I thought these questions would provoke many memories! I know they did for me.

1. What is your first food memory?
I remember eating Cheerios at the bar in our kitchen, sitting up high on the stools & being told not to twirl the chair.

2. What was your favorite dish/food as a child?
My mom’s mashed potatoes. I still love them.

3. Name one of your mini’s favorite foods:
ha! I can’t name just one…Strawberries, rice, peas, lettuce, noodles, cucumbers. If I did a meal with all that combined I’d be sure to have her eat it all!

4. What was your mini’s first solid food? Did they love it or hate it?
rice cereal and applesauce. I remember her really going for it!

5. What was something you were excited to make for your mini for the first time?
The aforementioned mashed potatoes. Since they are my favorite food. My husbands big one was pizza. Luckily for our fragile egos she loves both!

6. What is your favorite food memory?
The yellow cake on my 4 year old birthday. I just remember it being so good and super yummy. We were not a household that ate a lot of cake so your birthday cake was a pretty special event.

7. Your mini’s birthday party : All out theme with perfect kid food ala Martha? or Quiet family home party with scrumptious cupcakes? Something in-between?
Quiet home party with delusions of grandeur. I usually have a big plan and then get down to the wire and have to punt. We always have yummy food! I think it will be better when she can help with the planning. Good thing she’s Ina Garten’s biggest fan!!

8. Name one thing you absolutely love to make and eat when you are feeling like a kid again:
Brownies or fudge. We used to make fudge for Christmas presents at our house and it was so good! I can never make it as well as my mom did.

9. Name something you ate as a kid that you now look back on and wonder “what were my childhood taste buds thinking??” :
Kraft sliced American cheese with ketchup on it. I know it is SO gross!! But hey what did I know?

10. Name 3 things your mini loves (doesn’t have to be food related):
Totoro, Kiki, babies, animals, letters & numbers