Bigger is Better (Unless it Makes Someone Puke)

One of Josh's students told him about a show called "Man vs. Food" which has become a novel way to make our kids eat a lot.  We let the kids watch a few episodes and then took them to this awesome place called "Big Judds" which makes giant 1LB hamburgers.  The kids (well, mostly Carter and Taylor) were so psyched out from the show, that they both ate TONS.  Taylor ate more than 1/4  of the hamburger!  This was amazing, because he rarely can down a small hamburger.

After that day, we have made our own 1 lb hamburgers.  We made the bun in a cake-pan, grilled the giant 1 lb burger on a big piece of tin-foil and loaded it up with lots and lots of good stuff.   We challenged our cousin/nephew, Kenny to eat an entire burger, and made him throw-up.  (sorry, Kenny) We also gave the challenge to some missionaries that we had over for dinner.  One missionary finished 3/4ths of the burger, but then bowed out.  Mallory said the closing prayer and prayed "Bless that nobody will throw-up from our dinner."  That's not exactly what you want to hear in a post-meal prayer.

Kenny before puking

We also made (attempted) a giant doughnut.  (why not?)  It was going to be totally awesome, but apparently that much dough doesn't cook through very thoroughly, so Carter's friend wasn't able to finish it.  I guess he could have if he didn't mind puking it all up too.