Mood eater

I've come to realise from the past few months of cooking for rabbitprincess that she's very much a 'mood-eater' which roughly translates into "she eats depending on her moods". During the first week of school holidays, she came down with a severe viral infection that had made her lose her appetite. As she was on path to recovery, I kept explaining to her that when she's well again, she must not be so fussy about eating only a small selection of food which makes her nutritionally imbalanced and more susceptible to viruses when her immune system is weak and she can't enjoy her school holidays like other kids. Now that she's much better at end of week 2 and beginning of week 3, I can tell she's trying very hard to consume a wider variety of food - eggs cooked in various styles, minced pork steamed with carrot bits and finely chopped water chestnuts, stir-fried vegetables of various sorts, steamed fish, sliced shitake mushrooms etc aside from her usual repertoire of toast, milk, cakes, cereals, eggs and foods familiar to her. I was elated to see her chomp down freshly made pancakes, scrambled eggs with cheese bits and a mini pastry during a buffet breakfast last week.

However, on days when she's unhappy (for whatever reasons) or disappointed or upset, she'll not eat well. Instead, she will tend to throw up the food she ate. That's when it gets really frustrating cos as parents, we naturally start to worry if she'll get gastritis if she goes to bed with her stomach half-empty.

Well, I do hope her moods remain good for the next few months and hopefully, she'll gain some weight soon!