Eat it, and they will come.

Here is Paul eating half of my grapefruit. I had gotten it out of the fridge and cut in in half, and left it on the counter for a little while (because I like my fruit room-temperature, not cold.) Paul saw it and came and asked if he could eat half of it. Sure, fine kid, go ahead. Of course, immediately upon hearing me grant this request, a different child piped up and asked for the other half of my grapefruit. *Request denied.* This was my food, that I got out or myself. We've had grapefruits in the fridge for two weeks, and no one was interested in them until I got one out for myself to eat. Similarly, a few weeks ago I made oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Now, prior experience has taught me that oatmeal raisin cookies generate a huge number of- "I hate raisins why did you put raisins in the cookies next time make chocolate chip" -type complaints. I happen to like oatmeal raisin cookies, so I separated out a small portion of cookie dough to add raisins to for myself, and put chocolate chips in the rest of the dough. Wouldn'tcha know, suddenly everyone developed a taste for my oatmeal raisin cookies, and ate them all before eating the chocolate chip ones (which, let it be said, I do not like as well as raisin cookies.) These are just a few examples of this phenomenon that occurs nearly every time I make food especially for myself.