This evening when I was making dinner I decided to shred some carrots into the taco meat. Not in the "I-love-these-kids-so-much-so-I-want-to-help-them-be-healthy" way but in the "ha-ha-ha-take-that-suckers" way. I was almost cackling with glee while I shredded that carrot.
Sometimes the dark side takes over me.
After shredding for what seemed like an eternity and I had just the right amount of carrots disguised as bits of ground beef and taco seasoning I stopped shredding. I still had about a half of a carrot left in my hand and it needed to be used so I cut it into 7 carrot sticks and put them in a little bowl.
Andrew explained to the kids that they didn't have to take a carrot stick. Tonight vegetables were optional for kids; they were only required for cool people.
Much to my surprise the kids eagerly passed the bowl around the table and each took a carrot. Even Rachel ate a carrot (without spitting it out after she chewed it)!
That kind of took the wind out of my evil-genius sails.
Couldn't they have been at least a little bit upset about eating carrot sticks tonight? That would have made my efforts seem worth it. Had I known I wasn't going to get any complaints about them I wouldn't have bothered to shred them into the taco meat.
Curses! Foiled again! *Sigh.*
lol. If Andrew hadn't said what he did about only cool people eating carrots, you can bet they'd still be sitting in the bowl! :)
ReplyDeleteHey, I have been known, to take baby food veggies and mix them into sauces, pancakes all sorts of stuff. I have weird kids though, they like spinach and brussel sprouts and even asparagus...I hope I spellled those right.
ReplyDeleteI've tried to shredding carrots thing once--for spaghetti sauce! It is hard work.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't help but laugh at your evil scheming. You just don't seem like the type...but then people say that about me too, and I fool them all the time. Haha. I'm glad the kids enjoyed the carrots though. And they got extra, just for the healthy part, in their ground beef too. ;)
ReplyDeleteI love the fact that Kelli spelled all of the vegetables right, but misspelled "spellled". :)
ReplyDeleteThat's fantastic!
ReplyDeleteI tired, leave me alone! ;}
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