Ellen should have taken the plate away from where Ruthie could see it, and then turned the sandwich over. Works every time. -My younger sister was this way when she was a kid. If one thing on her plate touched anything else on the plate, she wouldn’t eat a thing. Our Mom learned early to just take the plate back into the kitchen, carefully move the mashed potatoes away from the lamb chop and wipe off any evidence that the two had ever been near each other.
Ellen should have taken the plate away from where Ruthie could see it, and then turned the sandwich over. Works every time. -My younger sister was this way when she was a kid. If one thing on her plate touched anything else on the plate, she wouldn’t eat a thing. Our Mom learned early to just take the plate back into the kitchen, carefully move the mashed potatoes away from the lamb chop and wipe off any evidence that the two had ever been near each other.