Persistence equals success
MONDAY: Fruits and VegetablesSpringtime to me means Asparagus! I love it. My kids however, haven’t been so eager to try it. However, as we’ve been eating better, I have come to realize one constant thing. The key to getting your kids to try new vegetables or other food is to KEEP TRYING! Don’t give up. Saturday night they finally tried asparagus and they ALL loved it! They even asked me to cook some more, but we didn’t have any more.
I can’t tell you how excited I was that I never gave up. Parenting can be hard. Parenting properly (by teaching healthy habits) can be frustrating when your kids resist. But I beg you to not give up. The foods your kids eat as children, will most likely be the diets they keep as adults.
Our Asparagus is cooked in 3 TBL butter and 3 TBL brown sugar. Saute for 3 minutes. Add 1/2 or 1 cup of broth and simmer for 8 minutes. The flip-flopper added salt to hers, and ketchup boy dipped his in ketchup of course.
Speaking on Vegetables. I found a podcast this weekend with some great posts! Its produced by Vegan, Colleen Patrick-Gourdreau of Compassionate Cooks. We are clearly not vegan, and I haven’t listened to any of her shows about the treatment of animals, however listening to her ideas on getting more whole foods into your diet is nothing short of inspiring. Go here,and listen to the second show down titles, The Compassionate Kitchen, Eating healthfully in a recession.
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Posted: April 13th, 2009 under Dinner, Fruits and Vegetables.
Tags: asparagus, Dinner, eating, healthy, kids, persistance, try and try again, vegan, veggies
Comments
Comment from Tia
Time April 13, 2009 at 6:23 am
Amy-
We eat Asparagus weekly if we can! Our favorite way is to put them in a ziplock bag, add a drizzle of olive oil, a shake of garlic salt and a shake of lemon pepper and then grill them. In the winter I do the same thing, except I just roast them in the oven at 450 for 7-8 minutes (turn them once). They are so delicious!
Comment from Liz Rosenbaum
Time April 13, 2009 at 7:51 am
I LOVE asparagus!!! But what I don’t love, is the “Asparagus PEE smell” that comes immediately after eating it! HA HA! Have you ever noticed that? LOL! I know it’s a gross, and maybe inappropriate comment, but I sure wish there was a way to avoid that after eating asparagus! 
Comment from Alex
Time April 13, 2009 at 2:09 pm
We LOVE asparagus so much that I purchased 7 lbs last week when it was on sale for $1.49/lb. We always cook ours the same way: drizzle with olive oil and lemon juice (approx. 1 lemon per lb), sprinkle with pepper, salt and crushed red pepped. Bake at 425 for 15-20 minutes, turning once. DELICIOUS!
Comment from Michelle G
Time April 13, 2009 at 8:42 pm
My kids LOVE asparagus. I steam it, broil it or grill it. They can’t get enough. We are lucky that we can get it at the farmer’s market.
Comment from Char
Time April 13, 2009 at 5:07 am
My kids ate asparagus for the first time yesterday. 2 out of 3 didn’t like it, but for the one who did it was a major victory.
I made mine by spreading the asparagus out on a pan, drizzling it with olive oil and a sprinkle of salt and roasting it for 10 min. It was delicious. I also made a cashew curry mayo to go with it for the grown ups which was also a hit.