We Put The F In Awesome: Bionicle Soup

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Bionicle Soup

I always have a hard time getting my boys to eat the dinners that I make. Seriously, I slave away trying to make dinner every night and the only thing that comes out of their mouths is, "Ew, gross." So lately I have been making up names to the things I cook: like Bionicle Soup. This is just a simple pasta soup with a tomato base and a couple vegetables. But since I call it "Bionicle" then they suddenly think it is the best tasting food ever. Except for Ben. You can't really trick him. My boys also like Lego Chicken, Shrek surprise, and the new Madagascar 2 lasagna. If your kids are struggling with eating, try this! It really works!

2 comments:

Liz said...: That's a great idea! Ha!; February 18, 2009 at 1:14 PM
Michelle said...: Yes! I love it. Cade is officially obsessed with food that will make him big and strong. No doubt bionicle soup is right down his alley!; March 3, 2009 at 12:05 AM

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favorite sayings of our boys

After graduating from preschool, the boys and I were walking to the car. Ben was a little sad and said, "I kind of don't want to go to Kindergarten, because most of the kids there are Chinese." (What?)
Isaac: I think Michael Jackson should be on American Idol. He would smoke everyone!
Ben: I know why it rains. Because Jesus is sad that everyone is evil so he is crying.
The twins call adults "humans". So Ben was talking to Jake saying, "When you grow up you get to be a human."
Jake's new thing is to call girl's "ladies". We were at Costa Vida and Jacob came out of the play area and said, "That lady in there is being mean." He then pointed to a little girl. The next day he woke up and said, "I had a dream that I kissed a lady."
The boys were talking about going to Cabella's. Ben said, "Is she going to be there?" John said, "What?" Ben replied, "Cabella. Is she going to be there?"
John was explaining the Law of Consecration and how we will put everything in a big pile and each take out what we need(an easy explanation). Isaac said, "Are there going to be kids in the pile? You can throw me in there!"
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The other morning Ben was checking out my pudgy post pregnancy arms and while grabbing them he said, "You look like the Hulk!" I guess that's better than calling me fat!
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I always laugh at the misinterpreted words Enoch says. The other night at the dinner table he was trying to get the twins to eat by saying, "You better eat. There are starving children in Australia." I think he meant Ethiopia. John told Enoch we were going to take the newly found turtle to the pound if we couldn't find it's owner. A couple hours later Enoch says,"I don't want to take the turtle to the hound."
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