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[quote=Anonymous]black beans are a protein, not a vegetable, although they do offer significant fiber
corn is a starch, not a vegetable
mango is a fruit, not a vegetable

avocado is a fruit, not a vegetable, but it’s not a common fruit, so it might slide. 
tomatoes and cucumbers are fruits, but commonly thought of as vegetables, so I’d probably count them. 
red peppers are technically a fruit, but I’d count them as a vegetable (if they ate a significant serving)

small quantities of X (visible or not), I might consider X a vegetable, but it would be a bonus, not a serving. Just as I wouldn’t count a cherry on a banana split a serving of fruit, or a slice of pickle in a hamburger a serving, they’d have to eat a lot of the bigger dish to accumulate a serving of vegetables from small bits mixed in.

raw spinach as a salad base and purple cabbage slaw I would consider vegetables.  The strawberry smoothie with spinach, I’d give you credit for, but ideally,  I’d want some other vegetables too.

Some of these are less common, so even if they are fruits, I might give you credit for getting my kid to try something new.

I’d basically be grateful to have you looking after my kids for the weekend, and wouldn’t care too much what they ate. As long as I get them back alive, I wouldn’t care, even if you stuffed them with junk (which is not your menu - I think your menu sounds great, it’s just low on vegetables). If they got sick or cranky, you’d be dealing with it and they’d learn a lesson. Once I got them back, I could stuff them with as many vegetables as I wanted.  Even if they had no produce at all (which is clearly not the case), they wouldn’t develop scurvy in a weekend. [/quote]

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