Veggies

I try hard to serve a variety of fruits and veggies throughout the week--keeps things interesting more than anything, although the health benefits are also nice. I end up choosing within our budget and the appropriate season (peaches in January and grapefruit in July just are not good), however, and we often cycle between broccoli, peas, salad and asparagus.

Today at the grocery store, wiggling Timmy in arm, we were standing at the checkout with a girl that seemed to be learning the ropes a little. Or at least I'm assuming. Here's another dialogue for your amusement.

Check-out girl: What's this? Is this lettuce?
Me: Yes--green leaf.
Check-out girl: What's this?
Me: a jalapeno pepper.
Check-out girl: What's this?
Me: Zucchini.
Check-out girl: What's this?
Me: avocados.
Check-out girl: Both of them?
Me: Yes.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised. A lot of kids don't eat many vegetables with dinner if they eat dinner at home at all. I've come to expect the question with things like shallots or certain herbs, but the lettuce and zucchini kind of surprised me.

Timmy's certainly going to get his share of variety--we just ordered all of our seeds, and right behind him in the first picture is where the garden is going to go--I'm so excited! We're definitely expanding this year, and given how much our little guy likes to be outside, I think I'll have a lot more time to weed and harvest. I'm going to plant an herb garden right outside the door and we're going to plant our corn and pumpkins separate (we're doing a lot more corn and the pumpkins completely took over half the garden last year is why). Anyway, that leaves a lot more room in the original plot for quite a smattering of crops. We'll see how it goes.