Mealtime Struggles Quotes

As a father of two children, I am used to seeing kids in the midst of a five-alarm meltdown over the choice of DVD or the necessity of broccoli.

Tell me why it is that a toddler will gag over a perfectly wonderful breakfast of ham, eggs, biscuits, juice, and jelly. But then he will enthusiastically drink the dog's water and play in the toilet. Truly, he is his mother's greatest challenge...; and her most inexpressible joy.

Salad, I can't bear salad. It grows while you're eating it, you know.

It's wrong I think, morally and annoying in general, to try to get a kid to be a foodie, so I never even suggested, "Hey baby it's good, maybe you should try it." That never worked for me.

A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.

My brother Max is three and half years younger than me but more of a fussy eater.

All kids are fussy eaters - they go through phases where they'll only eat red food or they just want to eat porridge. With fussy kids, the best thing to do is use what they do like and work around it.

Lunchtime is hard when you don't have a lot of friends.

As cool as I want my kids to be, they're just like any other kid. They don't love eggplant unless it is covered in cheese.

I cannot cook to save my life. I'm really frighteningly useless, when you get down to it.