Leprechaun Leaves

Eric and I have been drinking green smoothies for breakfast for a few weeks now. The main ingredient is spinach leaves, which Colin calls leprechaun leaves. After a couple of mornings of Eric and I having the smoothies, Colin told me that he had his own recipe that he wanted to try with the leprachaun leaves. Before I continue, I need to say that Colin is our little anti-nutrient child. It's like he can smell a nutrient a mile away and doesn't want to have anything to do with it. He wanted to try orange juice and spinach, which was amazing that he even suggested it, seeing as spinach is packed full of goodness, so we gave it a whirl. And he liked it (it's actually kind of amazing how little you can taste the spinach)! He got a little green spinach mustache, he actually enjoyed nutrients, and has asked for it whenever he catches me making my smoothie. So it wasn't too surprising this morning when he asked me to make "his recipe" when I was making my smoothie. But it did surprise me when he said he had a new ingredient to add to his--brace yourself--get ready for it----Cheese! Yuck! But he was dead set on it. It took some discussion, but I got him to go for not blending it in this time, but maybe just dipping it to see if he liked it. I blended his drink, and he got a couple different cheeses to dip, and guess what--he liked it!! He raved about how great it was, and then he brought on the nasty, nasty. He decided he was gonna break the cheese up and put it in the drink, but since the chunks wouldn't come through his straw, he microwaved it. When it was done he stirred it up, and drank it down, talking up his new creation the whole time. In many ways it was exciting to sit back and watch his little creative juices flow on the whole thing, but mostly just nasty. Those delicious leprechaun leaves.