Eat Your Vegetables

I just discovered the blog entitled The Great Big Vegetable Challenge, all about a mother's noble endeavor to convince her 7-year old veggie-phobic son Freddie to eat his leafy greens. Her challenge to other bloggers? To create a face made of vegetables. Check here for the enchanting slide show of veggie faces created by people around the world -- London, Suffolk, New York, Missouri, D.C., California, Chicago, Scotland... I can't exactly put my finger on why, but the thought of so many people stopping to make silly vegetable art, it renews my faith in humanity.

And it added a whole new dimension to my Sunday morning trip to the market. I wandered the produce aisles intently, not in search of the freshest fruits and vegetables like usual, oh no. I circled around and around and around looking for the best noggin-shaped vegetable I could find. When the produce guy noticed me circling like a shark and he asked me if there was anything he could help me with, I almost told him, but then decided, no, he might not understand.

I really wanted one of those big Alaska Grown gourds or squashes we grow in abundance here but I couldn't find a single one so I settled on a head of locally grown red cabbage and here he is...

Carrots ends for eyes, a zucchini smile, sprouts for hair and a nose made of a pod of peas from my neighbor's garden.

Can't decide which photo I like better. I think this one shows his nose better:

Thanks Charlotte and Freddie for providing me with a bit of unexpected frivolity this sunny Sunday morning!

Comments

[Great Big Veg Challenge]

We love it.
Thank you so much
See it on display now.
Charlotte and |Freddie

[Pille]

That's sooo cute - I love the hair, and the use of carrots :)