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I've found that growing vegetables in the garden gets my kids more excited about eating them. They beg for wilted chard, and eat carrot and zucchini sticks in homemade avocado hummus. They love munching garden cucumbers. Pretty much knowing it grew in the yard makes them more excited about it...

Nicki

Hi Erika, The V8 Fusion is awesome!..... and Carolyn, I was just watching a show on the miracle fruit (berry right?) it was pretty interesting with a room full of volunteers sipping little slugs of vinegar, olive juice and such....thinking it was sweet.

It was interesting for sure....did anyone else see it?

Hi Nicki....doesn't it make such a difference with your own garden and veggies? My kids always loved to grow veggies and flowers too and the reward for cultivating is a wonderful harvest...they're also used to experimenting with foods in the kitchen (they've got culinary parents) so they've always been pretty good about that but I can tell you that they both went through for a small amount of time when they were younger (for a few months) about the things they ate but it was also a time for them both when they started school. They got into their own routines pretty quick though....yay!

Has anyone else noticed that school, pre-school, daycare etc. made a difference in kids food choices for a while?

Glad that you thought my article on Crabby Caribbean sounded like fun. It surely was,I am a huge fan of vegetables. My grandmother had a huge kitchen garden, and we were lucky enough to partake in harvesting and preparing them for consumption. I was impressed with your grandson eating your vegetarian meal, veggies and all. I like your Salmon recipe as well, did you see the Julie Julia Movie as yet? Greetings and good luck to you.

Nicki, would you post the recipe for homade avacado hummus please? I love avacados.

Hi Deborah, I loved the Crabby Caribbean I haven't seen the movie yet but would like to and also do my own review on it. We've been soooo busy lately with doctors and school so I am a bit behind there, I'm hoping soon though. And thanks for stopping by here....I wish you all the best as well!

Avocado hummus sounds delicious! Yes, do post the recipe!

That is wonderful!! It's good that your grandchild was willing to eat it and discovered how good it was.

I always tell my children, I do not expect them to like everything, but to at least try it and if they don't care for it that is fine. However if they like it, they now have something else to enjoy.

That is a great idea. I had a blackberry tree in my backyard and when the blackberries were in season, my kids would pick them and I would make pancakes, or fruit salad and add them. They loved it. Unfortunately when our new fence was installed, the tree was removed and I was upset.

Vance and I intend on adding a small veggie and herbal garden next year. we did a lot of renovations to our back yard this past season so there was no time to do it. I am looking forward to having freshly grown veggies next season.