I perfectly understand how hard it is to teach the child to eat right. When we say eat right, we mean following the food pyramid with fruits and veggies often. I should be proud to say that when my kids started with solids, I have always given them veggies on every meal. It became a daily habit to eat vegetables and have been a weekly inclusion in our market list.

When I started to work again, I noticed that they have been eating less and less veggies and have always been so fond of fried chicken and our local dish “adobo”. That’s when I came to realize “oh yes, I was always leaving the kids to my mom”. Unfortunately, my family members are not vegetable fans. They have been meat lovers ever since and that’s when the kids started hating veggies too. When they don’t want the dish at home, my mom would always come to the rescue preparing “meals” that can be eaten by the kids – hotdog, fried chicken, adobo. I started having arguments with my mom about the kids’ meals.

For us parents, it is our priority to get the kids to eat the right food. Primarily because we wanted them to grow healthy. I just don’t understand why my mom would always argue with me about it. She’d always say she prefers that the kids eat something than nothing at all. And my stand, they’d eat if they have nothing to eat but veggies and they have to be taught. So in my household, I always ensure we have veggies on the table during meal time. To be able to teach the kids to eat right, the parents should set good example. I don’t like veggies but just so I can show the kids that it is indeed the healthy meal, I have to set a good example.

Then I started researching for some vegetable recipes while doing another research on instant life insurance quote. I need to have variety of dishes that they will surely love. That way, they’d be fond of eating – and I mean eating healthy.

I haven’t been so fascinated about dinner plates when I was young and still single. But now that I am a wife and a mom, I always wanted to redo the kitchen and make it something I can be proud of. And then I started looking at some nice sets of kitchenware online and saw these wonderful and elegant looking dinnerware from Pfaltzgraff. I have been looking at this one for a couple of minutes and I really really liked it. I was contemplating on whether buying this one first instead of the laptop that I have also been wishing for this Christmas. This will be some kind of a tough decision since hubby is also focused on buying the laptop.

Hmm, how do I tell the husband that I wanted this set? Guess, I have to tell him I’ll be able to have a wonderful presentation of all the dishes I will cook from now on. Then, I will start collecting food recipes and study how to do each of them so he’ll not regret of ever buying these dinner set. Oh, how I wish he’ll give this to me.