And that was pure pleasure.”įrom time to time I will be adding recipes that I think you will enjoy trying with your kids. It was the first meal in a very long time during which I hadn’t said, ‘Eat your vegetables,’ even once. My husband, Jerry, was dying to know what all my smiling was about. I couldn’t stop smiling at the knowledge that my kids had eaten vegetables without a word from me. “It worked! The kids, entirely innocent of my deceit, plowed happily through their dinners. Feeling only a little guilty that I was tricking my children, I stirred in enough of the squash to feel satisfied that I was giving them a respectable portion of vegetables. So I stirred a little more, tasting to make sure the flavor of the squash didn’t overpower the cheese. The colors matched–you couldn’t really see the squash in there–and the texture was perfect. She goes on to say, “Then, one evening while I was cooking dinner, pureeing butternut squash for the baby and making mac and cheese for the rest of us, I had the crazy idea of stirring a little of the puree into the macaroni. If this sounds familiar to you, this method and some of the recipes in this book may restore peace to your dinner table too. I just wanted a little peace around the dinner table.” Instead of laughing and having fun with my family, I was irritated and stressed as I labored to coerce them to eat food they found ‘disgusting.’ I couldn’t take it any more. Mealtimes were reduced to a constant pushing and pulling, with me forever begging my kids to eat their vegetables, and them protesting unhappily. Jessica starts her book with, “I had tried everything, and yet all my efforts to feed my family were being undermined by a powerful force: vegetables. Deceptively Delicious by Jessica Seinfeld offers simple secrets to get kids eating good food.
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