The Preschooler Who Loved Vegetables

N (3.75) loves vegetables. She eats peas with almost every lunch and dinner. She eats frozen peas, still frozen. I haven't cooked peas for her in years. If we ever run out of peas she asks, "Why did you run out of peas Mommy?" She asks this with such feeling, as if running out of them was a planned conspiracy against her. If she doesn't have peas (or some vegetable) with her lunch or dinner she'll say, "I need something green." How many preschoolers do this????

She loved broccoli from an early age. I give that one to her cooked. Broccoli seems like it would be weird to eat frozen. She also loves raw zucchini, raw red pepper, frozen corn and frozen carrots (both still frozen). She likes frozen green beans (still frozen). The other night she was trying to convince K (18 months) to try raw zucchini pieces. She was telling K, "Look, they look like wheels." K didn't want to have anything to do with the zucchini. Then N saw the pieces where I had peeled some strips of skin off them and said, "These look like octagons." She proceeded to tell K about octagons and how they have 8 sides, and it was very cute. K still didn't want to eat them.

I love my little N girl!