WANTED:  Head Chef

Must be creative, flexible, able to multi-task, and above all else, extremely SNEAKY.  Oh, and willing to work all hours.

I think this description fits every lunch box packing parent on earth.  Making sure our kids eat a balanced diet can be exhausting, especially if you have a fussy eater in the house.  In our house that would be The Vegemite Kid, my vegemite, carbohydrate and dairy loving child.  It’s kind of a restrictive diet of choice though, and not to mention highly lacking in the vegetable and meat departments.  I have to mention that just before Christmas he did decide that he does like ham after all.  Just as well because there was one huge baked ham on our Christmas table.

Vegetables however are a never-ending nightmare with the exception of my potato and sweet potato mash.  So I have been on a quest to sneak as many veges into his diet wherever I can, hence the Chocolate Zucchini Muffins, Carrot and Zucchini Muffins, Home-made Sausage Rolls,and I have a few others up my sleeve too.  My latest invention is the Vegemite and Carrot Sandwich.  I just mix some finely grated carrot into the Vegemite before spreading it on his bread, and so far he has no idea it’s in there.  This weekend I am going to finely chop some broccoli into Vegemite and see if that works also.  Got to love that Vegemite is black.  It hides just about everything as long as it is chopped up nice and small. I know it’s super-sneaky, but you’ve gotta do what you’ve gotta do! (if you excuse the slang)