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Last week I had a few days of not feeling so well.  My household had three different aliments going at once last week, but happily all on the mend.  Between, bland foods, soft foods, and not wanting any food for all all, I began to think about the food we eat on a daily basis. There are areas for major improvement and areas we are doing OK in.   Mothers always say to eat your vegetables.  My least favorite are Green Beans. My parents have a garden at their house, I was always the Green Bean picker. We ate fresh vegetable most of the year from the garden. Now that my husband has taken a liking to growing his own "jersey" tomatoes and asparagus we enjoy the fresh vegetables as well.    When my children were at the state of  "baby food" I was not fond of buying all those little jars of food for them.  I usually "smashed" whatever  cooked vegetable we were having for dinner and gave it to the girls that way to eat.  To this da...