Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Vegetables are gross

I have a hard time making vegetables for dinner. Neither Eric nor I are very big fans of vegetables. In fact, Eric is even less of a fan than I am. I like the basics: lettuce, carrots, and corn. I will at times eat peppers and I had steamed broccoli yesterday (with cheese on top of course) and it was fairly decent. I love ketchup, but don't care too much for tomatoes. Anyway, I was getting the lettuce ready for tonight's ceasar salad (our favorite "vegetable") and was thinking about how I make Kaylin eat sweet potatoes and squash. I don't like either. But she LOVES them. I was thinking that it's pretty sad that I'm getting this girl hooked on two vegetables that she won't eat again, well, except perhaps Thanksgiving dinner. I was also thinking about how the "baby experts" say that you should feed your baby a new food 10-15 times in order for them to develop a taste for it. Then the question came to my mind... what if I ate a vegetable I don't like 10-15 times, let's say peas. What if I ate a serving of peas every day for two weeks? Would I like them at the end of my trial? I know that people can acquire tastes, I've heard many stories from returned missionaries about that. But I don't really want to find out. I'm fine not liking peas.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

I can guarantee that if ate lima beans for 2 weeks straight I would still think they were disgusting!

Linda said...
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