What's that green thing? Ewww!

So - I had a plan...clean out the fridge of all the 1/2 vegetables we had in the crisper and TRY and get my 4 year old to actually eat something for dinner other than a piece of dry bread. Solution - a butter knife and soft vegetables. My daughter had a blast cutting up green peppers, zucchini, mushrooms and tomatoes for our impromptu sausage meatball spaghetti.



Watching her sudden interest in vegetables made me smile. Why did it take me so long to figure this out? After all - I'm smart, I have experience working with children - seriously - if it's really this easy - why not write a book and become a millionaire? I had visions of us all sitting down to a peaceful meal - without the typical screaming, whining and torture sounding moaning that occured during a family supper. "Why Mom"...my children would say over a forkful of veggies - "This meal is WONDERFUL - you are the best MOM ever!" I would smile back over my well deserved glass of Chianti and say "Really darling children...it was nothing!"


So - I then took the sausage out of the casing to make the meatballs (because how COOL are meatballs!) - fried them up, and we added all of the cut up veggies my daughter had prepared. Big pieces, eeny teeny pieces - it all went into the pan with some tomato sauce! Boiled up some noodles to serve with the sauce, and voila! One step closer to Suppertime Bliss! I can taste it!


I know - I know...we are all wishing for a happy ending. However - I will take my victories in whatever form they are presented to me. So - would you believe that my daughter actually ate some PLAIN NOODLES with her dry bread! Woo hoo! This victory is mine! (On a side note - she did eat several of the "raw" vegetables while cutting them up - so I'll take that small step in the prevention of scurvy, and give myself a mommy "pat on the back" for having my children survive another day!)

Happy cooking!!