Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Pastaforfools

In health stealth mode, I've been trying to introduce healthier foods in my children's diet undetected.

I've met with a certain amount of success. Whole grain cereals were an easy substitution; so was white-wheat bread. But last night I tried to slip in Barilla's "Pasta Plus," a new, nutritionally fortified pasta.

Ewww.

It was so nasty, I couldn't even choke it down. It's taste, texture and color was completely non-pasta-ish. It's tough to screw up noodles, but somehow, Barilla did.

So, I will leave you with a Chinese quote, in honor of the inventors of the dish:

You don't meet a girl like that every dynasty.--Mulan.

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