A Healthy Sandwich for the Little Ones and Not So Little Ones

I'm as surprised as anyone that he will now eat these sandwiches, and the one below is our latest update.   The key, I think, is making it attractive and tasty.


Ingredients:

• Whole grain or your other favorite bread or wrap
• Lettuce - we started with iceburg for its mild flavor, then moved on to romaine or fresh spinach
• Cabbage - either the sweet, white kind or the red/purple one, both went over well
• Tomatoes - fresh, sliced
• Spread - we started with mustard but have now combined avocado, which he hates, with mustard and seasonings.  He never noticed the avocado, didn't mind when I told him, so I've gradually increased the avocado to mustard ratio. 

This is a shot of our first attempt; it has a little skim mozzarella cheese, finely shredded version because it looks like more than it is and goes further, as a bit of an enticement to try the sandwich.   None of our later attempts included it and he never noticed it missing.  Sneaky mom, 1 point. 

 

A funny note about the picture.   I only made a half sandwich because I didn't want to waste the bread if he didn't like it.   He brought back the plate and asked for the other half, then asked me to write down the ingredients for it, post them on the fridge, so that he could make it whenever he wanted.  A roaring success.