Hasta La Gadget!

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What’s for dinner? Well, the adults are having roasted chicken and lemon couscous with asparagus and tomato. Billy’s having macaroni and cheese because that’s literally all he’ll eat this week … uh, month. Maddie’s having a pepperoni Hot Pocket, the only kind she’ll eat, but we have to remove the actual pepperonis or she freaks (we can slip a tiny bit of asparagus inside if we’re really sneaky and disguise it really well). And for Timmy the 3-year-old? Tater tots. With a side of ketchup.

Sound at all familiar? Many of us find ourselves playing the role of short-order cook to satisfy the picky eaters in our house. We’ve given up on healthy (forget about getting anything green into their little bodies) and cater to their demands out of desperation just to get them fed.

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