I've figured it out, though I'm not sure what I'm going to do if we ever live in a climate that makes having a something cold to drink year round a little ridiculous.
Okay, I'm sure that if you are a frequent blog reader you're familiar with the green monsters or SIAB(AKA= Smoothies in a bowl). This is something that many of those in the healthy living area are already all over. Yeah, I'm a little late to the party.
But here's the thing, I think Mama Pea is onto something.
Alright, I'll stop blathering on and just say it.
How do you get a little person to eat their veggies?
Trick question, you don't. Have them drink them.
Okay, stay with me. Tonight, Abi decided she was perfectly content to just have pizza for dinner. She didn't really want her mac and cheese from last night... well she did but not the "green stuff" (spinach) that I had put in it. (It actually tasted really good, and I am planning to have it for lunch tomorrow.)
So I ask her what she wants for dinner, going through the contents of the fridge. She wants pizza...GREAT! I have no problem with pizza but unless I've really jazzed it up with a truck load of veggies it just doesn't do it for me as a main entree for her. So I'm thinking tonight, what can I add to her pizza to make me feel better.
That's when I have my aha moment. She can have a smoothie. We've been having smoothies for a while, but usually I've made them for me and she wants some. Tonight, she is my audience and bonus I've all the contents in the fridge.
Including the despised frozen spinach! I add a huge hunk of it, I'm talking the size of two her little fist. To hide that distinctive green color a bit, I throw in some frozen blueberries to the mango smoothie mix from Jamba Juice (Earthfare has them on sale right now).
The taste, not half bad. Okay... it's really good and I don't even like mango. What's better than that, she is currently sucking down some spinach in a cup none the wiser.
So do yourself and the parents in your life a favor. When their little person has another gift giving holiday or just because you like them, get them a decent blender/personal drink mixer. Tell them to throw in their favorite smoothie ingredients along with some spinach.
Their kid will drink their veggies and you will be highly favored... especially over that person who buys them toys that eat batteries.
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
-1 + 1 = 0 ?
Two things happened today that i think, effectively cancel each other out.
In my effort to make a good choice, I signed up for spinning tonight at Good Friends Group Fitness and signed Abi up for the kids playhouse. Class starts at 5:30 and we got there at 5:40. I decide we are not going to go, but there is a catch. Abi knows we are going and knows that she has two friends from school that also come here to play. Silly mommy. We stay, Abi plays and I watch her because I'm late. FAIL.
We get home, have dinner (good choices were made), and I get Abi into bed. I spend the next hour catching up on my blog reading for the night and realize.... I WON THE YOGURT GIVE AWAY!!!!! Over at edible perspective, Ashley was doing reader appreciation week and this was the last of the giveaways.
Yes I know it's yogurt, but we can go through some yogurt in this house. And who doesn't like winning stuff?!
Btw, if you've stumbled here from the edible perspective... HI!!
In my effort to make a good choice, I signed up for spinning tonight at Good Friends Group Fitness and signed Abi up for the kids playhouse. Class starts at 5:30 and we got there at 5:40. I decide we are not going to go, but there is a catch. Abi knows we are going and knows that she has two friends from school that also come here to play. Silly mommy. We stay, Abi plays and I watch her because I'm late. FAIL.
We get home, have dinner (good choices were made), and I get Abi into bed. I spend the next hour catching up on my blog reading for the night and realize.... I WON THE YOGURT GIVE AWAY!!!!! Over at edible perspective, Ashley was doing reader appreciation week and this was the last of the giveaways.
Yes I know it's yogurt, but we can go through some yogurt in this house. And who doesn't like winning stuff?!
Btw, if you've stumbled here from the edible perspective... HI!!
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Ch-ch-changes...
In my head, that's always how that word sounds. Don't know what I'm talking about, here you are.
Anyway, I was reading over at Peas and Thank you about her picks and what brought her to the choices that she has made for her family. You know it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside. Though we aren't vegetarian or vegan like the peas, the choices I've made with regards to how we live our life have definitely been little one inspired. (I probably shouldn't call her the "little one" in anymore, she isn't so little).
When I was pregnant with Abi I ate a lot of fruit. I couldn't get enough fuji apples. Realizing I was eating my weight in fruit on a monthly basis, I started eating organic fruit. In addition to following the normal rules for what to eat and what not to eat while pregnant, I started reading about food issues. We started making conscientious choices about the food we were getting instead of just getting the bananas that were just so (bright yellow, no spots, 40 % or less green). She was the cause. I wanted to be better for her, I wanted to give her a fighting chance. The lease I could do was to eat things that couldn't do her any harm.
Once she was here, that kind of increased to making sure that we always had things that were for her- food that I could feel okay about giving her. Now it has become that we, as a family, eat as locally and organically as possible. My father in law is relentless in the teasing about this, it's annoying. I joke with him, but in the end I hope that he gets it. He (and really anyone else who cares) understands that the choices we have made are because, I feel like, it's the least we could do.
Anyway, I was reading over at Peas and Thank you about her picks and what brought her to the choices that she has made for her family. You know it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside. Though we aren't vegetarian or vegan like the peas, the choices I've made with regards to how we live our life have definitely been little one inspired. (I probably shouldn't call her the "little one" in anymore, she isn't so little).
When I was pregnant with Abi I ate a lot of fruit. I couldn't get enough fuji apples. Realizing I was eating my weight in fruit on a monthly basis, I started eating organic fruit. In addition to following the normal rules for what to eat and what not to eat while pregnant, I started reading about food issues. We started making conscientious choices about the food we were getting instead of just getting the bananas that were just so (bright yellow, no spots, 40 % or less green). She was the cause. I wanted to be better for her, I wanted to give her a fighting chance. The lease I could do was to eat things that couldn't do her any harm.
Once she was here, that kind of increased to making sure that we always had things that were for her- food that I could feel okay about giving her. Now it has become that we, as a family, eat as locally and organically as possible. My father in law is relentless in the teasing about this, it's annoying. I joke with him, but in the end I hope that he gets it. He (and really anyone else who cares) understands that the choices we have made are because, I feel like, it's the least we could do.
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