Healthy

After way too long of a break, I'm trying to get healthy food back into our house.  REALLY healthy food, as in fresh grains and fresh greens....beans..proteins that aren't breaded and baked....basically, I'm reaching for the stars and want the moon on my plate, with a side of kale chips.  I'd be lying if I said that my kids willingly ate those foods when I was cooking them regularly...they relied on the fact that I would allow bread and butter to be substituted for the dinner I made, after a "no thank you" bite.

We've totally lost the concept of the "no thank you" bite.

Asian meatballs, made with ground turkey, were a huge hit with the big girl, so I took the last bit of meat, made EXACTLY the same mixture as my meatballs, and cooked it up in a skillet to make lettuce wraps.

This isn't funny, Mom.

It has color!  It's not WHITE!  It has texture...multiple textures!  Totally not cool!  It has lettuce...that's a leaf....leaves are BAD.





I won't even keep my plate in front of me, this is OFFENSIVE!  You took the wrap off the plate and put it in front of me again?  HA, I won't even touch it!





Milk...is my life.  It is the only thing that can sustain me in the face of this pure evil.


The big girl was so upset by dinner, she actually came to me thinking she was about to heave.  Not pretty.

Winter is ending, our reliance on potatoes, turnips, apples, onions, and carrots is almost over.  Wish me luck! And...send recipes.  Real food, kid approved...not too much to ask, right?

PS- No, Ernie is not recovering from pox.  She has effectively ripped off ALL her cuticles, and has now discovered that her face has texture, which can be scratched off daily, thereby increasing the texture and prolonging the number of times she can scratch it off every day.  Given this alarming habit, and that she will cheerfully forgo ANY meal that she'd rather not eat, I'm not sure she knows what pain means.

PPS- With one exception, the big girl will not touch soup.  She will not eat leaves of any sort, or anything with vinegar or spice.  She will not eat anything that looks like a casserole, and she will not eat sauce on her pasta, unless it is white. Food must be of one color, and one texture.  You may not chop up veggies and sneak them in.  It may be crunchy or smooth, but it can not be chunky.  All stone fruit is verboten, but berries, cucumbers, potatoes, apples, carrots, and bananas are good.  So is corn on the cob, but NOT off.  Yogurt is good, but should be vanilla, thereby fulfilling the "white" and "smooth" requirements.  Turnips may be boiled and mashed with potatoes to make tatties and neeps, but the end product must be pure white.  Rutabagas may not be substituted, as they will render the final product purple.  Potatoes may be baked, mashed, or fried.  They may not be made into gnocchi.  She will eat quinoa, sushi, edamame, and any breaded and fried minced meat including chicken nuggets (but not strips), fish sticks, and octopus.  She will eat rice with beans.  She will not eat mango, pineapple, kiwi, or anything interesting.  She would live on top ramen, white rice, white bread, and milk if she could.