The trouble with greens: A small victory
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- November
- 8
Our efforts to get Rafael to eat more greens have borne more fruit (vegetables?) of late. The newest victory? Brussels sprouts.
We figured the sprouts might win our picky boy over, seeing as they’re a member of the cabbage family and Rafael really likes cabbage. 
So, we figured, why not try the über-mini-cabbages?
We learned long ago with Rafael that it’s all in how we sell it.
Cabbage is cool. Tomorrow, we told him, you can try Brussels sprouts, maybe. They’re Hobbit food, we told him.
We often make Brussels sprouts when we have steak, and we were having steak that night.
He was kind of excited to try.
As usual, he was suspicious when he first looked at it. But he would only truy one leaf at first.
Then, a quarter of a sprout. Then another.
Soon enough, he’d eaten two whole sprouts. Along with a whole lot of meat, as usual.
Bonus.
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on Saturday, November 8th, 2008 at 9:16 am by Amy Vernon.
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We tried Brussels Sprouts with my 2 year old and called them veggie balls. We also told her the real name but any thing shaped like a ball is usually cool to most toddlers. She ate a few as well!