Sunday, July 22, 2007

The Food obsession

We've become obsessed with food...now more so than ever.

My wife and I always liked good food, we would try new dishes at home and we'd hit new restaurants just to get a sample of new dishes that we could try. However, it's now that we have a child that we've become even more in tune with our eating habits and our diet.

My daughter is now eating solids as of April, 2007. It's been great! She eats whatever we eat (puree'ed mostly) and she has a reaction to all new kinds of tastes. Mostly, she's happy to eat though as she'll take in broccolli, peas, sweet potatoes, fruit, chicken soup, salsa, etc.

Here's the rub though: now that we're so busy feeding her we don't really get to enjoy our own dinner. Getting food in her becomes somewhat of a battle between making sure she likes it to trying feed her in between her hands swinging around as she display her happiness or plays with her blocks. The food ends up everywhere: on her, on me, on the floor, on the carpet, on the sofa. It's a blast but quite the mess.

My wife has even written an essay as we thought about the good parontha's that her mom would make (and still does that we pack and take home with us). Here's the article.

In short, life has become about eating...less time to do it but more fanfare around it.

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