Food. I've spent a lot of time thinking about food lately. I've got fake-Thanksgiving coming up, Joseph the Food Scientist was in town, and every food I love seems to be landing on my "do not eat" list one-by-one.And then I watched an Oprah yesterday where Jerry Seinfeld's wife, Jessica, was peddling her new cookbook (Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food), finding the sneakiest way to feed her kids vegetables I'd ever heard of. She purees every kind of vegetable there is and then literally cooks it into everything her family eats. She often adds flax seed meal too. It seems like a pretty genius way to increase fiber too. I ordered the book and I'm going to give it a go.
Not only do I need to increase my fiber dramatically, I also need to add variety to my veggie consumption, namely in color. Jerry swears that all his wife's food tastes like it's missing something, or is store bought, when she skips the puree add-ins. She puts beets in her chocolate cake and garbanzo beans in her chocolate chip cookies.
When the book gets here I'll see how it goes with my dietary substitutions. I have high hopes. Lord knows we all need more veggies in our food here. If little Hyrum can eat pureed peas, we probably can too.
7 comments:
I guess it's a good thing you own a food processor. Also, you ruined the Christmas surprise. I should call you Dave.
karen is quite right. i saw that on oprah and thought "ali". now you will get nothing.
I watched that today and I want that cookbook. My Little A does NOT eat veggies so I think this will be a way to sneak them in (we do that with fruit in Smoothies).
Well I also want this book, but couldn't bring myself to order it. Perhaps this can be my Christmas gift. Although if you don't want to order it, I'll probably get it for myself for Christmas or my birthday anyhow. Long live Kim and Aggie!
http://www.amazon.com/How-Clean-Your-House-Hundreds/dp/0452286964/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-3643456-0706331?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1191986391&sr=8-1
It's a great idea. But all I can think of is adding an extra (read: illegal) herb to brownies. Not that I ever did that, of course, but it's what the book reminds me of.
I had never thought of such a thing Ann, but I promise you I never have put such things in my food and never will. Beets in chocolate cake is about as far as I'm willing to go.
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