Sneaky Greens

The Sprog is always starving at breakfast time and has eaten everything – pancakes, oatmeal, Weetabix cereal – we’ve put in front of him. Today, I made him his traditional “super” Weetabix, thick enough to stick on his uncertain spoon, with milk, protein powder, and brewer’s yeast, and added a teaspoon of powdered spirulina which is rich in amino acids and beta-kerotene. We were a little concerned that he would be put off by his cereal being a very vivid green color, but he woofed it down as usual.



For dinner, I made a quesadilla where pureed broccoli was hidden between the layers of cheese and tortilla, and he could dip it in hummus, his favorite sauce (where we have hidden spirulina before, by the way). He never drinks juice during the day, only water and milk with breakfast, but I made an exception tonight and gave him a glass of Naked “Green Machine” juice in his sippy cup and he loved it. I suppose I could have juiced apples, bananas, kiwi, mango, pineapple, together with spirulina, chlorella, broccoli, spinach, garlic, barley grass, wheat grass, ginger, and parsley, but sometimes a little convenience is nice.

Also introduced him to blueberries to go with his much-loved dessert of sliced strawberries. The bowl was cleaned out.