Green Beans are good for you, M+Ms are good for me

Sep 14th, 2009

I realize that the following admission might call into question my rightful ownership of the domain Greener Biener (it IS pronounced bean-er,) as indeed it is true that no green beans were consumed by me in the making of this site.  Green M+Ms? For sure.  Green Beans? No thank you.

I was not a kid who [...]

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Take my cauliflower, please

Aug 30th, 2008

Really. Please, take it. It is so totally icky.
I have come a long way from my days of subsiding on nothing more than vanilla yogurt (my childhood motto: have Dannon will travel) and my ironclad stubborn refusal to try anything new. Part of the idea behind joining a CSA (don’t remember what this [...]

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Honey I tricked the kids

Jul 19th, 2008

Picky eaters are the worst. I should know, I used to be one.
As a kid I hated all things edible, except one. Back in the day I would have traded my baby brother for a bowl of frozen strawberries (ok, I would have traded him for a black eye, but that’s a different [...]

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Zebra Fries

Jul 19th, 2008

These beautiful fries are made from beets (we used Chioggia beets because they came in our CSA packet, but we’ve been known to disguise any root veggie as a “pretty fry”)

Slice beets into shoestring fry shapes.
Toss with a little oil (we use canola) and some [...]

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Raspberry Parfaits

Jul 14th, 2008

This is a trick, but it’s one my kids fall for and adore and best of all devour, so what’s the harm? I’ll even make them in a wine glass, which makes them feel grown-up and seems to encourage even more eating.
Ingredients:

Yogurt–Plain Greek yogurt (Faje) is my kids favorite, [...]

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