My lunch on Saturday was a bowl of tomato soup with two slices of fresh crusty bread.
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With my children already sitting at the table eating their sandwiches and carrot sticks, I too sat with my soup and bread. I hadn’t even bitten into the first slice of bread when one of my children asked for some of my soup.
I got another bowl, decanted some of the soup into it and passed it to my eldest boy. I picked up my bread to try for another bite but before I’d moved the bread even an inch, he asked if he could have one of the slices.
These were the last two slices in the house, but it’s my son, so I gave him the bread. On the bright side, I still had another slice left.
He was happy – and that made me happy.
I’d managed to get a few spoons of soup down my gullet along with a couple of mouthfuls of bread when a little hand reached across and started to drag my bowl of soup away from me. It was youngest daughter who got busy spooning the soup into her mouth.
She was happy – and that made me happy.
Now all I had left was my slice of bread. The last slice.
Not for long though. As my daughter watched her brother dipping his bread in his soup, she obviously thought it was a splendid idea and held out her hand for my bread.
Sigh
Off I went to the cupboard looking for a healthy choice. I thought I’d do the decent thing and eat a handful of mixed nuts and raisins.
Nope!
They were gone. I assume my wife had the same idea and took them to work.
I assumed that she was happy – but I was hungry 
In the end it was quite pitiful as I went scavenging food from my children’s plates. A soggy half chewed crust here, a gnarled saliva coated carrot stick there.
I quickly lost my appetite.
If meal times continue this way I’ll have washboard abs in about two weeks. I’ll also be badly malnourished and in danger of losing my teeth.
Meh!
In other news….
Ive lost 3lbs this week, Pop Culture Cartoon Boy has lost an impressive 5lbs and Mrs Sticky who is the best cheerleader for Daddy Bloggers that I know of, has maintained – all the details are over at Blog To Fit. Speaking of which, it’s about time that Potty Training Help Guy fessed up to the state of his physical condition. He’s floated in and out but has been reluctant to reveal his six pack abs to us.
On another subject entirely, my last two weeks have been blighted with trying to fix my slow running site so I haven’t stuck to my posting plan. I’m not sure that I’ve fixed it yet but it seems to be better?. Thank you to Matthew Dryden up-and-coming writer and spoken-word poet for offering me some assistance – and Matthew, I may still need your assistance.
Thank you also to Patricia at Patricia’s Wisdom who, whilst helping individuals create a positive life change, helped to give me a lift when I needed one. 
Thank you for reading. 
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Damn it. I may have spoken too soon. Do me a favour, let me know if you get slow loading please.
Thanks,
Dave
Loaded fine for me
Regarding your post, you have great willpower, if K nicks my lunch, I end up eating a packet of crisps and some biscuits. I really must try to behave.
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Loading was fine for me!
I like the names in a sentence you’ve given everyone (pop culture cartoon boy! He he – he’s going to LOVE that!)
I’ve had the same thing with the children eating things off my plate too. I usually use it to introduce new foods that they would never ever ordinarily try if I put it on a plate in front of them, but when it’s on mummy’s plate, well, tastes a whole lot different doesn’t it!
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Teeth are like totally overrated.
I fessed up on Blog to Fit as requested and thanks for the poo poo text as well. You’re awesome and one!
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No problems with loading here, either.
And my kids eat all the nicest things on my plate. I think it’s part of the programming for kids.
Thanks all.
I’m having some horrendous problems connecting. Internal server errors and the error log is telling me it’s the same problem I thought I’d fixed.
Kids snitching can be a heck of a diet plan. Soon you’ll be hoarding your food like a squirrel…
I’ve been able to get to your site MUCH faster today than in a good while.
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The Internet service guy has not arrived yet this morning so it is probably me, but I could not get your post to load at all. I had time to get up and mosey into the kitchen for a cup of tea.
I am headed to that fit stop in a minute.
My kids never ate off my plate, unless it was to steal my piece of chocolate. If they took bites or tastes one always made an awful face like how could you even think of eating that! I think my eating differently helped 2 become very good cooks and 2 out of 3 very healthy eaters. #3 is starting to think about healthy eating.
I looks like one child left your food alone? You must make good choices!
Thank you for the shout out! Glad if I gave you a lift
Thank you for this good post – it is delightful
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Thank you for the updates. I’ll be back with some responses later. I’m still digging around in the guts of the thing. It seems to be a permissions problem with index.php. What I didn’t know is there’s more than one index.php. So far I’ve found three and changed the permissions. Hopefully that’ll do it. Please keep reporting loading speed. Thanks. Dave
Yep, that’s the great weight loss plan all right. I never get my whole bagel with schmear unless the kids are at school. And it was my secret plan for getting them to try new food when they were younger. I would fix whatever-it-was, put it on my plate, and wait for the invasion. If I put it on THEIR plate first they would give it the stink eye. But on MY plate, it was luscious, fabulous, stupendous!
Someday, they will outsmart me. But not yet.
And we will want to see a pic of your fab abs…
If you can’t get on here, does that mean we can run riot at your place and rifle through your underwear drawer and phone Australia and watch Home and Away and pinch all your food . . .
Oh, someone’s already done that. And we’ve already seen your underwear.
Pooh, it’s boring over here now. I’m going over to Blogger Dad’s place. He’s offering dinner and a show . . .
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tag – you’re it Mr F
back soon to comment properly. byeeeee xx
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Pop Culture Cartoon Boy? a) I’ve been called far worse and b) I kinda’ like the sound of that!
Site loaded fine for me.
As for your post, man, you need to go shopping! Tell me, do Brits put crackers in their soup? I LOVE tomato soup with a bunch of crackers in it! Or do you guys put something weird in there like some people actually put mayo on their french fries! (stops to vomit)
site loaded great for me today with my new server….phones don’t work yet! but they are coming back! Thought I should let you know
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Thank you kindly for suffering on through the connection problems. I think it’s much better now but the error log is still showing some errors, so I know I haven’t solved it.
I’m going to try uploading the newest version of Thesis and see if that solves it.
Thank you for the reports. I’m grateful.
Dave.
Tawny
Hi Tawny! Crisps are delicious but I won’t have them in the house for exactly that reason. If they were there I’d eat them!
Tara
Cartoon Boy was very nearly Carton Boy. Lucky for me I picked out the typo. I’m frightened by his rages. Hehehe. Hey, and your sly with the plate trick! ^5
Writer Dad
It’s my pleasure. It’s a great product and I’m going to get busy raving about it soon.
Robert
I’ve noticed that they do indeed go for the nicest things first. And once they’ve eaten that item from their plate they start scoping the other plates. They’re not daft are they?!
Avlor
I can see it now, burying my food next to my nuts, or walking round with food in my cheeks.
Patricia
If chocolate were on offer my children would take it out of my mouth, never mind off my plate. lol
It great that you taught your kids to cook. When my own are ready to leave it’s a skill I really want them to have.
Mrs. C.
I have to ask…. What is ‘schmear’? The very sound of it makes me laugh – as does ‘stink eye’.
I’m embarrassed to say that on occasion my children have outsmarted me.
…and if I get abs there’s no way I’d be hiding them away. You’ll have to look at them whether you want to or not. Hehehehehe.
Tara
Yeah buit Blogger Dad won’t love you like I do. Oh yeah, he’s all there with the romance now, but once he’s had a glimpse of your frillies he’s onto the next chick. The dude is a Bird dog. You have been warned.
Mom/Mum
Thank goodness!!! Woooo Hooooo. This means I can pay you back the one I still owe you from last year. A twofer!! I’ll get onto it ASAP!!
Blogger Dad
I knew you’d like your new name. Sean liked his and Tara’s not complaining about being a cheerleader, although obviously she can no longer stand on the top of the pyramid. And I think her pompoms are a little weather worn these days.
Crackers? In soup? What kind of peasant are you?
Depends what sort of crackers they are. Prawn Crackers, Cream Cracker, Underpants (colloquial). But if it’s any of those, then no, personally I don’t. Croutons though. That’s a different kettle of cheesy whotsits.
Patricia
You’re getting there with the technology now. You’ll be fully wired up soon enough.
Good morning to you, Dave! “Schmear” is what one of my college roommates referred to cream cheese as, and after you live with someone for a year certain things just stick. For example the nickname “Keghead”, which also came out of that year…
Now, Underpants crackers?!? I’ve heard of Goldfishies but never underpants.
I never get to eat anything I really like when I’m with my eldest! I have to eat whatever I want him to eat, or there will be nothing left on my plate for me! My youngest doesn’t know better yet:) And using that as a trick for getting him to eat veggies (or red meat! My kid is weird) does NOT WORK… he just picks out the good stuff… But I’m going with dr. Phil’s opinion that if you keep putting it on their plate they will eventually start eating it… I’m still waiting, thanks.
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If I am not mistaken, that’s an actual coined term at Einstein Bagels. If you want cream cheese on your bagel, you ask for a “schmear”.
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Mrs. C.
“Schmear” is just such a funny word. There’s something slightly wrong about it but I can quite figure it out.
Adrenalynn
Regardless, I think his idea is a good one, we’ve been doing to for seven years now and it works.
I have no idea who Dr Phil is. Is he even a real doctor?
GreenJello
Seriously? This is a real term? “Schmear” sounds ever so slightly unpleasant. Maybe there’s an association buried deep in my mind? Maybe Dr Phil could help?
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That’s funny. I think you and I posted similar thoughts back on the 28th, totally coincidental.
A bunch of Nigella Lawson pictures loaded before your site came up. That took a long time. But it was worth it.
It leapt out at me that you’re having problems with a slow running site. I’m in Scotland, and my computer whizz pal said he’s beeing doing jobs all over the country and EVERYONE has been complaining about slow computers, regardless of their ISP’s. Just thought I’d let you know as we found this out AFTER my husband spent hours cleaning out, defragmenting and a whole load of other stuff I don’t really get. ~Janice
Hi Dave
Firstly -your site seems to be working fine – loading at normal speed for me here in Australia. Secondly and more importantly a big catch up hello from me. Yes I still occasionally lurk around the internet although not very often these days as I am working full time and studying part time.
Next time put some brussel sprouts in the soup and then you won’t have to worry about the kids pinching your soup.
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