not a picky eater

Sunday night we stopped at Souplantation on our way home from floor hockey to get some takeout salads. Whenever we eat at Souplantation we get Ada a little plate full of some of her favorite items from the salad bar. This mostly consists of chick peas, kidney beans, pasta spirals, and black olives (yuck!). So when we did our takeout we used a few of our little containers to do the same so Ada would have her own set of food when we sat down to dinner. We were running a little late so we decided to let Ada pick at her set of beans and olives while Elliot gathered up some bread and soup to complete our dinner. I thought she'd munch on one or two kidney beans and then be bored and want to move on, not so much. She plowed through her entire container - equivalent to a good handful of food. So on the way out we refilled her container, which she insisted on holding and eating from on the way home. Once again she plowed through this entire container before we got home. This left me scrambling a bit because I didn't expect her to finish one of the containers, let alone two. So when we got home I picked through Elliot's and my salads to pick out food that Ada will eat. She ate most of this, with the notable exception of carrot slivers. She picked these off of every other piece of food we gave her. She also got a little minestrone soup and clam chowder (which she loved), and some wheat bread with butter. Not only was she eating a lot, she was eating fast. I got tired just trying to keep up with the speed of her food intake. In the end in this one sitting she ate more black olives than I have eaten in my entire life, proving that at age 1 she is already less of a picky eater than her mama.