30 Different Plants Per Week

The latest (?) food trend that's permeated through the fog: 30 Plant Points for Good gut health!  

Let's see how close I got in the past few days:  

1. Apple
2. Orange
3. Tomatoes
4. Oats
5. Almonds
6. Onions
7. Soy 
8. Brown rice
9. Quinoa
10. Peanuts
11. Olives 
12. Bok choy sum 
13. a) Ginger; b) Green Tea; c) Green onion; d) Garlic
14. Flax seed
15. Small red beans 
16. Lettuce 
17. Carrots
18. Shiitake mushrooms 
19. Blueberries
20. Corn
21. Grapes
22. Whole wheat (pasta)
23. Swiss Chard
24. Green Cabbage 
25. a) Cilantro; b) Black pepper; 
26. Celery 
27. Savoy Cabbage  
28. Dried apricots  

Ah, different colours count!  But herbs and spices are only worth a quarter each...

At least 5 of these were from left over foods kids did not eat -- the hidden benefit in being the "garbage disposal".  

Conclusion: Packaged chopped salads did a lot of heavy lifting.  And maybe we should add a seed mix topping to everything.  

The List(s)

To get some buy-in, I'm piggy-backing on one of James's current favourite stories: The List* (from Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel).   We've made to-do lists after breakfast for the past week.  And, we'd sometimes check, sometimes cross off (sometimes both) the completed tasks as I nudge/remind/push him through them.  It sort of works?

Yesterday, while mapping out our day writing up the list, he said, "James is Mama's list."

To him: "I think you mean "James and Mama's list"". 

To myself: "Yeah, pretty much." Sigh.

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* A copy of the story can be read here.

The story read aloud: