{"id":396,"date":"2007-06-03T22:19:26","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T03:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/wordpress\/?p=396"},"modified":"2011-05-28T20:53:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T19:53:46","slug":"a-meat-eater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2007\/06\/03\/a-meat-eater\/","title":{"rendered":"A meat eater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThis weekend we offered Ingrid some baby food with chicken. She accepted it with great pleasure, and ate with more enthusiasm than she has shown towards my lovely vegetable pur&eacute;es recently. I have given birth to a meat eater!\n<\/p>\n<p>\n(I have been a vegetarian for almost 15 years now, and Eric well over 10 years. I may eat a piece of fish occasionally, especially when we&rsquo;re abroad and vegetarian food is hard to find, but that happens maybe once a month on average.)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe chicken smelled kind of gross, actually&#8230; I don&rsquo;t think we&rsquo;ll be buying that again any time soon. She can eat all the meat she wants at the nursery, but I&rsquo;m not going to let any of that stinky stuff into my house if I can help it. This first time was only because the nursery staff will not experiment with food: they won&rsquo;t feed her any kind of food that she hasn&rsquo;t tried before. Now that she has tried chicken, she can eat some of their standard lunches. Once we&rsquo;ve tried fish and pasta at home, she&rsquo;ll be able to eat most (if not all) of their baby menu.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI wonder why she liked it so much, though. Possible explanations:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nThey put some mysterious addictive substance in the baby food, that isn&rsquo;t on the label. Like sugar.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nShe just likes meat.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nShe liked the more complex flavour. That jar contained more ingredients than three of her home-made meals do together.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nShe liked the spices.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nI think it may be time to get a bit more adventurous with her food. Mix it up, add some spices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend we offered Ingrid some baby food with chicken. She accepted it with great pleasure, and ate with more enthusiasm than she has shown towards my lovely vegetable pur&eacute;es recently. I have given birth to a meat eater! (I have been a vegetarian for almost 15 years now, and Eric well over 10 years. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[745,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food_and_cooking","category-ingrid_johanna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2899,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/2899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}