The Logbook Pt. 2

Eating Healthy

Even on the Octopod, it's way harder than it sounds and looks. Everyone on the Octopod is vegetarian, but eating healthy is still pretty hard.

Fish biscuits and kelp cakes are healthier than normal cakes and biscuits, but it's probably not a good idea to only live on them, however tasty they are. 

It's easier to get the kids to eat healthy than to get Kwazii to eat healthy. Peso and the Captain have to run circles around the Octopod, and the Captain has to carry a screeching, yowling Kwazii back to the kitchen to get him to eat one bite of a vegetable. The kids will give any food a try, and if you put a vegetable in front of them, they'll eat it without making a face as long as it's not brussel sprouts. 

It's the easiest to get the baby Vegimals to eat healthy. All you have to do is cut the food into a fun shape and they'll eat it all up. Shellington even takes requests; he'll ask his baby what shape they want their tofu or whatever Shellington's trying to feed them in, and he'll cut it into that shape while bouncing his little one in his lap and letting them watch him make it.

This is Shellington, so it's not the most clean, realistic shape in the world, but the babies love it all the same cos "Daddy Shellydo" made it, and they eat it cos they love him.

Nonrelated: the Vegimals have and use sippy cups, plus Inkling has asked Shellington to use a sippy cup to drink tea with him occasionally so Shellington wouldn't spill any tea on the furniture or break any teacups (because Shellington's TOTALLY not that clumsy).

Peso has tried to get everyone to try to eat healthy for one week before. Kwazii ended up stuffing his face with candy on the very first day when he thought Peso went to bed. By Wednesday, everyone (minus Inkling and the Captain cos he loves his "sweet little boy" too much had cheated at least once.)

Tweak and Dashi were watching a movie Tuesday night, and whenever they watch a movie, they need to eat some sort of junk food, so Tweak snuck some popcorn (even though popcorn isn't that bad for you). She couldn't even eat that much of it cos Dashi kept giving her a guilty, puppy-dog-eyes face every time either of them took a bite, and Tweak finally caved and they ate fruit instead.

To make it up to Peso, everyone decided to redo that whole week plus one week minus the days they lasted. or example, if someone gave up on the first day (Kwazii...) 7-1= 6, so Kwazii would have to eat only healthy foods for 13 days instead of 7. Peso was so happy when his family promised to do this that he started bouncing up and down and gave everyone cuddles.