something not heard in many homes…
“You & I will be fighting over those Brussels sprouts.”
Uttered to my 17-year old daughter, PBJ. By me.
This is the same child that at 5 years old started crying at the dinner table because she wanted more spinach and her brother and sisters ate it all up.
I swore right then that one-eyed aliens from another galaxy had deposited these children in our home while we slept one night. This never would have happened at my family’s dinner table when I was growing up. All green food tended to migrate towards my dad’s plate. It was all I could do to choke down green beans. Brussels sprouts? Yecch. I don’t know how I developed a taste for them, but I absolutely love them now.
But peas, lima beans, and frozen mixed vegetables are still forbidden on my plate.
Any other veggie like/dislike stories out there? Anyone? {knocks on monitor} Bueller?
BEAUTIFUL story! Wish I had some to share, but it has been many years since my teenage son actually KNEW he was eating veggies—I am sneaky. Thanks for the laugh!
Stacie
Thanks for stopping by, Stacie. Actually, my grandmother had to guilt-trip me into eating her veggies. I was such a sucker.
I cannot tell you how often we have to tell my 11 year old, “no more broccoli until you eat some meat.” You can substitute raw spinach in that sentence, too.
I don’t think we’ve tried her on brussel sprouts. I love fresh, but never frozen. We’re big veggie eaters, though. Okay, okay, mostly spinach and broccoli. We had to trick her into eating her asparagus with the promise of stinky pee later.
My mom wouldn’t let us eat asparagus if she cooked it. It was all hers. Yaa, that didn’t last. We wanted it. Would eat it over anything else.
My daughter could outeat anyone when broccoli was involved…even when she was three.