All I had to do was to fill up an entire plate full of canned peas, grab a toothpick, and start eating them one at a time after a loud: Ready! Set! Go! My son loves Ready! Set! Go! After he saw me down 295 of them by skewering and eating them one at a time off of a plate in just 3 minutes, he had to give it a try. He climbed up in my chair, grabbed a toothpick and excitedly called out Ready! Set! Go! He finished the rest of the plate.

Incidentally, the previous record for most tinned peas eaten with a cocktail stick (toothpick) in 3 minutes was 222. The footnote here is I broke a Guinness World Record today – my 59th. I’m more excited that I got my 2-year-old son to eat peas.