My Gorbulas is like the only picky eater I have produced. He only likes cereal and peanut butter and jelly. Oh and meatballs. But they have to be my homemade meatballs, not the frozen ones from the supermarket I tried once because he says they "make him want to throw up". Fair enough. Mine are much better it's true.
If he were my first or only child (or both), I would probably spend my time worrying about his diet and cooking special foods around him. I would probably also assume with his history of colic, asthma, and now this that he has a peanut butter and most likely some sort of wheat allergy. However, I am too tired and busy to bother. So I cook what I like and when he sits there and whines, "I don't yike this" I say "too bad, eat it or go hungry".
I am not always a horrible mother though, and I try to accommodate him at times. So a few days ago I made him Peanut Butter and Jelly Muffins for breakfast. We rarely do cereal because it is too expensive for the amount of people here, and not that filling considering. You can purchase flour, eggs, milk, and oats for nearly the same price as a big box of cereal, yet you will get a week's worth of more filling and nutritious meals. The problem is Gorbulas wakes up at the crack of dawn reciting the same monologue: "I want cereal, I want cereal", so the challenge is to preempt him with something besides cereal that he will eat.
When I saw the recipe, I cropped it up as "kid fodder". You know, food you feed kids but really have no desire to eat yourself like graham crackers, boxed macaroni and cheese, American processed cheese food that come in those individually wrapped slices, and plain Cheerios.
No, these muffins were much sexier than regular kids food. They were really good.
Matthew looked at them and said "I don't yike them."
"No, look, you will like these"
"Oh, they have jel-lee!"
The kids fought over them.
I need a second muffin pan because soon I will be making two batches of muffins in the morning.
