So our fae has … interesting eating habits. That is to say, if she eats, then she has interesting eating habits. She has habits similar to a snake, in the way that she exists.
She will eat her own body weight one week and then for the next month live off air and water. It’s most frustrating. If she is going through a growth spurt I can’t shovel enough into her to satiate her appetite. I may have mentioned my frustrations with her diet before once or twice (or every other post). But recently she has driven to new heights of frustration with her new habit of wanting only one type of food at a time.
So, from November to January she would only eat dahl and rice. She completely depleted our stores of the stuff. I then went through the agony of making three fresh batches because the first wasn’t the right texture, the second the wrong shade of beige, and the third was the last try at remaking the original. She wouldn’t even touch them. It was soul destroying. I just managed to make some she would try when she decided that what she actually needed to eat was potato waffles.
So February every meal was potato waffles. She initially wanted it served with a fried egg (that she would ignore) but she would only eat potato waffles. This month, it’s porridge. She has three or four bowls of it a day.
It’s driving me insane, despite the reassurances of the dieticians and school that she is fine and obviously gaining enough nutrition from somewhere (I’m beginning to suspect she is some sort of coral and is relying on a plant symbiote to sustain her through photosynthesis). I take comfort that if you average out everything she has eaten since the beginning of the year, it IS a balanced diet.. she just does it in blocks of a few weeks rather than on a day by day basis. Better than nothing right?
Raising the Modern Fae 