Mon 27 Apr 2009
My Child Will Not Eat Vegetables
Posted by brooklinemama under food (growing, cooking, preserving) , future worries , garden[4] Comments
Gasp! See that gap?
A lettuce was taken from under the shade cloth! Ah, there it is:
And here:
This last picture, my dear readers, shows a true miracle. For Amie will not eat vegetables. No peas, or corn, no cucumber, no cherry tomatoes, no broccoli. Mashed potato, yes, and rice, but that is it. Something to do with color and texture. Luckily she’ll eat any fruit you give her – but try convincing her that tomatoes are fruit!
Maybe she understood how important this very first harvest was – or maybe her Baba quietly told her… As soon as I came in with the handful of leaves she asked me: can I taste it? And after I washed it, she took a bite, and another, and another. Three, yes. And though she didn’t seem wholly convinced, and had no more after that, she congratulated me:
- Mmm, Mama, that’s pretty good lettuce!
It sure is!
Here she is again, hanging out with most of the seedlings “hardening off” in the afternoon heat – maybe the hardening off only begins once theyre returned to the much cooler basement!
April 28th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
they’ve done all kinds of studies about how kids at schools will eat healthier food if they grew it. :^) how generous of her to try the lettuce *and* give you a compliment! :^)
that last picture is wonderful. :^)
April 30th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
It will grow on her. Daughter would not eat vegs (20 yrs ago) — today she’s a vegetarian — and studying to be a nutritionist/nurse practitioner …
May 3rd, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Congratulations!! And already she has good taste! Looks like she is bonding with the little veggies, too – Several people in the Growing Challenge last year found that their children were more excited to eat the veggies when they helped grow them. Ah, have something constructive and fun for them to do, tire them out, AND get them to eat vegetables – all with the same activity. ; )
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:55 am
[...] Lettuce was our first crop. I started the seedlings (Black-Seeded Simpson) in February and moved them into the cold frame up front in April. There they survived the last good frosts to make for a big bed of twenty very yummy lettuces. For a long time they were our only but seemingly never-ending harvest as I cut only the outer leaves, for many months. It was very satisfying. I even got to give some to our neighbors. I pulled the plants when they got bitter, though they never actually bolted. Unfortunately several of my in situ succession plantings of lettuce got eaten by slugs or drowned by the rains, so this turned out to be the only lettuce crop we had. [...]