My daughter's a good vegetable eater, but we all get in ruts. My usual vegetable at dinner is a salad - a handful of lettuce from the bag, some grape tomatoes, maybe a few carrots or cucumbers or pepper if I'm lucky. It's easy, fresh and provides a pretty good variety of different kinds of veggies.

It works for us until we get completely tired of it and we're all picking at our salads on the fifth straight day. And then my husband tried something great the other day that I thought I'd share: the salad taco.

OK. So It's not revolutionary. We've all seen the lettuce wraps at name-your-favorite-chain-restaurant. But why not try it at home.

Here's what we did. 

Take a giant leaf of Romaine lettuce. Fill up the inside with your favorite salad fillings - tomatoes, cucumbers, etc. Or be creative. I added cut up apples, dried cranberries and a few walnuts on Monday. Blue cheese and pears would be great. So would bacon and egg or avocado and a little salsa. Fold it up and eat it like a taco.

The novelty was enough for my three-year-old to really get into it. She ate the entire leaf, including the dark green, healthiest part of the leaf, which she normally skips in a regular salad. She loved the fact she could use her hands. I loved the fact her plate was empty.

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