Food, glorious food

I thought I should give a short mention about food. Or more specifically, Aimee’s personal food preferences. At the moment, Aimee enjoys her pasta and rice. You can feed her almost anything, as long as it is coarsely mashed up with her boiled rice, or her pasta tubes. This is great because we can add new flavours and textures sneakily. Her real favourite is pasta shells with beef bolognase, but she’s enjoyed chicken, fish and vegetarian versions. Although you can feed her a sultana or a yoghurt, Aimee doesn’t really go for artificial sugary sweet things. Thanks goodness! In fact, she seems to be developing a taste for sour things. I found this out when I was offering her a handful of ‘Special K’ cereal and she ignored the flakes and munched instead on the freeze dried red fruits. These are so sour! I actually discard them when pouring out a bowl for myself, but Aimee loves them in excess. I doubt there is any nutritional value in them having been so highly processed, but it keeps her quiet.
The other day, we realised that suddenly, she did like grapes. On previous attempts, these were rejected out of hand. But now she loves them, especially red grapes. However, the King of all fruits, for which Aimee will scream blue murder unless she gets it – PEAR. Yes, the humble conference pear, once ripened and then chilled, is pure nectar to Aimee. She loves it so much, she will even eat the core (once Daddy has extracted the pips). I even caught her munching on the stem the other day. A ripe pear is incredibly sweet, but I think it is the taste and texture she loves, sine pear juice doesn’t elicit the same response.
We are sure that Aimee’s tastes will change yet again over the coming years. My friend Dai recalls the terrible time he had with his two-year-old as she began to exert her power by refusing ALL FOODS. This is common I hear.
I wonder what foods our next baby will like?