Adulting Is Hard, but These Green Eggs Are Easy

Adulting is hard.

I’m not asking you to break out the tiny violins for me or anything, but it just is some days, especially when you seem to have no solution to the constant dilemma: “What food am I going to make?” Had I known this would be not just a daily question, but a multiple-times-a-day question, I would have gone into a more lucrative field so I could pay someone else to answer it for me.

When you add children into the mix, like my partner and I (quite questionably) have, it gets even harder because, invariably, what you decide to make is exactly what they decided that moment they don’t want.

You can go the route of having a “capsule meal plan,” which our family kind of has. It’s like a “capsule wardrobe” where you only wear a variation of the same round-robin clothes every week, only it’s with meals. We have staples that repeat every other week or so, but even within those staples I try to find some variety.

Enter: green eggs (ham optional).

I first thought of this tasty creation when I was bombarded with inquiries by my children as to what kind of special breakfast we’d be having for St. Patrick’s Day. That’s another thing they don’t tell you when you become a certified adult: not only will you have to make food every day, but you’ll have to come up with “special” foods for “special” days.

It’s exhausting.

I could have gone the same old “dye the pancakes green” route (which certainly works), but I came up with this recipe infusing the eggs with a big handful of spinach as a healthier option because, well, humans can’t live off of pancakes alone. (Trust me, I tried in college, and it led to acne and a maple syrup addiction I’m still trying to kick.)

They’re easy to prep and, though good scrambled eggs take some patience to make, are totally worth it. They taste fresh and bright, and feel free to add onions, tomatoes, some hot sauce, or red pepper flakes to jazz it up to your liking.

(Pro-tip: don’t make “green ham”... it is unappetizing to the eye.)

When I first made this delicious dish, I was a little concerned because these eggs, when blended with the spinach, are green. I mean *green*. Like Grinch green. Like fake Easter-grass green. Kids sometimes shy away from unusually hued foods like purple carrots and most beet varieties, but I found my concerns to be totally unfounded. 

My kids loved them. They asked for seconds. My wife loved them. I loved them. In fact, they’ll not only work for Dr. Seuss’s birthday, St. Patrick’s Day, or Easter, they’ll work for any day I want to infuse a little iron into the family meal plan.

I mean, if we’re going to have to dream up food a few times a day, every day, might as well make them vivid and look as fun as they taste, right?

These do.