Look! He ate green things!

To encourage all members of the household to try out our many veggies this summer, I’m planning to create a bingo board with names of various vegetables filling the boxes.  We’ll mark off a square each time we try something on the board.  First person to hit bingo gets to make plans for a family outing to places he/she wants to visit.  Hopefully, this will make the mysterious veggies more appealing and will make the whole adventure more fun for the kids.

My youngest is a very picky eater.  He eats these things: cheese, bread, peanut butter and jelly, apples, cereal, bananas, graham crackers, chicken nuggets, sausage, pancakes, chocolate milk, and apple juice.  And that’s about it.  Literally.  Yes, you are reading that correctly, not a single vegetable on the list.  He doesn’t just not like vegetables, not a single one has passed through his lips his entire life (edited to clarify: I was a good mama and fed him vegetables when he was eating the mushed-up kind.  Somehow, it trailed off after that as he became picky).

How did we get here?  I don’t know exactly.  If he were our first child, we would have tried harder to encourage him to eat a wider variety of foods.  However, he is the blessed second child.  The one who gets fewer photos in the baby book and less stifling attentive parents.  With two young boys and two full-time jobs, we felt lucky to get dinner on the table with the four of us around it, so we weren’t all that into dinner time battles over food.

It didn’t seem to be a big deal to give our toddler a piece of cheese or bread instead of a dinner plate, but somehow that toddler turned into a pre-kindergartner in a blink of an eye.  In the meanwhile, he developed a very limited palate.

Right now, he thinks vegetable is a bad word.  Maybe a little vegetable bingo will entice him.

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