Those of you who know me know that I am about the pickiest eater in the world. I only know 2 people pickier than me. Those people are Darren and Tray. I thought I was picky until I married Darren and realized that I had my work cut out for me since he is even worse than me. As a result we ended up with Tray who I swear has a sixth sense when it comes to things he "doesn't like" to eat. Mainly meat and vegetables. I don't mind him not eating meat, cause we really don't eat too much of it anyways, only once in a while. But he spits out his Veggies too. Even as a tiny guy he refused the baby food veggies, shocker right? ha ha those things are Nasty! Now, if he "senses" any veggies mixed in his food he will spit his whole mouthful out. What a stinker huh?? Well after some helpful tips and advice from sister in laws I have made the decision to really try to get my little family eating healthier. We LOVE fruit so thats not a problem, we could eat fruit all day long, but vegetables are another story.. Let me just tell you.. it is ROUGH! ha ha I HATE cooked vegetables. Always have. I'll eat some raw but even then it's a select few. So this is QUITE the feat! But I am very please to announce that we are making some headway. We have had vegetables in some form or another everyday this last week. I have steamed veggies a few times with meals and had a pretty good turn out. Darren actually loved them, I GAGGED them down (without pinching my nose too! I must be growing up!) I cut them up very small and hid them in Trays food as well, which he gobbled up. I feel like super mom! I've been spending more money on veggies and less on other snacks and have been chopping up celery, olives, carrots, and even green peppers (yep, thats right mom! I ate a green pepper today!) to munch on along with various fresh fruits. Last night at dinner Darren got Tray to willingly eat a piece of steamed broccoli by itself, not hidden in anything. He didn't even spit it out. We were so excited and shared a very enthusiastic high five across the table lol He refused to eat another piece but hey, I am just so excited we got one in him. There is hope! I am hoping in time I will aquire a taste for them but until then I will be choking them down. Ha ha anyways, I am just so excited about it! I had to share my triumph with everyone :) So if anyone has any special ways they like to prepare some "yummy" veggies that I can try with my family I am WIDE open for suggestions! Thanks!
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This may sound kind of gross, Darrell won't even try it, but since I have been doing my diet I learned that it is really hard to get enought to eat when I eat so much fresh food so what I did was make shakes. Banannas are so sweet that you can put handfulls of spinach into a bananna shake and barely taste them. As long as you can ignore the color you can have way more veggies and it doesn't taste bad! I tried it with cucumbers and bannans, it was not bad at all. the lettuce with banannas was terrible though!! So all I use is ice, banannas and whatever veggie I add.
We do a "green drink"... OJ with spinach and occasionally some carrot juice and avocado. Amir LOVES it. We used to have the same kind of problem with veggies but the green drinks really helped. Also, lasagna is a really great place to hide veggies. We rarely eat meat as well so when I make lasagna I put carrots and zucchini in it. Just chop it up really small and steam it before hand so they are REALLY soft.
I usually bake my vegetables. Especially broccoli and asparagus. Or make a stir fry with rice. Salad is always good too, and put fruit like apples and grapes or strawberries. A spinach strawberry salad is really good. But skip the iceberg lettuce-it has absolutely no nutritional value.
Good for you! Just remember those slight edge changes little by little you will get to where you want to be and you will live longer and healthier for it!
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