Spinach trick...

I have been trying to make our meals a little healthier here and there by using whole grains (helps to rotate your food storage, too!) and vegies in different places than expected.

I like to make homemade pizza.

I use half whole-wheat flour in the dough.

But Taylor (and sometimes Madi) are picky about what goes on top of the dough. For a while, all they wanted on their pizza was cheese and pepperoni

(sound familiar?).

They did let me add pineapple.

.

Kinda cute, huh?

( I like to buy the 4-packs of individual serving size pineapple tidbits--one is just enough for a pizza!)

However, recently I tried adding fresh, chopped spinach right after I put on the sauce--and I think it is a keeper. I was inspired by my friend Sariah's blog about her smoothies (I'll have to admit, I tried putting spinach into some of our fruit smoothies, and she is right--you can't taste the spinach in it--but you have to close your eyes to drink it--unless you're alright with pea-green fruit smoothies!).

So, I have been putting spinach

in places I wouldn't have thought to before.

.The first time I tried it out on pizza, the girls looked at their dinner and exclaimed,
"What did you do

to our pizza!?"
But since they had tasted the pea-green smoothies when we tried that experiment and were okay with them, they gave the pizza a shot! Now I add spinach every time I make it (if I have spinach in my crisper). It really makes for a pretty pizza, with the red sauce, bright colored spinach, pineapple and turkey pepperoni--a cheesy, beautiful kid-friendly creation (at least a friend of my kids!) .

(do you think I could fit any more spinach

into this blog?)