The Inconvenient Truth about Dining Out With Kids

Didn't I Just Feed You

Stacie Billis and Meghan Splawn

Kids & Family, Parenting, Arts, Food

4.9 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Here's an idea: Let's take feeding kids public! We’ll bring them to a restaurant full of other adults who aren't compelled to think that our kids are cute. We’ll pay to make the experience happen. And let’s throw waiters who are loathe to deal with our small people in the mix, too, so we can pay them extra for having to serve us. Sounds fun, right?

This, friends, is dining out with children. Let us speak of why we partake of this ritual. Because, yes, we believe it's worth it. (But, yes, it's possible we're just crazy.)

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0:00.0	When it comes to feeding our kids, we are playing the long game. Yes, right now, they cannot sit down, even 30 minutes. That's hard. But, you know, they won't learn how to eat in nice restaurants if you don't take them out to eat ever, anywhere, even to Chucky Cheese. And then when they're 12 or 13, you expect them to go to a fine dining
0:22.1	restaurant and have appropriate behavior. Like, you have to start practicing early and often.
0:28.5	Hey, I'm Stacy. And I'm Megan, and this is Didn't I Just Feed You, a podcast about feeding
0:34.2	families because, man, kids need to eat a lot.
0:38.4	And very frequently, too.
0:41.1	Every week, we'll dig into some aspect of being the family cook,
0:44.6	from menu planning to eating out with kids,
0:47.3	coping with picky eating to wellness for families.
0:50.1	We are armed with culinary prowess.
0:53.3	Ooh, I like that word.
0:54.8	They can read all about on our website.
0:57.2	Didn't I Just Feed You.com.
0:59.4	Practical advice, a microphone, and yes, sometimes even whiskey.
1:05.3	We'll also have guests from time to time, not just the whiskey, including celebrities and
1:10.8	chefs, but more importantly,
1:12.4	other parents in the trenches, because we know that they're real experts are other parents who
1:17.1	are feeding their kids day in and day out like us, because we may be food professionals,
1:22.6	but we're also busy working moms. That's right. Always busy and definitely moms. What are you busy with this week,
1:32.5	Stacey? So I have to travel this week actually. So it's been crazy. This isn't our normal day and
1:38.9	time to record. Thank you for changing your schedule, Megan. Of course. Getting to go to sunny L.A.
1:45.2	Right as it finally gets sunny here in New York City.
1:48.1	But yeah, so I am prepping like crazy to leave my boys for four days so that I can go off
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