Z for Zeker who hates V vegetables!
Over the past few months, the kids have picked a lot of vegetables from our garden. We grow all sorts of veggies such as pea, eggplant, zucchini, cucumber, and tomatoes. We have varieties of tomato as well, the sweet cherry tomato, which is Jaynann's favorite. The bigger ones, we picked them to give to friends and to make yummy tomato soup.
Late last night, I made a big pot of tomato soup. So tonight we got to try my tomato soup for the first time. Knowing that eating vegetable soup would not go well with Zeke, I had to soon come up with a plan ; ) After pouring Jaynann and big bowl of tomato soup to go with her grilled cheese sandwiches, I poured just a tiny small bowl for Zeke to test his pickiness.
"NO," he said. "Darn it," I was not happy with his rejection. After a quick thinking, I remembered having goldfish crackers in the pantry. I grabbed a hand full for both of them. "Zeke, look! Here's a a fish named George and Lukas (a baby next door). I crossed my fingers hoping this trick would have to work. He paused for a few minutes, then he said, "Here's a Max fish (his buddy next door), Marcus (the kid's dad), and a few more fish including daddy fish, mommy fish, and sissy fish. All those fish had been named and eaten by Zeker bug, how amazing! So 30 fish swam in Zeke's bowl tonight and all of them had names and stories before they got consumed, yeah! We had to fill the bowl a couple of times. Hahaha, the joy of seeing Zeke and Jaynann happy, the joy of cooking for the ones you love, and the joy of tricking a child to eat his vegetable soup.
See for yourself! Victory is mine at last :)
P.S. Zeke must have recalled me cooking the soup last night. Because after looking at the soup he said "spaghetti sauce, ketchup. I guess maybe he didn't mind it eating tomato after all.
