We had stir fry for supper. The kids have altered our consumption of this meal in a couple of ways. For example, we can't eat with chopsticks anymore because then the kids want to use chopsticks, but they can't actually eat with them, so they just play and sword fight and stab and drop them on the floor, all the while refusing to eat with a fork or spoon. So now we all have to eat with forks.
Secondly, we don't put peanuts or spicy red pepper flakes in it anymore. Alice doesn't like the peanuts (and we can't send it in their school lunches if there are peanuts) and neither kid can handle spicy food yet. But the problem is that Simon doesn't understand this concept, so when Zac sprinkled hot pepper flakes on his stir fry, Simon demanded that he should have some too. When denied his seemingly reasonable request, he started to tantrum and refused to eat. So Zac solved the problem by giving him a 1/4 teaspoon of paprika to sprinkle on his stir fry instead. Then Simon insisted on eating his stir fry with the 1/4 teaspoon. He was taking forever, so we all abandoned him at the table. He didn't seem to mind too much.
