How to Make Your Children BEG for Vegetables

I have admitted repeatedly (hoping confession is good for the soul) that I am not the world’s best cook. Or even the world’s second best cook. Really, the world screams “uncle” when I cook. Aware of my one fault, I have attempted to make up for it in other ways so my family isn’t completely malnourished. I watch what the boys have for snacks. I pack healthy lunches. I do what I can. The boys like all those little packets of drink mix that you add to water bottles. As a treat once in awhile we choose a flavor…peach tea, pink lemonade, grape, etc. and shake, shake, shake for fun. I was happy to find pink lemonade with added protein made by Special K that the boys drink with gusto. A little extra protein mid-morning seems to help dispositions. I then found a drink with a full serving of vegetables! It is called “Veggies To Go”! Be still my malnourished heart. What could be better than that? The boys are always a little light on the vegetables. So we added it to the water. We stirred. And stirred. And stirred. It tastes as bad as it looks. Using a goldfish glass might have been a little pond-water foreshadowing…