Purplicious

Food should be in color.
I have taken a stand. I've decided that I'm tired of my kids turning their cute little noses up at any food that has color.  I don't understand it.  Kids should LOVE things with lots of colors, right?  Mine don't.  So, I've come up with a scheme to get them to enjoy colorful food.  This week began my experiment of having color weeks.  The kids get to choose a color and every week, we are going to eat as many foods of that color as we can, with the requirement that atleast 3 of these foods have to be NEW (to them).

So....

HAPPY PURPLE WEEK!

Noah got to choose the color this week.  It was fun taking them to the fruit stand to choose purple foods.  We bought black grapes (usually we buy red, so these are technically new), plums, blueberries and eggplant.  We also made purple smoothies.

Another rule of color week: It doesn't count to dye another food that color (that was a suggestion made by Kimball...purple eggs) - it has to be a food that exists in that color all by itself.

The reviews:

Grapes:

K :) :) :)  N :) :) :)  S :) :) :)

Plums:

K :)  N :) :)  S :) :) :)

Blueberries:

(cooked in pancakes)

K :)  N :)  S :) :) :)

Blueberries:

(raw)

K :(  N :(  S :) :) :) (this girl LOVES fruit)

Eggplant:

(eggplant parmesian)

K :)  N :(  S :(

So fun!!  I think we'll enjoy this experiment. Kimball has chosen ORANGE for next week.

YAY FOR COLOR!