- I've been trying to recall all of the sassy things Grace says to me.
- I've been wanting to talk about my adventures in child photography. Christmas card coming up and all, it's been... "an adventure" to be sure.
- I've wanted to talk about how insane-it-is that local radio station 99.9 has been playing Christmas Music ALL WEEK LONG - Oy Vey!! It's not even Thanksgiving yet!
- I've been wanting to talk about my "Plan" for Christmas this year. How I feel that; If I treat it like I did my wedding. And I enjoy all the minutia and details and days leading up to Christmas, it won't come and go and be a big build for a big let down as it is every year...
But this post... This one is a Hallelujah to my pal Grace and her lending me "The Sneaky Chef" All hail Grace Laba!! I've heard about the Sneaky Chef and Deliciously Deceptive. I've known that with Grace's eating issues I'd be facing the need to figure out a few tricks to get better quality of food in her; But for one reason or another I've not taken the initiative to go get the cookbooks. Thanks to Sunday night football, our Wednesday play date and playing around while waiting around for the news on Thursday, Grace had time to tell of and show me the wonders of The Sneak Chef .
Today with cookbook in hand I immersed myself in the world of sneaky. To date my kids eat french cut, canned green beans. If you count a cucumber as a vegetable, they eat that too, but canned, nasty, soggy green beans. That's it. They loved sweet potatoes when it was in baby food form. Every once in a blue moon I can get them to eat a cooked carrot, but their diet consists of chicken nuggets, macaroni & cheese, spaghetti, string cheese, yogurt, smoothies, fruit and milk. That's about it. So as I started to say; Today I got sneaky. Thursday 'Big Grace' made the kids Mac n Cheese with sweet potato and carrot. Lily ate it as if it were going out of style. Grace ate quite a bit considering she was at someone else's house surrounded by toys calling, no, screaming her name. That was it. I was hooked. Even if that was going to be the only recipe that my kids ate it was still way better than what we were doing at the moment.
So today was a big risk. With big risk comes big reward, right?? I made the Green Puree and mixed it into "Tinkerbell Eggs" The book calls them Popeye Eggs, but my kids don't know who Popeye is and Tinkerbell tends to be a pretty good bet. They ate every bite! They don't usually eat every bite of the regular scrambled eggs and they like them! That and the thought of spinach, broccoli, and peas mixed into eggs turned my stomach, but eggs in general turn my stomach... BUT THEY ATE THEM!
To be sure it wasn't a fluke, dinner tonight consisted of a side of Tinkerbell Eggs and they ate them again! I am loving this book! And though I am always loving her, I am especially loving 'Big Grace' today! I can't wait to try chocolate chip pancakes and oven fried chicken and see if those are as successful! Thank you Big Grace, you're pretty sneaky!
P.S. Way too much to photocopy... I'm buying my own copy of this book!
