23 Comments

• 1. StillRob  |  October 15th, 2006 at 10:53 pm

  Spinach. It germs my dears.

• 2. Spot the Wonder Dog  |  October 16th, 2006 at 1:49 am

  Yeah, well if Bambi had eaten his spinach instead of eating meadow grass, he could have kicked the @ss of the hunter who shot his mom.

  Oh! Oh! Here you go… next time you feed them Shredded Wheat, tell them they are some of Bambi’s special “meadow muffins”.

• 3. sogalitno  |  October 16th, 2006 at 1:58 am

  i have a great VERY EASY and quick spinach quiche recipe if you are interested…

  ;o

• 4. CrankMama  |  October 16th, 2006 at 5:48 am

  Canadian peacemakers come in handy…. as do vegetables associated with disney characters… I’m filing this one so I remember.

• 5. JustLinda  |  October 16th, 2006 at 9:15 am

  You make your kids eat SPINACH? What kind of evil, abusive mother are you????

  We just have sides of MARSHMALLOWS. I find it really diminishes the dinnertime tension, ya know?

• 6. Emptyman  |  October 16th, 2006 at 9:32 am

  My mother, God love her, was the worst spinach-cooker of all time. I didn’t realize spinach was something other than dark green boiled slime until I was 18 and moved out of the house. I love it now, but I couldn’t stand it when I was a kid.

• 7. Simon  |  October 16th, 2006 at 10:12 am

  My parents used to hide it in the lasagna. Kinda like that Garfield comic strip where Garfield removed the labels from all of Jon’s cans who then made some “tuna’ casserole for the both of them.

  I mean, it’s lasagna, so it’s good, but it has spinach in it, which, when you’re 5, is evil. So it was sort of like eating in Limbo.

  (PS — Jenn, my most recent trip to the dentist last month yielded two cavities in the SAME molar! You can tell David I’ve been flossing nearly every day for the past three weeks and intend to continue in that vein…)

• 8. Vikki  |  October 16th, 2006 at 10:17 am

  Perhaps it is time for a showing of Popeye.

• 9. Heather  |  October 16th, 2006 at 10:32 am

  I echo Vikki’s comment. Definitely time for Popeye.

  Whenever my mom served spinach when we were kids, my little brother and I would flex our biceps and say “Lookit how STRONG spinach makes me!” “I’m STRONGER than you cuz I ate more spinach.”

• 10. jen  |  October 16th, 2006 at 10:37 am

  it really is all about popeye. there has been no other creative marketing campaign since…well, besides bambi grass..which is pretty good too.

• 11. Kristin  |  October 16th, 2006 at 2:11 pm

  We call it Basil. But they are on to us.

• 12. Contrary  |  October 16th, 2006 at 2:11 pm

  I keep trying to convince my youngest that broccoli is actually very small trees. He’s not easliy fooled, at least in this.

  I do recall one time having one of those little pink coconut zingers and not wanting to share it with the little beggers who live in my house, so I told them it was a tomato sauce and rice zinger.

  Ooh! And then that one time, I convinced them that the funny shaped dog food that came in a sample pack in the mail was a new kind of cereal. Sugary cereal that they would probably love.

  Ah, memories. I suppose I won’t be too surprised when they stick me in the bargain rate nursing home when I’m old. I kind of deserve it.

• 13. geogirl  |  October 16th, 2006 at 5:43 pm

  “It can be all things to everyone! Yay!”

  Um…exactly what kind of GAS were you on?

• 14. Margaret  |  October 16th, 2006 at 7:13 pm

  Very clever, Jen. I remember babysitting my niece and nephew who had been snacking all day. Finally I sent them outside to play and got a bowl of sherbet for myself. In they came and kept asking “What do you have?” I told them it was a figment of their imagination. They are now 22 and 25 respectively, and they still call orange sherbet “figments.”

• 15. anonymom  |  October 17th, 2006 at 3:40 pm

  Basil. Hmm… that has a different meaning in our house…

• 16. ChristyD  |  October 18th, 2006 at 12:34 am

  I agree with jen, Bambi grass is the best marketing idea spinach has had since Popeye. You’re on to something. Of course if Disney ever gets hold of it, they’ll mess it all up, kill off someone’s mom and proces the idea until it’s too bland even for Bambi.

  LOL at Spot’s meadow muffins.

• 17. the Mater  |  October 20th, 2006 at 10:14 pm

  I remember serving you guys liver and onions when you were little and renaming it roast beef. I don’t think you bought it either.

  Bambi grass is kinda nice. The kids like spinach to begin with so you probably don’t have to worry.

  It’s not that easy being green.

• 18. s@bd  |  October 22nd, 2006 at 9:32 pm

  ahem.

  We’re peaceKEEPERS, not peacemakers.

  World of difference, doncha’ know?

• 19. Tina  |  October 23rd, 2006 at 12:40 pm

  I am amazed that they eat the spinach, whatever name you give it.

• 20. coley  |  October 23rd, 2006 at 3:36 pm

  You are a great mum, Jenn!!
  Spinach always tastes great with mozzarella (I think)

• 21. carrien  |  October 26th, 2006 at 2:19 am

  Annie’s Naturals Rasberry dressing, add raisins or apples or peaches or berries, and some kind cheese and favorite nuts, and they will eat their spinach every time, without complaint. Okay, mine do.

• 22. TreeBob  |  October 28th, 2006 at 5:55 pm

  Mater, how could you sully the wonderful name of roast beef by naming it liver! I am appalled…

  s@bd, so darn true, Canadians are peacekeepers. Our army isn’t big enough to actually “make” peace, eh.

  coley *barf*

• 23. samantha jo campen  |  October 28th, 2006 at 6:48 pm

  Martha Stewart would be so proud.

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