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I HATE canned peas!

My mom wouldn't let me down from the table till I ate my helpin' of canned peas. Now what kind of nonsense is that? I HATED them! Would I make you eat something you hated? It was a power trip thing.

I usually would just sit there and cry.

Then I figured it out. I asked "Can I be excused?" "When you eat your peas." she'd reply. I'd stuff the entire helping in my mouth and then dash outside, spit them out behind a shrub. Or I'd say..."I gotta go to the bathroom." Stuff them in, spit them out in the toilet.

It was ridiculous. I don't do that to my kids. Gee, I spend 29 cents for a can of peas...they eat plenty of everything else I could care less if they don't eat the peas. I'm not forcing them to eat.

My mom has tried with Matthew...tried to make him eat spaghetti with onions chopped up in it and I gave her my "look" and said "Stop it." She was kinda mad...but she stopped.

I don't serve things that anyone in my family (Steve or the boys) finds revolting. It's easy to find things that we all like.

Funny though...I used to say "I'll never have a pea in my house!" Wouldn't ya know it...Joshua loves them.