Mess. We have it. Constantly.
There’s even a cat in there somewhere.
This is a fairly typical depiction of our household.
But I’m not going to dwell on that kind of mess today. As part of the Finish Quantum ‘We Love Messy Meals’ campaign, I thought I’d first reminisce about the kids and their messy eating and then pictorialise a recent messy meal.
If you want to do the same, Finish also invites you to enter photos and videos at www.messymeals.com.au. There is a chance to win $25,000 and have your family star in the next Finish Quantum TV ad! Get in quick as there isn’t much time left.
Okay, let’s see…
1. First taste of solids 2. First birthday party 3. Fifteen months
Riley has always preferred to play with his food, rather than eat it. These photos are but a sample of what there are in our hard drive.
As Keira has always been a hungry and fastidious eater, this honestly is about the only shot of her as a baby with mess on her face! I remember this day so well because I’d made lentil soup as a Great Experiment and she wolfed it down, smearing it a little, and I grabbed the camera to celebrate.
{Segue: As this blog documents pretty much all of Riley’s life, but missed Keira’s true babyhood, I admit I can’t help showing off a picture of her at a young age. This is where I say something like, ohmygodthecutelookather! I’ve kept that purple muslin too.}
Now she’s old enough to have already begun her own cooking adventures in the kitchen and in this intrepid frame of mind I let her loose to cook lasagne for dinner: a multi-pot, layering-and-assembly-meal that guaranteed mess.
What Adam and I didn’t mention to the kids was how we’d planned a dessert this particular evening. Chocolate fondue! We were given a fondue set years ago that we’ve never used and thought this would be a perfect opportunity to try.
Unfortunately, as it turned out, the metal on the pot is very thin and all it took was one moment of distraction, of taking an eye off the stirring spoon, for the chocolate mix to turn and burn. Inedible! Disaster! All that wasted chocolate! Dear, dear …
If our story has inspired you to do better – or prove you’ve done far, far worse! – then you could always enter the competition too. A reasonable excuse for a food fight? Maybe… outside perhaps!
