The beginning of the end

Eat or Starve was born of desperation. With the wide-eyed wonder of new parenthood, I remember faithfully researching the best food to be your child's first food. I researched the best gadgets to make the most nutritious, organic, non GMO, etc etc foods for them to eat in puree form. I remember the anticipation of watching their beautiful little faces light up when they first tasted avocado, and spit it immediately on my shoes.

Picky eaters will slowly erode your belief in "healthy" and "nonhealthy" foods. There are calories and there are no calories, there are good eating days and not good eating days. When your picky little eater falls off the growth chart at their doctor's appointment, you find yourself wondering if maybe you could switch your kid from whole milk to half & half.

Eat or Starve is our correction from the craziness of being a short order cook; from accommodating the whims of tiny little people prone to rapidly changing whims. It is the realization that part of raising the geniuses of tomorrow is helping them learn to eat whatever is put in front them, because they don't serve chicken nuggets or mac and cheese at State Dinners or the Nobel Prize Awards. Eat or Starve is our mantra during meal time now.