Posted on 07/03/2023 2:53:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
While most parents may stick to basics when feeding their toddlers, professional chef Jack Zhang, 31, was determined to make sure his son Levi was going to be an adventurous eater.
To ensure the now 2-year-old was not going to grow up fussy, Zhang started feeding the baby dishes fit for the most refined palate as soon as he could eat solid foods — and now has an appetite that could rival a grown adult’s.
Little Levi’s expansive menu already includes lobster, scallops, ratatouille, pork dumplings, cauliflower puree, quick-pickled cucumbers, radishes, microgreens and flying fish roe (tobiko), his proud dad said. “The mindset is for him to not be always picky and to try a bunch of different foods,” said the New York-based cook, who is married to 28-year-old Emily, an English professor.
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Yum.
5.56mm
Because eating bologna sandwiches is easy after getting used to lobster. Oh, wait.
After all we are just digestive tracks with some facilitating muscle, organs, and other matter outside of it.
Actually that could work.
I hated all that stuff when I was a kid. If they forced me to eat it for long enough, I suppose I’d learn to not be a fussy eater if I didn’t want to starve.
The toddler has a d-bag for a daddy?
Life is going to be hard for that child.
My 3 year old isn’t anywhere near that adventurous about food. It’s not for lack of trying to get him to try new foods. My Mom says there wasn’t anything I wouldn’t eat when I was a child.
I ate lobster once...because I was young and starving while in boondock Jamaica.
No Mcdonalds no nothing...
The jerk chicken stands were pretty good though.
We have a teen that will eat any seafood or red meat. But won’t touch pizza, sandwiches, or pasta. We didn’t necessarily push any foods, but that is how he ended up. Kids are weird…no predicting if this chef’s approach will work or not.
I sometimes had to mash or cut something up but I was not going to cook a special meal for one member of the family.
That is how you get a picky eater.
If so, cover the lobster with melted cheese.
Heck, I'd eat it...
Here's Lobster Mac & Cheese -
I encountered my daughters to at least try everything I prepared or ordered out. They were good sports about it and like a wide variety of cuisines. Although one still uses too much ketchup.
Lol. Encountered, not encountered.
Lobster not in a buttery toasted hot dog roll at a small restaurant on the coast in New England, is hardly worth eating.
Is this really that unusual? When I was growing up, there was one choice as to what to eat. That was whatever was put in front of me. The same was true with my children. I eat just about everything and so do my children.
Why not top it off with a fine Chardonnay?
Right? I ate plenty of Bologna Sandwiches when a toddler. I won’t eat them now.
And there are foods that I hated then - but love now.
Feeding a kid lobster will make no difference in his future tastes.
So what
Most people feed their kids what is on the menu
“The mindset is for him to not be always picky and to try a bunch of different foods,” said the New York-based cook, who is married to 28-year-old Emily, an English professor.
Picky eaters? Do what my mother did. Give them a choice.
“You either eat this. Or you don’t. Your choice.”
I applaud this.
I have 7 grandkids and 5 of them exist on chicken nuggets and FF.
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