By Maji Hildreth
1) Green food dye. Every toddler
knows that green stuff is more fun to eat!
Grasshoppers, the lawn and dishwashing liquid, for
example.
2) Serve it a day old and cold!
Shape it creatively into a Teletubbie! Express
yourself!
3) If you really want them to eat
it, dish it out into the Barbie Grand Minivan or the
cat's dish. Now that's fun!
4) Pretend to sneeze it out of
your nose. Boogers are pretty neat when you're
little.
5) Spend an evening installing
small motorized gyrators in each shell. Make their
dinner dance and sing the Macarena! Okay, this may
take more time than you actually have but if you
really want five minutes of peace in the shower,
you'll listen to me.
6) Dinner in the tub! Kill two
birds with one, soapy stone!
7) Go to McDonalds and leave the
macaroni in the box.
8) Four words! Macaroni and
Cottage cheese! Yummy!
9) Hide the macaroni in an old
shoebox in the flower bed and let the kids dig it
up! Everyone knows things taste better when you dig
them out of the ground!
10) Allow the kids to preheat it
in the VCR. After all, that bologna must be getting
lonely.
11) Serve it in their hair. Most
of it ends up there anyway.
12) Make macaroni necklaces. That
way they can eat on the move.
13) Make it a candlelit macaroni
dinner! If they can't see what they're eating, you
might be able to sneak some brussel sprouts in
there.
14) First one to finish the bowl
gets that Pokemon card they wanted!
15) Cold macaroni snacks! A little
granola, some pasta, a few banana chips! It's a
healthy, crunchy bag of goodness!
16) Marinate the macaroni all
night in tequila. It won't be any fun for them since
they can't eat it but after you have a bowl, will
you really care?
17) Let them trick or treat for
their dinner! Shovel the macaroni into a bag along
with some peas and applesauce and it becomes a fun
holiday event!
18) Let the dog try it first.
Anything that passes the pooch taste test is
something toddlers are pretty keen on eating.
19) Get your neighbor to dress up
as their favorite cartoon superhero and tout the
many goodness factors of a well rounded macaroni
dinner while simultaneously juggling flaming
torches!
20) Tell them they absolutely,
positively cannot eat the macaroni on their plate.
You're not kidding. They can't touch it. Reverse
psychology, after all, is the clever mom's greatest
weapon.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Maji
Hildreth is the mom of four and a freelance humor
writer published both on and offline in various
publications. |
