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Jerry Seinfeld's Wife Deceives Her Children |
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 by Dale Raben, October 4, 2007 |
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Jessica Seinfeld, wife of Jerry Seinfeld, has come up with an ingenious way to get her three kids to eat their vegetables: she purees them and sneaks them into similar-colored foods that her kids actually like. For example, cauliflower puree in scrambled eggs, beet puree in chocolate cake, butternut squash puree in mac and cheese...it goes on and on. Now, when I first came across her blog, I was mortified. I thought she was crazy. And then I thought, no, she's a genius! She's a crazy genius is what she is! And not only did her idea win her a spot on Oprah's food Web site, she parlayed a book deal out of it, too.
But my question is this: if the only way you can get your kids to eat their veggies is by sneaking veggie mush (essentially baby food) into their meals, have you really won? I mean, I guess if your goal is not to make your kids like veggies, but simply to ingest them, then yes. But when her kids get older and realize what she's done to them, it'll probably be so traumatizing that they'll never even be able to look at another vegetable again let alone eat one.
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Dale Raben is a writer/editor/aspiring housewife living in Brooklyn, originally from South Florida. She's a children's book review editor and is currently pursuing a master's in English Literature and planning her More... |
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spoony
You may have to resort to this kind of subterfuge yourself one day when your kids go on a pizza and macdonalds hunger strike. Even if have a healthfood shopping, no tv watching kind of household, it can happen. Trust me.
coconutlime
How did she get a whole cookbook out of that? A short article I can see, but a whole book?
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Simpleliquid
Subterfuge is the aid of every parent trying to get their kid to eat. I wouldn't worry about trauma. Would you worry that your kid would be traumatized when he finds out that the carrots you were feeding him aren't airplanes or that broccoli isn't really tiny trees (and your kid isn't really a giant)? And what parent hasn't snuck in something healthy into a meatball before. It's standard fare.
At some point when I was in my 20's I told my mom that my tuna sandwiches just didn't taste as good as hers and she actually told me the reason. It turned out that, since I didn't like crunchy things in my food, that when I was a kid she added shredded onion to the tuna. I wonder if Seinfeld's kids are going to be wondering why nobody's chocolate cake or mac n'cheese tastes like mom's.
karen183
I have to agree with the article, it's a pretty good idea to get them
to eat veggies with colors, but you are right, it might not help them to eat veggies by themselves. I
will be honest, i don't like veggies much myself, but i think some
vegetables do taste good. Maybe the best way is to try to find
vegetables that your kids actually like. After this, they can eat
dessert ;)
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