Day Forty-Eight, 2025

 Mushrooms

Not the magical kind.

I am trying to eat.like mushrooms and have the kids eat them as well but J is positive that he doesn't like them.  I'm very sure he doesn't like the way his family used to prepare them (like the liver and onions that my father used to love) so I like to believe that I can find a way he will enjoy these very healthy things.  The way I want to be able to enjoy them.

Additionally, if he tried to feed me things he wanted, example veggies burgers and onion rings all the time I would likely spazz or begin to lose weight.  BUT mushrooms are healthy (I tell myself) so it isn't the same.... except it is.

Sure I've been right about recipes he hasn't wanted to mess with in the past and yes, when he's had health issues and told the dr's things I've said he's been told I'm right but does that give me the right to force feed the man mushrooms?

No it doesn't.

Also, I don't want to cook two meals and he can always just make himself a veggies burger....

I know we've both got good points.

I hate the way he's always reacted to food he doesn't like being placed on the table especially in front of our kids who then think they don't need to try new things.

I am aware I'm not a great cook - which is why I use recipes when cooking for others and only experiment on myself like when I was younger and I would make up 'recipes' (mostly involving chocolate, and often resembling rabbit turds).  The thing is I don't just want to try things we know we like I want to mix it up.

After tonight, if I know it's a shared meal I need to leave the mushrooms on the side as an option - dang I wish I could be right about this one.  Chefs choice 

Side note; I may be cranky because it was windy and sooo cold for today's 'fire ceremony' and only myself and two kids participated.  Plus J may have made fun of a vision exercise I tried to take the kids through...

On another day I would have laughed along - didn't happen today though.

I swear the mushroom recipe wasn't planned - but I guess it's a 'coincidence' that I chose to include them instead of leaving them out... 

Tomorrow I will make better meal choices for sure; since I'm having dinner out with a work sister - Jeff will be able to avoid my experimenting until Wednesday.

C

Action VS Grief