Eating Curiousity

Most kids have their own food issues at one point or another, and my kids are no exception. That's not the point of this post. For at least a year, there has been a different dining quirk at our house.

I always serve the same food on a plate to each kid per meal. Without discussing it or planning it out, they tend to eat the opposite food as the other. On this morning, they got eggs and toast. Grace ate her toast and didn't touch her eggs. Henry devoured his eggs and took one tiny bite of toast after my coaxing. One dinner this week was ham, rice and broccoli. Both kids ate broccoli (thankfully) but Grace refused to eat more than three bites of rice, and Henry gagged on his one bite of ham. Otherwise they cleaned their plates.

A favorite lunch at our house includes cheese, crackers and fruit. They both eat the fruit. Henry always eats all the cheese, and normally leaves a cracker or two. Grace is the opposite, leaving some cheese.

This happens at maybe 50% of meals. It's so weird. They don't always have the same food preferences from meal to meal, either, but they still eat the opposite food as the other. They're served the same food, but eat completely different diets.