So, how do you get your vegetable-hating nine-year-old to eat her zucchini?
Easy. You just hide it deep inside a chocolate cake.
To do this, you simply shred it, mix it with a little sugar, cocoa powder, applesauce, a few eggs, a handful of other dry goods, and then bake at 350 until done.
Easy breezy.
Of course, by utilizing this sneaky strategy, we mothers realize that we have to throw our healthy eating habits to the wind and ignore the fact that there is, basically, no nutritional value in said zucchini at this point. Instead, we must look to the bigger picture. However, if you follow this advice, and if your vegetable-hating children are anything at all like mine, not only will they eat said zucchini, but upon arriving home from school, they will even proclaim "Mom, you should have seen how fast that cake disappeared at lunch today! I had to hide it from C--- while I ate it!" (And, yes I take praise and compliments, aka the bigger picture, anywhere I can get them.)
Be warned, however, if your vegetable-hater discovers the recipe for chocolate zucchini cake on your computer, like mine did, there will be upset. There will be disgust. Assertions may even be made against your character (but just little ones, about being a trickster). So do not despair. After a sufficient amount of time has passed, time spent staring at said cake, I guarantee your child, like mine, will give into temptation and eat their veggies.
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