[mikester]

My 6 year old has almost gotten to the point where about the only thing he will eat is something peanut related!

Peanut butter sandwich (no jelly)

Peanut granola bars

Peanut butter pretzels

Sometimes, he just wants a gob of peanut butter.

Now, I like it as much as the next person but too much of a good thing...

In the morning he its a normal variety of stuff. At dinner he usually eats what we put in front of him (though it can and has been a struggle).

But now during the day, at lunch I'll send him apples in his lunch, he asks for apples in his lunch and today my wife comes up from dropping him off with 3 containers of apples that haven't been eaten!

I'm just ranting a bit here...

Today's lunch was a peanut butter sandwich, with some cheese puffs (pirate booty) and for snack I made him some apples and peanut butter pretzels and for his TLC snack he requested a peanut butter bar and something else...

PEANUT BUTTER!!!!

ARGGGGGGGGG!!!!!

I'm contemplating taking peanuts out of the equation entirely for a bit but that may be an over reaction. I'm sure he's just trying to exert some control in some aspect of his life. My #2 problem with all this is when he doesn't eat what I send him, he wastes my money and I like my money. I work hard for my money, I don't have an endless supply of money. I'm just sayin...

Wife is pissed!

We have decided he's 6, he's old enough to talk to us about this food wasting craptasticness...

The other one, the 2 year old eats whatever I put in front of him.

The other night we were having sausages and I like mustards - nothing hot really, more of a dijon or yellow mustard lover and the boy had a sampling of each of the mustards we had in the house. I also enjoy korean food and sometimes the little one will even try the kimchi I'm eating. He loves rice vinegar on his rice. He'll try ANYTHING, it's great. #1 however...want's nothing to do with anything that isn't peanut or ketchup covered.

I know, I know it's just the way he is and his sensitivities are what they are - I don't want to punish him for that. But he has GOT to work with me here...