I have been trying new foods lately, namely focusing on crackers and chips that are supposed to be healthier. In the process, I found From the Ground Up, a company that makes such things utilizing cauliflower as the base rather than flour. Now, I have been choosing to eat a variety of pizza made with a cauliflower crust for some years now, so I thought I’d try them.
There is also several things I knew before I did.
One, as a plant-based food the likelihood of my daughter being able to have them was slim to none. Nuts and soy are plants after all, and even if they weren’t in them, cross-contamination is also a thing. (Though, after inspecting the label, it would seem this company is more allergy friendly than most.)
Two, my husband would eat them no matter what. Whenever I find a food, especially an expensive one, that is friendly to my dietary restrictions he will also want to consume it. It’s annoying but I don’t complain much because it comes in handy when I find out that the new food is unpalatable to me. He’ll still eat it.
Three, my son will not even attempt to try them from the moment I tell him that they are made from vegetables. Although he has had a piece or two of my cauliflower-based pizza and he knows that’s what its made of. To be fair, he was desperate for food and my already cooked pizza was handy. That and he doesn’t find the taste to be that off-putting.
Knowing he will eat my pizza on occasion and wanting to get him to eat more vegetables because a diet of carbohydrates and protein isn’t healthy, I have offered him a taste of these new snacks. Knowing how he feels about vegetables, I don’t mention the cauliflower until after he has tasted them. He usually doesn’t like them anyway.
Now, the other day I got a new flavor of cauliflower crackers. These happen to look very similar to Cheez It’s. When he saw what they looked like he wanted some. I gave him one to try and to my surprise he liked it. Even more surprising, he took a whole box to his room even after I explained what they were made of.
As he grabbed the box he said, “I can have some, right?”
I, rather astonished, told him I wasn’t going to prevent him from eating vegetables.
Five minutes later he brought the box back.
“What happened? Do you not like them after all?”
He said something about the aftertaste and handed it back to me.
That would have been the end of the subject, but my husband saw the crackers and wanted some while he took off to someplace he needed to go. I was reluctant to let him have the bag I had out and already opened, and I asked him how much he needed.
He said he’d eat about half of what was there. I would have preferred giving him some in another bag but reluctantly let him have them as he was in a hurry to leave. He returned a few hours later with the bag barely touched with the same complaint.
So, I have apparently found a snack food that I do not have to hide from my husband. And yes, we have to hide food from him because he will eat it all, even when it’s the really expensive allergy-free stuff our daughter gets. (We’ve had to chew him out more than once about getting into her food, but now we have him trained to stay out of her cupboard.)
Yes, the taste is very different than Cheez It’s, but I like it. So, I will probably buy more since I don’t have to hide them.
Just to be clear. Yes, I hide food from my husband. His eating foods I can’t have or don’t like is one thing. But consuming the last of the snacks I love and an enjoy is another one altogether. So yes, I have been hiding food from him.
Though so far I have only been able to successfully hide one snack. But it is the most important snack to hide. Chocolate. Namely dark chocolate. My latest find is 70% cocoa Dove dark chocolate squares. Seriously delicious.
The 70% or higher cocoa is healthy, in moderation. The size of each piece is perfect too. Not too small, but also not so large that it is a sugar laden no-no. And just one is the melt in your mouth perfection that can completely satisfy your craving all on it’s own. It takes effort to limit myself to just two a day, they are that good.
Smile. Make the day a brighter day.
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