Sometimes You Have to Stop Trying
I have to admit, it's my own fault. I'm the one who has always absolutely insisted that Alexis try foods before deciding she doesn't like them. I am also the one who has always insisted that she keep re-trying the foods because taste buds change.
Normally, her willingness to cooperate with the rules serves her well. If she takes one bite, she's off the hook. She can say she doesn't like something and can compensate with another item off her plate. There's no pressure, no yelling, no fighting, just "did you try it yet?" followed by her trying it, then being able to be done with it.
Sometimes it REALLY works out for her because she discovers that she has changed her mind. I can't even begin to count the number of foods Alexis has initially said she doesn't like only to later discover that she does. Hard-boiled eggs, chocolate, risotto ... countless foods started out on her "do not like list" and moved to her "YES, PLEASE!" list.
So she's an eager tryer outer of foods, even foods she already knows she doesn't like.
Enter hot chocolate.
Hot chocolate has been on the Do Not Like List for a long time. Forever, actually, if we're talking Alexis years. She has never, ever liked it. She started out trying it annually. Annually was fine.
Now she has escalated. Now she's trying to like it weekly. Pretty much weekly she asks to try some hot chocolate. Just about weekly I give in and buy her or make her a hot chocolate. Just about weekly she takes one sip and is all I DO NOT LIKE THIS EWWWW.
Which, the hell? How can anyone not like hot chocolate?
Whatever.
I have wasted a ton of money on that whole willingness to try thing. So much money that I want to take back that rule, even though it's a good rule to try things.
But not hot chocolate.
So someone please remind me that hot chocolate is fired and Alexis is not allowed to try it ever again.
Monday, January 20, 2014
Reader Comments (6)
The Howler could take or leave hot chocolate. Until someone discovered K-cups of it...we now hide the cups because she makes her own now, which apparently makes it taste even better!
Boy Child at the ripe ole age of 10 STILL does not like hot chocolate. He keeps trying and we keep throwing it out. Have used whipped cream, marshmallows, k-cups - you name it - he still doesn't like it.
I don't like hot chocolate, I don't like warm drinks in general, except warm apple cider. 2 of my 4 kids don't like hot chocolate either
This sounds like my mom. Alexis just really, really wants to like it. My mom REALLY wants to love lasagna. She loves the ingredients, she loves the idea, she loves the look and smell of it, HATES the taste/texture. She knows better than to order it or make it at this point, but tries a taste every time someone else has it, then makes the same horrible scrunched-up-yuck face. It's actually become a really funny family joke.
Have you tried white hot chocolate? Dove makes a really nice spiced one (available from a Dove rep)
My 3 year old doesn't like hour chocolate either, but tries, because his almost 5 year old brother loves it ever so much.
You can make your own mix with dry milk, cocoa powder, powdered sugar and dry creamer. It's pretty easy and I like to give it as presents
One of mine loves it....one wants to. So she gets to try a bit of her brother's. I love this link....http://www.kitchentreaty.com/two-minute-hot-chocolate-by-the-mug/. If she decides it is a og, I can get hers in a jiffy.