Anyone with a toddler can relate to this ...

MrsEditorJax · June 2011

(even though my kid is the one who WON'T eat macaroni and cheese)

This ran in the Longview paper last week, by one of their columnists:

To My Dear Children,

First off I want you to know that I love you. What I'm about to tell you may be hard to hear but please, know that it's only because I love you that I made the choices that I did.

Over the years you've made my life rather difficult when it came to feeding you. You put me through the macaroni and cheese diet where all you would eat was boxed macaroni. For all three meals.

Then one of you decided to become a vegetarian but refused to eat any vegetables, only bread, sweets, and the occasional banana.

This must have looked really appealing to one of your siblings because soon after, he declared himself a vegetarian also and ate only cinnamon toast and a few chicken nuggets thrown in for good measure.

We gave up trying to explain to him what a vegetarian was.

Then there was the no-chunks phase, when if a chunk of vegetable was found in any food on your plate, it was immediately fed to one of the dogs when I turned my head.

Can you see how your behavior pushed me into a corner? Is it any wonder I had to resort to covert measures to get some nutrition down you?

Someday, when you get married and your spouse asks for your favorite childhood recipes, you're going to be a little, um, surprised at what is really in them. But I did it for your own good.

And when you have children of your own who refuse to eat the healthy food you place in front of them, I hope you'll remember your favorite treats from your own childhood and carry on the tradition. And that would be the perfect time to call me and apologize.

Sincerely,

Your Loving Mother

And here is the link to see the recipes:
https://tdn.com/lifestyles/article_1bbc147a-8c6c-11e0-964f-001cc4c002e0.html