The diabolical plan to get our boys to eat vegetables

We've been struggling to incorporate fresh produce in our lives. It seems like I get a bit out of practice during the winter months so we've devised a cunning plan. Eli and Jonah aren't big vegetable fans unless they're picking right from the garden. Eli does like carrots. And they both like apples and salad, but what I hear most is requests for cheese and bread. So we had to make the vegetables something fun.

Josh has been taking the Trader Joe's Very Green supplaments for a while now and we decided to try making a green drink instead. He likes to use recipes, but I'm much more of an experimenter. The nice thing is that you can't really go wrong... depending on how much space you have left in the blender.

We usually start with an apple and a handful or two of spinach and kale, frozen berries and juice or water. We've also tried celery and pineapple and carrots and avacado. Banannas are good but overpowering and so is the celery. This sometimes is helpful though. The avacado makes it really smooth and if worse comes to worse add vanilla yogurt.

Last night Josh decided to throw a handful of the very green vitamins in and it ruined the whole thing. I was so mad. The entire smoothie tasted like vitamins and reminded me of my days during pregnancy which I would rather not remember. I resorted to adding mine to the yogurt. Jonah on the other hand as seen in exhibit "a" didn't care a bit.

This is what happens when you try to repair the broken blanket fort with one child and leave the other one unattended for 3 minutes with a chair pulled out from the dining room table. Be sure to put down your smoothie and forbid them to touch your drink. At least he's eating his vegetables. HA HA HA it was all part of our plan!