Small Feat

We are starting to reevaluate some of our menu choices since Lily's doctor's visit. We need to cut down on the fish sticks and nuggets and go with some healthier foods. The main problem with this is that nuggets and fish sticks are easy to prepare and the kids will eat them.

Last night we had a dish that is adapted from something we got out of Real Simple magazine. Basically, you carmelize some onions with garlic in olive oil, add some sausage of your choice (it calls for italian, but I used chicken sausage yesterday), add cooked pasta (it calls for gnocchi, but we used whole-wheat penne), fresh spinach, and grated parmesan. It's easy and with our modifications it is fairly healthy.

The problem is that Lily hates pasta. There is something about the texture that she just can't handle. Last night I told her that she had to eat 2 noodles. Normally she pitches a huge fit about this, but last night she just did it by eating some of the sausage with it. We've been trying to get her to do that for a while, but something seemed to click yesterday and she did it without fighting or gagging. Hopefully this means she is on the road to actually eating pasta, but I'm counting on nothing.