Wait. What? She wants to be duped?

I don't get it. I just don't understand.

Caitlynn wants me to dupe her? Huh?

Ok, so it starts like this... if you know me personally (most of you who read this blog do -- and you are so lucky, I might add because I'm the greatest -- teehee...), you know that I cook a lot. I make dinner almost every night. Even with my better-than-average cooking skills, my kids don't always want to eat what I make. Sure, they love certain dishes, but I cannot for the life of me get them to eat real macaroni and cheese (what!?) and homemade chicken nuggets (what what say what?!). I know. I've mentioned this before. My kids are weird. They've been brainwashed by Kraft and Tyson. Damn you, processed food giants!

I am also not a mother who hides or masks vegetables in meals in order to dupe my kids into eating healthy. In fact, I'm totally against this tactic simply because it creates an unhealthy relationship with food. It teaches kids that eating vegetables has to be done in a sneaky manner and it adds a whole level of deceit into dinner time. In my opinion, just serve the vegetables along with the other food. Let them see the beautiful colors of vegetables. Serving 2 vegetables with a meal should be the norm. Eventually the kids will "get it."

So, I've struggled to get my 2 munchkins to eat veggies. But I figured out the ways they will eat them. Caitlynn prefers hers to be pureed (she loves leek and potato soup) and Miles will eat a bowl of chili with peppers and onions (but not carrots).

In addition to veggies served in soup form, they both love smoothies. The more berries, the better. Fruit is always easy for them to eat, isn't it?

This is where the whole duped thing comes into play. Caitlynn wants me to make smoothies with spinach. She had a smoothie like this at school and was open to it. Usually when adults add spinach to smoothies, it's to mask it so that kids get the vitamins but don't know they are eating spinach. Popeye ate his spinach straight from a can and we have to resort to serving it in smoothies.

But Caitlynn wants to be duped. She wants the spinach masked in the smoothie. Since she knows how the smoothie is made, maybe this is a good thing. I'll probably oblige, even though spinach is a no-no for me (I'm on blood thinning medication). I cannot guarantee that Miles will drink the smoothie. But at least Caitlynn will.

It's a start.







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