What's the big idea?

I have three wonderful children. The Eldest is a 'pescatarian' (who can't quite eschew Haribo sweets) who's usually up for a new taste sensation and has a surprisingly good appetite. Middle is beginning to eat substatial amounts of food but complains a great deal if it's not Toad in the Hole. Youngest seems to survive on malties and air and is only happy if allowed to eat plain carbohydrates.

After more than a year of approximately five recipes being churned out day in, day out, I have a New Year's Resolution: broaden my children's appreciation of food and in so doing relieve the boredom I experience from both cooking and eating.

This is the plan: on Tuesdays I will cook a meal which is not part of our usual repetoire and entice the children to eat it by introducing them to the concept of eating as travel. Dishes may be simplified (dare I say it, dumbed down) to draw in their developing taste buds. They may come from a generic 'region' rather than a specific place and as such may not be totally 'authentic'. The kids can eat the food in whichever way the people who invented it eat it - and in fact the more we can do away with knives, forks, and the table and chairs the better. Shall we say a year?? A Year of Eating Differently (of course with the hope they'll embrace anything I throw at them after that). A Year of Travelling Tuesdays.