Kids Eat Your Veggies

Growing up my mother always told me how important eating your veggies was. She told me that strong boys eat salad every day just like Papi the sailor man. I couldn’t do it! The taste of salad disgusted me. I was never and still am not a fan of anything creamy or too thick. I didn’t understand how people thought salad dressing sweetens salad; to me it just added a weird twist to the salad that I wasn’t fond of. Maybe the reason why I am only 5’9 today is because I failed to eat my veggies as a child. I really tried to bare the taste but I just couldn’t get use to the taste. I even tried my grandfather’s concoction of veggies like beetroot, carrots, and many others blended into a drink. It comes out being this purple nasty looking drink that he drank with his breakfast every morning. I tried it for a week, but eventually I could no longer hold my nose and chug it; the taste was just too horrid. I am not sure what age I started liking salad. I think it was once when my mom made me a salad with an amazing homemade dressing. It was her last attempt of getting me to eat salad. I have no idea what she put in it but I loved it so much that I even put it on my rice as gravy. To me it was an all purpose dressing. Now when I am home, I even have salads for breakfast almost every morning. I watch my little cousins fight the same battle I once fought trying every little thing to get out of eating the veggies put before them at the dinner table. I’ve never tried to get them to eat up their veggies because I know that one day they will. They just need to find what works for them. It looks like when it comes to veggies, everybody just needs to find their own way. I know what I’ll be telling my children; kids eat your veggies, how you want to eat your veggies.