Sneaking in Vegetables for Kids

by Sarah

Some quick tips for adding vegetable content when you’re preparing meals for picky kids:

• Use vegetable cocktail in a soup. If a recipe calls for stock, tomatoes or tomato sauce, you can switch part of it out for vegetable cocktail and get the added nutrients from the other vegetables in the juice without affecting the taste too much. You can also add it without substituting out anything else in order to stretch the recipe a bit without thinning the soup as much as you would with stock.
• If your kids don’t like “chunks” in pasta sauces, you can throw in whatever vegetables you like, the puree the sauce to get the benefit of added nutrients that picky eaters will barely notice
• Keep a tray of raw vegetables available on the coffee table – it’s amazing how much will get eaten if it’s sitting right out in front of people, even those who say they can’t stand vegetables

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Posted in Easy Food, Health and Beauty, Parenting on May 9, 2008
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