Frugal Friday- With an Added Bonus

This weeks Frugal Friday tip comes with the added bonus of a Child Training Tip!

We were having an issue with food being wasted. A child would decide they didn't want leftover spaghetti, or they would ask for bowl after bowl of cereal...with half of it ending up on the floor. My husband does not like to waste food, so we decided to come up with a solution. We wanted to teach our children to not waste our food resources, and we also wanted to teach them to be obedient, even in things they didn't really want to...

So, we instituted a new rule. If you do not eat it, then it is saved and served again to you for the next meal. If you throw it on the floor, you will put it back on your plate. After a day of spaghetti for breakfast, our food wasting problem was solved.

I want to add, on a side note, that we are not unreasonable about this. If it is something that a child has tried and just legitimately do not like, we do not make them eat it. The reason we instituted this was that they were wasting things that they did in fact like, simply out of stubbornness. (I don't want oatmeal today...)

Hugs,