One of the more fool-proof, sure-fire ways of getting Spud
to eat her meals without fuss is to feed her Khao Niao, otherwise known as
Sticky or Glutinous rice, a staple in the Thai diet.
We have never introduced Spud to sticky rice before, and it
is not something we feed ourselves regularly with – if ever. And so, it came as
a surprise to us as to how she has grown to like it, and even to the extent of asking
for it.
It turns out that a few months ago, our Nanny shared that
she sometimes had to feed Spud her own lunch, mainly because Spud has been very
being difficult with food and refusing the food which I prepared for her.
Hence, out of desperation, our Nanny has actually offered
Spud some of her own Khao Niaos. Since
then Spud has fallen in love with it. She likes it so much that she would
actually be asking for sticky rice by saying “want shhhtickey rice” whenever we
ask what she prefers for her meals.
When all else fails when it comes to getting Spud to eat her
meals, plain white rice of a pack of sticky rice with some fried chicken to go
along with it would usually do the trick. We also realized that she eats better when we
give her a choice of food – be it for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
Somehow it works; although it usually takes us about an hour
to feed her.
Given her unusual liking for sticky rice, I now have (sometimes)
resorted to buying her a few packs of sticky rice from the street stalls over
the weekend as a back-up in case she refuses the food we have prepared for her.
Good thing that a pack of those usually costs no more than 20 or 30 baht! Those sticky rice can be quite a pain in the butt to make.
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