ok... so today has been an eventful day:
i tried a carrot.
true story.
but let's start from the beginning...
so yesterday i was thinking. thinking about how i should eat healthier and stop eating nachos for lunch almost everyday. so i decided that i would try veggies with hummus. supposedly it's delicious, so maybe it would help. i got my cousin's recipe for hummus and she said her family loves it with carrots. perfect, right? i could get some carrots and be a veggie lover in no time, or so i thought.
last night when i was doing my workout, jeremy ran to the store for groceries. i handed him the list of the somewhat hard to find items for hummus and i told him to get some carrots, too. "carrots?" he asked. "yes, i need carrots." "uhhh, what kind of carrots?" "i don't know... baby carrots? just carrots." "oooook." jeremy, knowing i DON'T eat vegetables, of ANY kind, was a little confused, but he arrived back home with a big bag of baby carrots anyways and then i filled him in on my plan.
{fast forward to today's lunch}
i made the
black bean hummus and jeremy got the carrots out and rinsed them off-
is that what you do with carrots? he asked how many i wanted as he was piling them onto the plate, "uh, four." "four?! that's all?" "yep." so he took some off of the plate and handed it to me. i sat down staring at the bowl of hummus and plate of carrots thinking, can i really do this? i had jeremy try a bite of the carrot before i tried it- i didn't want to get a bad one on my first try. he assured me it tasted like all the other carrots and to just eat it. i dipped it into the hummus and took a bite. yes, sir. i DID it. i tried the carrot!
and shortly after... i gagged. like a legit, non-voluntary gag. and then i spit it out in the sink
(too much info? probably- sorry, but i'm attempting to eat veggies, and you get to hear ALL about it) and jeremy just laughed at me. he almost fell to the floor laughing and and he kept saying, "i have never seen somebody gag from eating a carrot." well, i'm
your wife, buddy.
i thought that maybe i didn't like the hummus. so i got out the chips and found that the hummus was NOT the culprit, it was
way good. i found solace in my chips and hummus for a while, until jeremy told me to try the carrots again. i picked one up, examining it, and told him i was scared. "it's just a carrot. eat it." so i took a brave bite. "just keep chewing," he encouraged me, followed by, "your body is probably freaking out right now,"
(because i NEVER eat carrots) haha, funny jeremy. so i chewed and chewed, made a couple funny faces and then got it down. success! it didn't taste good, but i ate a bite of a carrot. i can
learn to like carrots, right?
i thought so, until i took another bite. gagged!! again, while jeremy laughed and laughed. i don't know why it is SO hilarious. all this time jeremy just kept popping the carrots in his mouth-
how does he do that?! "you
like carrots?" i asked. he responded, "yeah, but my wife doesn't, so i am deprived." haha... oops! well, now we have a whole bag to eat.
carrot recap
(these are the actual carrots in my fridge)1st attempt:
FAIL2nd attempt:
SUCCESS3rd attempt:
FAILjeremy insists that i focus on the 2nd attempt. he's nice to believe that i can actually learn to like vegetables. i really want to do this,
at least i think i do. after i conquer carrots- assuming it's possible- i will move onto another vegetable, and then another, and another, until i like a plethora of veggies,
whereas now i only like one- green beans. so now i need your help: carrots- the current veggie project.
how do you like to eat them? maybe the better questions is, how do you get your kids to eat them? i am in desperate need of your secrets... obviously.