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Friday, December 04, 2009

Jessica Seinfeld - You Are 1 for 3

A friend lent me a cookbook by Jessica Seinfeld (wife to Jerry Seinfeld) called "Deceptively Delicious". The point of each recipe is to sneak some sort of veggie of fruit puree into a recipe and get your kids to eat it.

First thing I tried was her "Buttered Noodles" which include yellow squash. Brooke likes yellow squash so I thought it might be an easy sell. Not so much. She ate two pieces and whipped the rest on the floor. I had the sitter try to feed it to her for lunch yesterday and the result was the same.

Next I tried the sweet potato pancake recipe. Brooke loves pancakes. But with these, she actually tried to stick her hand down her throat to try and throw back up the little that she actually did consume.

This morning we had "Green Eggs", which have a spinach puree.

Success! She ate them! Yay!

I'm not sure if one out of three is a very good ratio. I have one or two others I plan to try - including a mac & cheese recipe and one for mozzarella sticks. We will see how that goes...