Ana and Eva are both more-or-less vegetarian

[conuly]

Neither of them is 100% on the no-meat front, but they're sincerely trying to cut down on how much of that they eat. (Alas, my mother wants meat at every meal, and while I say "If I can't make everybody happy I'll have to settle for making myself happy instead", in practice I've started trying to alternate meat nights with no-meat nights, with the missing-out party having to eat the sides.) Today we had pasta with vegetables and pancetta, which is great because everybody will eat it and it's easy for me to just serve the kids first and then dump the pancetta in the pot for the rest of us.

Eva, perhaps predictably, ate her pasta, nibbled her peppers, and went to eat an orange. "Why'd you put spinach in this!?"

"Because spinach is good for you. It's got lots of iron, calcium, vitamin c, and fiber. Oh, and potassium too!"
"Blech."
"Well, you know, Eva, vegetarian means you eat vegetables."
"But spinach isn't a vegetable!"
"What?"
"You can't cut it, and anyway, vegetables are more fruity."
"More... fruity?"
"Like bell peppers and cucumbers. They have seeds. Spinach is leaves."

I don't know where she got this interesting idea from either.

Comments

[alatefeline]

Yarbs are what the wise weirdos makes tea out of to cure everything, of course!

[conuly]

:D

I said that herbs are aromatic and typically eaten in small portions. "So what if you ate a whole bowl of basil?" "Then I guess we'd say the basil was being treated as a vegetable instead of an herb." "THAT MAKES NO SENSE!"

[alatefeline]

briefly misread this as 'herbs are aromantic'

was delighted by the misread

have a cartoon about queer vegetables:
http://kimchicuddles.com/post/183218558040/weetzie-zucchini-broccolini-3-tikvawolfcom

which would make families of all sorts salads

pleasingly bringing us back to the part where you get to argue vegetables with your smols

[conuly]

She's 13 now!

[alatefeline]

how can that be

not allowed, why do they keep GROWING

[conuly]

I HAVE NO IDEA. I could've sworn it was only yesterday she was snuggled up in the wrap.

[alatefeline]

well obviously

you've been feeding them right




*cracks up cackling and snorting with laughter*

[conuly]

*snrk*

Honestly, I think I'm finally out of the hole I fell into during The Year My Mom Had Cancer. We had so much mcdonald's and pizza that year....

[alatefeline]

<3

[pauamma]

briefly misread this as 'herbs are aromantic

I often misread the other way, which is perhaps less delighting.

And for some reason, I'm reminded of this Supreme Court case.

[conuly]

As long as we all agree that ketchup is a condiment and not a vegetable.