Sneaky Veges

We have instigated a new dinner plan in the household. We are starting each meal with a raw salad. We pop the bowl in the middle of the table and everybody is allowed to serve themselves. My reason is twofold ...I LOVE salad and everyone else does not eat enough veges.

O5 usually complains..."Not MORE Salad...sigh"...but then proceeds to grab great hunks of lettuce/beetroot/carrot /whatever else is on offer and munces through the lot.

A3 has progressed from a single baby lettuce leaf to about 10 assorted salad greens, plus tomato.

C3 LOVES Salad and will happily munch away on anything and everything from Feta Cheese,olives, capsicum, to any kind of greens...including celery and then completes his feast by drinking the remaining dressing from the bottom of his bowl.

E1 screws up his face, chews for a while and then we usually find goopy salad hidden in his highchair later...by the time he is three he will be eating a plateful also.

I have found since we began this that the rest of my mains are now about 1/3 smaller and I *think* I may have lost some weight. Bonus all round.

J is graciously eating Salad but I know he really is hanging out for a big juicy steak...roll on summer BBQ weather and he can have both!

The kids are also getting sneaky veges in our fabbo homemade, wholemeal pizza.

This one was Mediterranean...had spinach, feta, olives, red onions, mushrooms, fresh basil and parsley and so forth on it. (Basically leftovers from the salad the previous evening)...MMMMM....