Being more adventurous with food - coloured poo!

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Hi, as a family, we are moving away from "empty carbs" towards carbs with more nutrition. We are doing this gradually so as not to cause the shits tummy upsets. To accompany our roast lamb today, we had a very few roast potatoes (bad carbs) along with roast sweet potatoes, roast butternut, roast celeriac and roast beetroot (good carbs). I gave everyone a piece of everything and asked that they try them. I hoped they would like them, but if there was real hatred, that was OK. The butternut and the sweet potato went down a treat. Only DH and self liked the celeriac, but the revelation was the beetroot! They all looked at it as if it was roadkill, until I told them that eating fresh beetroot (as opposed to the pickled stuff) makes your wee go pink and your poos go purple tomorrow morning. OMG - they couldn't eat enough of the stuff. I should have known that lurid wee and poo would be a winner . Does anyone else know of any (healthy) foods that produce coloured excreta?

Don't know about any other colours but they might be interested in the funny smelling wee you get from asparagas! Think it's in season later in the year though.

LOL at your thread title - sounds like you are feeding it to the

Spinach produces some lovely green specimens. Make a spinach sauce by sauteing some frozen (or a bag of fresh) in butter, a good dollop of cream cheese, slosh of milk, boil it up, and blend it. Chuck in a handful of grated cheese. Great over fish or pasta. Personally I think its gross and tastes like mud, but its one thing which all four of my children would eat. You get some lovely green poos afterwards.

Blueberries, very nutritious, very purple poos.

feeding it to theM, not feeding it to the fluffy easter bunny smiley

Ohforfoxsake - brilliant - having started the multicoloured poo thing, my DCs love it, so any suggestions gratefully received. We are growing spinach and also blueberries although they are not cropping yet. We will just have to go with the beetroot for now and look forward to the other stuff!
pinkspottywellies - ooh yes - asparagus pee! We have some of that growing as well so that may be a goer, although I may have to defend my right to eat all of it because it is my absolutely favourite vegetable ever. It is starting to show through now, so will have that smelly wee to look forward to.