not only am i mean, but i am crafty
charles can attest to the blog headline, and in a few years it is my hope that my children will second, third, fourth and fifth the statement.
but, my defense will be, to quote harlequin (and really, who doesn't?) "i did it for love".
as you know, les enfants, with the exception of sela are not vegetably-inclined. actually, they are not overly fruit adventurous, with the exception of sela, who eats blueberries like they are m&m's and enjoys pineapple and strawberries and rockmelon and raspberries and laichees, etc.
while it was fun to take a summer hiatus, now we are back in hong kong and i am back in mummy whip cracking mode. and because i don't want to take on a few BIG issues, i decided to have a few small victories first, to make me feel good and warm me up. a facial for the soul.
so, i declared out of the blue to charles in our post dark knight shopping expedition, "get the ingredients for smoothies…tomorrow we start". and with that, i grabbed frozen spinach and chocolate powder.
every morning since, the kids have been enjoying chocolate smoothies that include: blueberries, bananas, strawberries, spinach, yogurt (sometimes), milk, ice and chocolate. i am debating throwing in some flax seed, but am scared to see the results.
it is a small victory, but a good one. it is not teaching them that vegetables are delicious, but hopefully they will learn that later in life. right? please?
if anyone has any other suggestions for other vegetables we could drop in there, we're listening. sebastian caught me thawing the spinach and asked what it was, and charles answered, "vitamins". no lying in this house! i will post the best recipe we find, if you want. in the meantime, this is working really well and we're really grateful. for a while there it seemed the only way we were going to get vegetables into jasper was if we laced his bobs and socks with celery string.
