taste the rainbow
July 17th, 2008
For dinner tonight, we made rainbows. I’ve been trying to think of ways to get our kids to eat colorful veggies, and looking at the mango/pistachio/yogurt combination I was snacking on, thought, “hmmmm, I wonder if we’ve got a rainbow of foods?”
Our rainbows were:
blueberries
dried cherries
red bell pepper
cherry tomatoes
valencia oranges
mango
apricots from next door
cheddar cheese
saturn peaches
walnuts
turkey sticks (gerber)
2 whole wheat pretzel sticks
pistachios
frozen peas
Other good rainbow foods:
spinach, snap peas, snow peas, broccoli, edamame, honey dew, cucumber, mushrooms, banana, eggs, apple, pear, brown rice, cheeses (brie/monterrey jack), dark breads, nuts (pine nuts/sunflower seeds/almonds), jicama, plums/pluots, grapes, watermelon, salmon, shrimp …
Will was just as excited about eating as he was about helping and I had to fill up several of his mini muffin cups 3 or 4 times.