Day 7 One Week In!!

We made it a week!!!!

Breakfast:
cereal (kids)
banana muffin (dad, last one so I need to do some baking again!)
pineapple, mango, banana, kale smoothie (mom)

Lunch:
peanut butter sandwiches (Dad, D and E) noodles (T), pretzels, apples, snap peas, almonds
leftover pizza (mom)

Dinner:
Spaghetti, bread, parsnip fries, pears

Dessert:
Popcorn with Earth Balance and salt

Tried the Nut Butter Crusted Parsnip Fries recipe from Oh She Glows.  I used almond butter and they were really yummy.  The kids thought they were "alright" and E didn't like them at all, which surprised me because he is usually the one who likes everything!  Dad and Mom loved them!

Sometimes it can be tough to get the kids to try new things and I feel like maybe they decide before they even try it that they won't like it.  We try to do a 3 bite rule, rather than a 1 bite rule.  I tell them, "the first bite is when you introduce it, the second bite is when you get to really taste it and the third bite is when your tongue decides if it likes it or not."  I think it is more effective because if they are only having one bite, their brain can just tell them to choke it down and chase it with a drink so they don't taste it.  That's not really giving it a try!  If they know they have to try 3 bites, it is actually trying it and not just getting mom to shut up.  Well, I guess it is that too.

We had to make a grocery run tonight since I discovered while trying to make lunches at 11:00 last night that we were pretty much out of all our produce!  Vitamin Cottage was closed (only open till' 8:00!? Who's got it together for grocery shopping before 8:00pm??) so we went to Safeway.  T and E came with me and they laughed and said, "we pretty much only need one section now, cool!"  We did get a few staples like flour, Puffins cereal, crackers and peanut butter.  And also a ton more produce.  It's hard because in Colorado during winter there is no such thing as "local" so we had to get a lot of stuff that probably won't taste as good as it should but we really wanted grapes and strawberries.  We also got a few plantains to try later on (they take about 2 weeks to really ripen), so we'll have to see what we fun nonsense we can do with those.  I had the kids go and fetch things and, since they don't pay much attention to prices, I ended up with a $6.99 bag of dark chocolate chips (we need for E's bday cupcakes, can't wait!) and two jars of peanut butter (crunch and creamy) that were $7.69 each, ouch!  Those dang Clementines come in a gigantic bag but were $7.99 so we better eat them all!  Bill came to $138.44.