends at the table.