Renaming food to get kids to eat? :-)

DS doesn't like certain things unless they are called something else.

I don't care as long as he eats.

Here are some of his:
A few days ago I asked him if he wanted dried cranberries - no. Yesterday my mom offered him RED RAISONS and he LOVED them.

No - scallops, yes - fish nuggets
No - perogies, yes - potatoe raviolli
No - tortalini, yes belly button raviolli

What about your DC's?

ETA:
Wax beans are yellow green beans and if we have them w/ green beans, the green beans are green green beans.

Message edited 4/26/2011 10:43:38 AM.

Re: Renaming food to get kids to eat? :-)

Broccolli = trees
Frozen yogurt = ice cream
And water = Elmo Juice (I pour it out of this container so he believes it's Elmo-approved):

Re: Renaming food to get kids to eat? :-)

DS is not the age where he would understand this yet - but when we were little, my mom used to feed us eggplant parm and called it "pizza without the crust" and used to give us sandwiches made with half white/half wheat and called it "magic bread."

Re: Renaming food to get kids to eat? :-)

We call green beans "Green French Fries" anything that works!