{"id":7520,"date":"2011-12-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/togethercounts.com\/the-great-vegetable-battle\/"},"modified":"2011-12-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T00:00:00","slug":"the-great-vegetable-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/togethercounts.com\/es\/the-great-vegetable-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Vegetable Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Since becoming a parent, vegetables have been the bane of my existence. Personally, I love them, and I\u2019ve found lots of great ways to cook them so that the 18-and-up members of my blended family all love them, too.<\/p>\n

My four and seven-year-olds, however, are another story. They hate vegetables. They\u2019ve always<\/em> hated vegetables, no matter how I\u2019ve cooked them. And well-meaning advice from friends, doctors, magazines and websites hasn\u2019t made my plight any easier.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy Hunterton has always loved <\/em>vegetables,\u201d I remember one mom telling me breezily at a playgroup meeting, after I had plaintively asked for her advice on how to get my then-two-year-old daughter to try broccoli. \u201cI\u2019m sure I don\u2019t know what to tell you. Hunterton begs<\/em> for broccoli every night. And peas. And kale.\u201d Not surprisingly, three-year-old Hunterton also spoke Mandarin. And he was a chess prodigy. And he had already been admitted to Harvard. Or so his mom would have me believe\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cKeep giving them vegetables every night,\u201d a pediatrician advised shortly after that. \u201cEventually, they\u2019ll learn to like them.\u201d That was four years ago. I\u2019M STILL WAITING.<\/p>\n

Try these kid-friendly recipes and you can\u2019t go wrong!<\/em> a parenting magazine crowed a few months later. Eagerly, I scanned the recipe titles. Spinach Custard with Tomatoes? Chilled Pea Soup? Mashed Carrots Infused with Loganberry Jam? I stifled a dry heave. Whose kids were eating this stuff, and how much were they paying them to do it?<\/p>\n

Today, seven years into the small-child parenting game, I\u2019ve learned a thing or two about kids and vegetables.<\/p>\n