No More Veggies

          For lunch my mommy gave me a hamburger, a glass of milk and carrots. So I ate the hamburger and sneaked my dog Charley Chompers the carrots. Mommy found out and told me to eat my carrots or no more TV for a whole entire week. I said to mommy “Fine, I eat carrots but no more veggies”. So I slowly put the carrots in my mouth and ran to the potty and spit them back out.


        That same day mommy put dinner on the table. We had pot roast, rolls and broccoli. When I took my plate from mommy, I saw there were veggies on my plate. I screamed to mommy “I thought told you, no more veggies!” She crossed her arms and pointed to the table. I stumped to the table and slammed my plate on the table. She told me to eat the veggies or go to bed without desert. I told mommy “fine, but no more veggies!” I ate the veggies and when she wasn’t looking I spit back out onto my napkin.


      The next day, for lunch my mommy served me peanut butter jelly sandwiches with carrots and celery. I ate my sandwich but threw the carrots and celery away. When I asked for desert mommy asked me if I ate my veggies. I replied back “I hate veggies, no more veggies”.

Mommy sat me down and said, “Every superhero needs their veggies. Popeye needs his spinach to be strong; Superman eats his carrots so he can keep x-ray vision. You need your veggies so you can have Popeye’s muscles and Superman’s vision.” Even though I can’t stand veggies mommy explained to me why I should try the veggies.

       At every meal now I keep telling myself that even if I hate veggies I want to be like Popeye and Superman so I have to try my veggies. Maybe when I get older I will have super human strength and x-ray vision. Every day after I tried the veggies I would go to mirror and see if I got super human strength or x-ray vision like all my favorite superheroes.

       One night at dinner instead of just carrots or potatoes, Mommy got creative and chopped a bunch of veggies together and put them in a bowl. She calls it a salad and to top it off Mommy said I could put something on it so it would be tasty. Guess what? I liked it, it was very tasty so now on Mommy would find a way for me to like my veggies. So for now on instead of me saying “No More Veggies” I now say “More Veggies Please”.

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