{"id":13538,"date":"2012-07-12T02:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T06:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/?p=13538"},"modified":"2012-07-07T11:36:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T15:36:00","slug":"such-a-picky-eater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/2012\/07\/such-a-picky-eater\/","title":{"rendered":"Such a Picky Eater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hey there Sweet Shoppers! \u00a0Hope everyone is keeping cool and enjoying the summer! It&#8217;s Tronesia here with my first post as a Sugar Babe and hopefully <em>someone<\/em> can relate to my dilemma. \u00a0My only child is 4 years old and is an extremely picky eater. Our family has been trying to eat healthier food and try new things for dinner at least once a week. It never fails that every time she refuses to eat over half of her food. She will at least taste it, but I have to make a game out of it.\u00a0The one thing that she does love &#8220;most&#8221; days is spaghetti (the girl changes her mind so much..lol!). \u00a0I did a little searching and found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skinnytaste.com\/2010\/06\/skinny-italian-spinach-meatballs.html\" target=\"_blank\">a recipe<\/a> for Italian Spinach Meatballs for us to try out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I followed the instructions exactly for the meatballs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the pasta sauce, I used the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Del Monte tomato sauce<\/li>\n<li>Del Monte diced tomatoes with basil, garlic &amp; oregano<\/li>\n<li>Classico sun-dried Tomato Pesto<\/li>\n<li>Seasonings: \u00a0oregano, basil, garlic powder, black pepper, sea salt, onion powder<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 Onion (not chopped &#8211; from the recipe)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tronesia-ssdjuly122012.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-13543 aligncenter\" title=\"tronesia-ssdjuly122012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tronesia-ssdjuly122012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tronesia-ssdjuly122012.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tronesia-ssdjuly122012-242x300.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now, I do not really use any specific measurements when added the seasonings or pesto. I taste as I go and it depends on how much spaghetti I plan on cooking. Every now and then I make a big pot of it and freeze individual servings in sandwich bags for quick dinners later in the week. Back to this spaghetti dinner- I did do one thing differently with the meatballs, which was to cook them in the oven. I tried to do them over the stove according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skinnytaste.com\/2010\/06\/skinny-italian-spinach-meatballs.html\" target=\"_blank\">the recipe\u00a0<\/a>, but that was just not working out for me. Exactly why I am not a chef &#8230;.lol! \u00a0Some things I just am not good at, so I put the meatballs in the oven until they were nice and brown. For the noodles, I used Ronzoni whole wheat\u00a0spaghetti\u00a0pasta and boiled them in water with olive oil and a sprinkle of basil.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And&#8230;.it was such a wonderful surprise that this was delicious! I am not a big spaghetti fan but this was so good! The Parmesan cheese\u00a0and the spinach mixture in the meatballs made them good enough to eat by themselves. I will definitely be coming back to this recipe very soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Do you have ideas to share about your picky eater? \u00a0Any successful recipes you have made for your picky eater? \u00a0Please feel free to link me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey there Sweet Shoppers! \u00a0Hope everyone is keeping cool and enjoying the summer! It&#8217;s Tronesia here with my first post as a Sugar Babe and hopefully someone can relate to my dilemma. \u00a0My only child is 4 years old and is an extremely picky eater. Our family has been trying to eat healthier food and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":13547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13538"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13551,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13538\/revisions\/13551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}