CommuterMom: Juice

Like most toddlers, CommuterGirl’s diet consists of mac-n-cheese, chicken fingers, waffles, plain turkey meatballs, yogurt, and any fruit she can get her hands on. We try hard to buy all-natural or organic versions of those foods so that at least she is getting healthy chicken fingers…but there is no variety in her diet. And no, she won’t eat sandwiches. I recently bought Deceptively Delicious. For those of you who don’t know, the idea behind the recipes is to cook and puree vegetables and “hide” them in the foods your child loves. For example, add spinach into your brownies, cauliflower to your mac-n-cheese. Great idea…but who has time to cook and puree all those vegetables, let alone cook the mac-n-cheese and brownies from scratch every night? Is it really worth the small amount of veggies it will add to her diet?

I did have a great discovery over the weekend. I was making green juice and CommuterGirl was watching. The carrot juice spitting out of the juicer caught her eye and she was intrigued. She wanted to try some of Mommy’s juice…she drank a whole glass. I may be on to something, green juice for both of us.

CommuterGirl’s Green Juice
1 apple
½ cucumber
2 - 3 handfuls spinach
1 carrot
1 stalk celery
½ peeled lemon
½ inch peeled ginger