"Ranée at Arabian Knits" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> "Julie Bove" > wrote:
>
>> Anyway... People used to laugh at us because there was a kid eating
>> salad.
>> They acted like it was something strange. I was brought up eating salad.
>> We had it at every meal and even at restaurants, my parents ordered us
>> salads. They usually didn't come with the kid's meals, if there were
>> kid's
>> meals. Not all restaurants have kid's meals.
>
> How odd. Our children almost all love salads. The littlest ones
> have a harder time with them, but we usually give them a tiny bit to
> pick through and they do alright. I think it's more of that training
> children to eat children only food and defining that as junk.

When she was little I let her eat them with her hands. There was no
dressing so it wasn't messy.