Eat your veggies!

SO being the normal mom that i am- you know guilt ridden and feeling inadequate- it was really bugging me that my kids don't eat their vegetables. So I have discovered a simple, but effective way to get them to. I grew up with the "try-a-little-of-everything" method which did introduce things, but my big brother, Stephen, found a loophole, he took it literally: one pea, one piece of lettuce, one green bean, etc, and to me that defeats the whole idea. So I channeled the days of yore and have introduced a novel idea to our dinners: DESSERT. It is not something that they have to eat, but it sure is yummy. SO now, I put a serving of veggies on their plates (a kid size serving, mind you) and if they eat it all, they get dessert. If not, they don't. the choice is up to them. So far it has worked with peas, brussel sprouts (or muscle sprouts as Jared calls them), and spinach. And guess who loves spinach:

and guess who doesn't:

He doesn't really like the new deal, he has never had to eat his veggies, in fact in his house veggies are corn, but he is a trooper. That is a mouthful of spinach you are looking at folks. And I am pretty sure that he only ate it because I reached for the camera- but hey whatever works.