I don’t quite know why, but my son’s favorite number is the letter “W”! Comments like “I am W years old”, or “This diesel has W freight cars” make perfect sense to him, while everybody else has to scratch their head to crack his code! Sometimes he also simply replaces a letter with “W” mid sentence to create his own emphasis. Quite silly of course, but the way he says it comes out very funny!
In the spirit of sharing funny mealtime stories and funny comments as part of Big Words Little Foodies from Jenna of KidAppeal, I thought of writing about how he responded to TwinToddlerMom’s simple, yet nutritious orzo soup with carrots:
Me: Hey guys! Look what we have for dinner today! This is a yummy soup! And look at those carrots – they have so much vitamin A which is good for your eyes.
Daughter: They have vitamin A? That is so silly….I want to try, I want to try….
Son: No. They have vitamin W. Mom – can you give me some vitamin W soup?
I waited patiently to see if they would actually try the soup and nibble on a few carrots from the soup. While my daughter enjoyed it, No such luck with my son - he took a few spoons of the soup, but the carrots were untouched.
Me: How many carrots did you eat today?
Son: (Pause) Hmmm…W Carrots!
This was not going the way I had anticipated!
Then we tried to offer him a raw, uncut baby carrot out of our salad to see if he would go for that. Sure enough, he took it and started nibbling on it. Guess, he just likes them crunchy!
Here is the recipe for the orzo-carrot soup if you want to give it a try -
Ingredients:
- 2 cups low sodium chicken broth
- 2 cups water
- 1-2 medium tomatoes, diced or crushed in a food processor
- 1/2 cup orzo
- 1/2 cup uncut baby carrots, washed
- 1 tbsp tomato paste
- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1/2 cup chopped parsley or cilantro
Method:
Add olive oil to a 1 quart saucepan and mix in tomato paste and crushed tomatoes. Add water and chicken broth and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium, add orzo and carrots and simmer until orzo is cooked and carrots are soft. Add in cilantro or parsley. Serve with lemon.
Enjoy!
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hilarious, love the vitamin W story. i don’t get it because i do not like raw carrots and prefer most veggies cooked, but it is the case with my two that they first accepted most veggies raw as i was prepping dinner, and picked over them at meal times. now they are older, they both eat most raw and cooked veggies, but it took longer to get them on cooked veggies. thank you for playing!
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