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.
