Spinach?

We try to encourage the boys to eat a variety of fruits and vegetables. Fruits are never a problem... they LOVE fruit. Veggies are hit or miss. We do well with green beans, broccoli, salad, carrots, corn, peppers and a few others as well. They struggle with others such as edamame and spinach (I can't comment on how they do with peas. Peas are on my top 3 list of foods that make me gag, so I never feed the boys peas because that would mean I would have to eat them and I just can't do it. I have to swallow them like aspirin in order to get them down and the smell alone is enough to put me over the edge... but I digress). I have recently learned, however, that if you put fresh spinach into a smoothie, sure, it turns the smoothie a strange color, but the taste of spinach is almost undetectable. It's fantastic! We told the boys they had spinach in their smoothie, but they didn't believe us the first few times. Then, they saw us putting the spinach in and were shocked. So, here's the tip for he day... add fresh spinach to your smoothie and get an extra serving of vegetables.

Tonight's dinner? Blueberries and whole wheat, white cheddar macaroni.

Smoothie (consisting of chocolate soy milk, frozen blueberries, raspberries and black berries, 1 jar of homemade yogurt, and about 2-3 cups of spinach. Sure, sounds nasty, but don't knock it until you try it!).
And one boy with Bert like uni-brow and handlebar chocolate mustache.