Let's do lunch.

Actually, let's do vegetables at lunch. I started thinking that maybe Chicken's veggie tossing at dinner has more to do with dinner than veggies. Her dad is home, the dogs are hovering and she's tired. Any of those things could mess with her mood to eat.

It's snowing here AGAIN and Chicken decided to hibernate this morning. She took a seriously long nap so I took the opportunity to make some soup. Chicken and I have enjoyed this canned organic soup but it's pricey so I tried to make something similar. I use vegetable stock, green lentils, sweet potatoes, carrots and butternut squash. Chicken and I had soup (hers sans broth), cucumber, and leftover roasted zucchini for lunch. She played with it all, but hardly tossed anything. She wanted more cucumber and zucchini and ate as much of the soup as she could get to her mouth. (Since I couldn't offer big pieces of vegetables in the soup, I cut everything really small and lentils are tiny, so it wasn't super easy to manage.)

Since things were going so well, I grabbed a little stalk of raw

broccoli from the fridge and Chicken tasted it, which really surprised me. She gnawed at the stem end and took three bites of the little leaves. She didn't love it, but at least it got a chance before being tossed!

This presents me with a challenge. Usually lunch is the meal that I just toss together and it's the one that we miss sometimes if we're out and about. However, it seems like it's my best chance to get some veggies into this Chicken. I guess I'll have to dedicate some more time to prepping vegetables so that they're easy to grab from the fridge in a pinch.