Mangos

Recently I found out that mangos are surprisingly healthy for you. They’re full of vitamins, minerals, anti-oxidants; fiber…this list seems to go on and on. Unfortunately, I don’t honestly like the taste of a mango. My first taste of mango was when my son was about eight or nine months old. He had one of them squeeze-y pouches of baby food – mango something. And he tasted it and started throwing a huge fit. Of course, he was hungry and getting crankier and crankier by the second. He absolutely refused to eat the pouch of food, with or without the attachable spoons. So I tasted it, and no wonder he didn’t want to eat it, it was nasty. I haven’t had another mango since. Until yesterday that is. We found some frozen mango chunks in the freezer and decided we were going to make a mango smoothie out of them.

After we added a lot of stuff to it, the smoothie didn’t taste too bad. But if you decide to add mango and peach together, make sure you add WAY more peach to the amount of mango. Mango is apparently a really strong flavor.

But one thing is for sure, I’m going to continue eating mangos even if I don’t like them. Thomas thankfully now will eat them. He loved the smoothie. I will have to just play around with the ingredients until I find a way I like to eat the mango.