Stealth Veggie Recipes: Mac'N'Cheese

Reader Contribution by S.M.R. Saia
Published on January 6, 2011
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Once upon a time I had a little girl who ate Indian food with me. Lentil and minestrone soups. Raw sweet potatoes. Beans. She asked to have broccoli for dinner. She asked to have peas.

I have no idea what happened to that child.

Nowadays I’ve got a Mac’n’cheese and hot dog and chicken finger kid. She eats bread with ketchup, and tortilla chips with ketchup. Last night I even saw her taste yogurt with ketchup (yuck!).

It’s not all bad – I mean, she does like and eat plain yogurt. And raw carrots and all kinds of raw fruits. And you should see her dive into a plate of calamari. And she drinks milk, which is more than I can say that I did when I was little. She’s still a far cry from my peanut butter and jelly sandwich days. And it’s an old family story that for a long time a certain family member would eat nothing but tomato soup. Still, these days I find myself thinking of my mother naming a casserole after me because I hated it (I like it now). I find myself thinking of my father saying, “One day when you’re grown up I’m going to come to your house for dinner, and no matter what you put in front of me, I’m going to say ‘yuck!'” (He has never actually done this.)

All of which is to say that – sigh – I’m really feeling my position as a parent these days.

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