the not-so culinary wonder & a giveaway too

Every now and then, my culinary skills surprise even myself. After tucking my children into bed the other night, I began to clean the kitchen. (I never finished, mind you. I began.) As I cleared the dinner dishes I reveled in the triumph of serving my children a healthy dinner that they actually ate. I made a stew of sorts: chopped up misc. veggies, threw in odds & ends of dry pasta, experimented with seasonings. It was fabulous. For dessert, they engulfed home-canned peaches. All I needed was an apron and a house dress to be the picture of proper mothering. Then the clock ticked and my moment of ego-centric satisfaction came to a screeching halt. It was then that I started also putting away the Fruity Pebbles from breakfast and tried to remember if I had actually fed the kids lunch or not.

My children happen to be allergic to milk. I allow this little kink in kitchen creation to be an excuse to not cook a lot of variety or force them to eat many veggies. If I couldn't slather mine with ranch dressing & melted cheese, I wouldn't eat it either.

Luckily my son has decided that broccoli is at least edible with barbecue sauce for dip. Gag. The only time I have ever thrown up while pregnant don't hate me was the day I tried to convince him that broccoli was really good and took a bite myself. Double gag.

A solution for the broccoli gag:


Cute right?
This lovely little book will be signed by the author herself, wrapped and stashed snugly underneath our Christmas tree. Page after page of amazing images that call-me-a-convert actually make veggies look appetizing and fun.

My obsessed with lions-tigers-ligers-and-all-things-that-roar son will be thrilled to learn that the hungry noises in his hungry tummy (when his tired mommy is sleeping in bed instead of making him breakfast), are actually zoo animals growling for food. It might just even buy me an extra 5 minutes of sleep each morning.



Want one to stash under your tree too? We (Dr. Magoomagraf & I) are giving one away. Dr. Magoomagraf will even sign it for you. Go ahead, ooooo and ahhhhh.



The down low, 411, fine print, rules & regs:



1 entry: leave a comment telling your favorite and least favorite fruit/veggie.
extra entry: go to the Zoo in My Belly site and come back & tell us all what you love.
5 extra entries, (just to add a little spice): email me OR post on your own blog a picture of you or your child eating a fruit or veggie
5 MORE extra entries: blog or email all your friends about the contest


Contest ends Sunday, 11:59 pm, MST.



The good Dr. Magoomagraf is also hosting a fun contest here.
See you at the zoo.