Small Successes

Dinner time in our household is always interesting. Especially the interplay between Trip's diet of red meat, fried anything, and potatoes compared to my attempts to introduce healthier foods into the equation. Of course, then there are the days when I too could care less about green etc., but simply want something tasty and done soon! Take this to say I was very happy when I served one of the Rice-a-Roni spiced rice mixes recently and heard Trip say, "mmm, this is good, what's in this?" Trust me, Trip actually saying "mmm" spontaneously, as opposed to "it's okay" at my own prompting seems like quite a feat. And as much as I like white rice, it gets tiring at times. Go figure, Rice-A-Roni was on sale this week, and I'm hoping to expand beyond our Garlic Chicken repetoire!