Back when I was married, I complained that it seems like every time we had pasta, green beans went with. Not just at our house, it seemed to be a universal consensus that green beans with with spaghetti and red sauce. But it always seemed wrong to me.
I like green beans, just not with pasta.
Apparently, my alternative is just as repugnant to my only child. Except she wouldn't like sprouts no matter what I served them with.
Two sprouts. And I had to offer the specter of ass cancer and the prospect of not going down the street to play after dinner in order to get those in her. Holy jeez.
I couldn't get her to eat the salad at all.
My daughter, Lydia loves sprouts and salad probably because her Father is a real food Fascist. Yesterday she said "I like cabbage because it's like big Brussel sprouts."
ReplyDeleteCabbage is just a big Brussels sprout! Perceptive kid.
ReplyDeleteI told Em the sprouts were like baby cabbage because she occasionally likes cabbage, but she wasn't having any of Dad's crazy theories.
Sprout cousins, from Belgium :-)
ReplyDeleteMy husband makes Lydia sit at the table until all her food has gone. I thought it was a bit draconian but it works. She eats everything including fish!I am not saying she likes it though :-) She's just 8.
Your kids look cool and sane.