Trying to get kids to eat vegetables

Nothing serious, but I found it funny the other day in the paper that even grocery stores have problems trying to get people to eat vegetables. Check out the weekly ad from the grocery store. That's right! If you buy potato chips, then they will throw in up to $2 of fruits and vegetables free! But really, potato chips are a vegetable already, this would just let you eat more vegetables.

As parents, I am sure that we have all experienced the agonizing stall tactics of a child and the pleading, bargaining, threatening, and mental anguish that we suffer when we ask our children to have another bite of peas. In my day, my mother and father would tell me how Popeye loved spinach and if I wanted to grow strong like Popeye, I would need to eat spinach. My daughter Delaney learned that a "couple" is two people and that means that a "couple of bites" is two bites. That was when we had to change our language to "please have a few more bites" She still doesn't know how many a few is but she knows it is more than a couple.

So tonight, over dinner, and the children stall on the last few bites of peas, carrots, or zucchini, try and offer them potato chips and see if it works for you.