The only sandwich Niko will eat is peanut butter and jelly, which he calls a jelly sandwich. Which makes packing his lunch a challenge. I want to pack him something he'll eat -- it's a long day that would only feel longer if he's hungry. At the same time, I want to try to push him to try new things and accept them, and I don't want him to get to the point where all he will eat is white bread with the crust cut off.
First things first: the peanut butter. I refuse to feed the kids any of the name brand peanut butters out there. While they are made with peanuts, there's an awful lot of sugar and other stuff in there. Instead I only buy organic peanut butter, which is just crushed peanuts. And sometimes I mix it up with almond butter or soy butter or honey roasted peanut butter. Niko has never mentioned anything about the taste or texture being different. But when I tried to give him cream cheese in place of nut butter, he refused.
The butter isn't the only thing that changes in Niko's sandwich. In fact, I make sure his pb&j is different every day. I mix up the bases -- white/wheat bread, wheat pita, flour tortillas, graham crackers, Saltines, Ritz. I've even made a pb&j-s on waffles and pancakes.
I also vary the J: Strawberry jam. Grape jelly. Apple butter or jelly. Orange marmalade. Honey. Fluff.
Endless combinations. Endless options. All eaten by my picky eater.
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I do understand the picky ones. Both my boys went through a period where they would only eat peanut butter sandwiches in their school lunches.
I would take a couple slices of white bread, cut off the crusts and then flatten the bread. The bread was spread with peanut butter and rolled up like a jelly roll. Then sliced.
It was time consuming but worth it to get them to eat.
They also would occasionally want the small stick pretzels with their lunches. These they would only eat if each pretzel was threaded through Cheerios.
They are now adults each with a child of their own. I'm often tempted to plant the seed and whisper in their child's ear of what their father used to eat.
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