Veggies!

Butternut Squash, courtesy Kristi Kosina

Eat a veggie,
Said Aunt Reggie.
You dodge them if you're lucky,
Because they are yucky.
It isn't too bad, Mom said.
Eat some sweet potato bread.
Eat some broccoli with your chicken.
You'll eat veggies scream'n and kick'n.
Eat a carrot,
Squawks a parrot.
Eat some spinach
In your sandwich.
Eat a tomato and a zucchini.
Add onions to your hotdog weiny.
Even if your parents are stealthy,
Veggies are healthy!

Osmosis

Take a half pickle and stick it in a glass.
Fill it with water that is pure.
The pickle fills with more water mass.
It's bigger and juicier for sure.
Now make a glass of water and salt,
And add the other half pickle.
The veggie sags and it's all my fault.
Science makes my laugh box tickle.

Goodnight, Prom People!

It is a magically colorful and bright night.
We dress up. Mom's dress is a pretty sight.
We drive to the Prom to dance and eat.
There are so many glorious people to meet.
Of course, the party truly begins when I arrive.
We enter the pillars and hear a pianist play live.
The women swoon at the sight of me.
I wave back and giggle at the lovely ladies, teehee!
I walk and talk while lights glitter around.
I prance and dance at the hip-hop pop surround sound.
The oatmeal cookies and strawberry shortcake
Are yummy, and so is the grape slushy I take.
I dance and dance and dance.
I glance at the romance as we all dance in this ballroom expanse.
To my left and right, pictures flash
It is now the time that I shall dash.
I yawn and rub my tired eyes.
When we have fun, time flies.
Make good decisions and don't stay out too late tonight.
Prom people, goodnight!

Planet Sucrose

The atmosphere smells of apple pie.
Soda vulcanoes mix with momentos rock and shoot sky high.
Gingerbread homes are just out of harms way.
Chocolate covered snails stare at the Milky Way.
Gummy bears enjoy sour gold fish at night.
Carbonated Blue Ocean Dew is a beautiful sight.
Brownies are the planet's dirt.
Hot cocoa springs have geysers that squirt.
It rains lemonade.
The alligators are medically inclined, swimmimg with a sense of gator-aid.
Animal hearts are red hot.
Pixie sticks of rainbow dust are shot.
Fireworks consist of rocks that pop.
Fields of fondant are filled with white chocolate bunnies that hop.
Follow the candy corn road
And kiss a gum drop covered toad.
Do not stare at the everlasting gobstopper star.
This is the place where sweet things are.

Food Friday: Oranges

Oranges are fruity and sweet
That one can drink or eat.
They have delicious pulp.
It's good enough to sip every last gulp.
They grow on trees
And fall in the breeze.
Oranges are orange and round.
I like having them around.
They even go well with meat.
That sure is sweet.

Food Friday: Mango

Mango is sweet.

It has orange fruit meat.
Its tropical flavor is kind
And it has a tiny yellow-green rind.
It goes well with chicken and fish
Or really any meat dish.
It is good in salsa and hot sauce.
Even in a smoothie, it can be a flavor boss.
Work it into icecream with a frozen stone.
It's even a great snack alone.

Dude, I chewed mood food.

I read to my redhead instead in his bed.
We took charge of the large margerine barge with Marge.
For kicks, we fix six mixes as the clock ticks.
Late, we wait to open the gate at eight.
It fell as we tell about the smell of the spell we won't quell.
Teeny green trees between
The stars are far from my car.
So high in the sky is why we love pie.

Math Monday: A pizza pi

Connect a round line.
Three-point-one-four-one-five-nine.
On pie we shall dine.

Food Friday: Lemons

Lemons are a fruit.
They are small and cute.
They are the shape of a football.
The lemon tree is very tall.
Lemons are yellow.
The flavor is mellow.
It can also be sour.
Our tree drops one an hour.
Buy them in a super mart.
Bake them in a tart.
They can also be made
Into sweet lemonade,
Squeeze on fish,
Or a chicken dish.
Lemons add flavor
To refresh and savor.

Food Friday: Kiwifruit

The kiwi is fuzzy and brown on the outside.
It's green and chewy on the inside.
The fruit is sweet.
The skin you don't eat.
Inside, there are tiny black seeds.
There are many animals it feeds.
Humans like to mix it with strawberry.
This is a soothing fruit, even though it's hairy.
Kiwis you should pack,
For a delicious snack.

Food Friday: Jalapeño

Jalapeño is said, Ha-La-Pain-Yo.
The pepper is green.
It's fairly spicy, you know.
The hotness level, to many, is mean.
I like to eat them stuffed with cheese.
They go well in salsa and chicken.
I'll take them as fried chips, please!
They're hot, so my pulse tends to quicken.
Before these peppers go bad,
They turn a bright red. It's rad!

Lovely Reds and Blues

Strawberries are red.
Blueberries are blue.
When all is done and said,
Son, I love you too!

I Am A Cheeseburger

I am a cheeseburger
With seven extra pickles.
Two patties make me bigger.
Mushrooms give me tickles.
Tomatoes pull double duty
As sauce and slices.
I am now a fruity cutie.
Add some pepper spices.
Introduce lettuce and onions.
Give me clothing of wheat bread.
Sesame seeds are my minions.
Ditch the mustard-mayo spread.
I wouldn't be a cheeseburger
Without cheddar cheese.
If I'm taken, catch the burgler.
BFF, hold me close, please.
Now top with bacon.
Let's get shaken.

Perfect Pies

It's the beginning of January.
Pies with white chocolate and four berry,
     Smell magical in the air.
     I jealously pout and stare.
Others will eat these pies and be merry.

Food Friday: Ice Cream Ids

Yes please, I think I will have some ice cream.
With the humidity and the heat, it's hotter than it may seem.
Spoonfuls of creamy coldness
Is wintry boldness.
Perhaps a waffle cone may do.
My teeth chatter when I chew.
White chocolate raspberry swirl
For a day that has been a whirl.
The treat makes everything bittersweet,
As I sit here eating in my seat;
Thinking about today's events.
The whole world laments
The needless killing of kids.
Finding my lid, I think there are too many unnoticed damaged ids.

Food Friday: Gingerbread Men

Little Sam gathers ingredients for the batter.
He follows the recipe to the letter,
Making sure the clothes do not tatter;
And gleaming eyes with a curvy smile that is better.
For the last batch didn't taste quite right.
He tosses them into the oven that is very hot.
He watches his masterpieces by turning on the oven light.
Bubbling goo and fire is caught.
Sam swings the door open to rescue his men.
Despite being singed, they are perfect.
He thinks about what could have been,
But his new duty is to protect.
He shows off his skills,
Promising he was the sole cook.
Ooing and awwing at the frills,
Sam's friends take a look.
During class, a student takes a bite.
Sam doesn't even see.
Gingerbread men's joy turn to fright,
As the poor soldier has lost his leg below the knee.
Fright turns to anger as their eyes turn red hot quick.
They go after the students who will eat them next.
They run to their shins and give a swift kick.
Clearly they are vexed.
Sam is unnerved that events have turned.
His perfect batch is staging a coup.
Perhaps they should have never been burned.
But what else was he supposed to do?
"Everyone, save yourselves and eat!"
Even though this meant that his perfect batch is destroyed.
Sadness...Sam didn't know his men had a kick, but they were sweet.
Annoyed, he must now make more to fill his creative and tasty void.






Image Credit: PicsArt clip art, adjusted and filtered by Kristi Kosina.

Food Friday: Fungus Among Us

Fungus can be a tasty treat.
They add flavor that can't be beat.
Fungus yeast is used in leavened bread.
There is fungi in a blue cheese spread.
It is in the soy sauce that people consume.
The most popular fungus is the mushroom.
Yet, fungi can be an acquired taste.
Do your homework before trying poisonous ones in haste.
Fungi may not look nice, but try it; you should.
It makes many foods taste good.

Food Friday: Delicious Donuts

When I walk into HEB
The smell of fresh donuts hits me.
The sweet, glorious smell of win;
Desiring to pluck dozens to put in my shopping bin.
Lemon-filled and coconut;
Blueberry-filled and almond nut;
Cinnamon powder and sour cream
The rainbow colors make me beam.
Sprinkles and ones of cake;
Cherry-filled, all day they bake.
Bear claws and sugar glazed;
At the selection, I am amazed.
At last, I may soon be a diabetic.
For sugar cravings, I have to learn to be apathetic.

Food Friday: Crazy Cereal

Cereals are a grain.
I eat it for breakfast to relieve hunger pain.
Pour some in a bowl.
Pour in some milk; soy, fat free, two percent, or whole.
Use a spoon as a boat and say ahoy!
Take a bite and enjoy!

Food Friday: Bananas

Bananas are a sweet, soft fruit.
For them, herbivores and omnivores go in pursuit.
It is crescent shaped of the color yellow.
The flavor is magnificently mellow.
To open the banana for a quick meal,
Carefully pull down each side of the peel.
Bananas go well with ice cream.
Some think a strawberry-banana smoothie is supreme.
Dry some banana chips
When going on long trips.
When bananas turn brown, make banana bread.

Throw the peel in the trash. On the floor, it should not be shed.