Lettuce and Chocolate Wrap

“Mom, why do I need to eat the salad before the chocolate?”

“The dessert comes after the meal, honey.”

“So, if I eat this lettuce I can eat a piece of chocolate afterwards?” Claire asked holding a big green leaf over her plate.

“If you eat a plateful of lettuce, and tomatoes, and grilled chicken, we’ll enjoy a nice bonbon later. How about that?”

“How about this?” She asked as she wrapped a chocolate square with the lettuce, and before I could say anything gobbled it all up.

My chin dropped and I was speechless for just a second, but that was enough for her to get another one of those monstrosities into her mouth.

“Ok… How does that taste?”

“Very good actually. You should totally try it,” she said as she neatly wrapped another one and offered it to me, “Mom, remember your own rule, we can’t say we don’t like something without trying.”

And that’s how I learned that lettuce with chocolate is downright disgusting.