vegetables

[Naomi]

Does anyone have recipes that 'hide' vegetables? Like vege muffins or pikelets or something like that?

Also, any hints for getting a toddler to eat vegetables?

[Barbara]

I've got a kids cookbook that might have a few so I'll have a look at it & let you know.

[floria]

Grated vegies is supposed to disguise the food. Like vegies pikelets, grate some zucchini or carrot and make them savoury pikelets.

Spaghetti Bol meat sauce, grate the vegies and cook them through the meat.

My 4 year old nephew has an aversion to vegies as well which is not helped by his mother's dislike of them as well.

Good luck.

[Barbara]

vegie burgers, vegie omelette, soup?????

[MissieK]

I hide them in almost everything!!

I've found with my boys that giving veggies to them as finger food works well, as does serving them dinner & not letting them eat anything else until they've eaten everything on their plate. ;)

Melissa

[Tora]

A shepherds pie type dish always worked for my children. Lots of grated vegies mixed with the meat hidden under mashed potatoe and grated cheese on top!!! ;)


Anne (Tora)

[Patricia]

I agree with the other ladies, mince will hide veges really well be it in savory mince or little meat balls orpatties.

When my kids were little I used to cut up a load of fruit and veges every lunch time and let them help themselves to the 'platter'...they are both now fruit and vege fans.

Grated carrot, apple and sultanas were another winner as were lightly blanched broccoli (little trees :P)

Another trick i would use is to make little sandwiches with grated things in them and cut them into little shapes with cookie cutters....I'm sure Hugo would love that!

Good luck!

[Naomi]

Thank you thank you thank you ... so many ideas to try!

[Mimi]

What I have started doing is putting a load of cooked vegies in the blender, adding some tomato juice and whizzing it away to make a runny paste. Then whenever I make DS something to eat, I'll spoon afew tablespoons of the paste into his food. He dosent even realise. Even when he eats 2 minute noodles, I'll put a load of the veg paste through it and he wolfs the food down. Whenever I make him pizzas I'll use the paste as the tomato base.
It was my mums idea, and I cant believe I never thought of it sooner!!

[Naomi]

Mimi, I actually tried something similar myself this week, but I made a thicker paste and just added to whatever he was eating and so far so good. So he's had chicken vege rissoles, and he'll eat mashed potato, so I've mixed some vege paste in with potato a couple of times.

[Colby]

WOW!!! You ladies are very creative :) I recently made a chicken and sweet corn soup and added extra vegies into it.

Also I have a great receipe for a vegie and bean shepherd's pie but instead of using potatoe I use sweet potatoe (just to make it more interesting).

I'm just disguising them for ourselves as we don't have any kids :yes:

[Belldyl]

I grate carrots into the mince for my meat pie. I thought my kids would notice and complain but they didn't. Actually my daughter loves this pie more than the one without carrot......go figure!!........lol

[~Jodie~]

I got sick of grating slicing dicing and hiding. My kids now eat most vegies.

When abby went throught this stage we started a small vegie patch and she was very excited to see everything grow, now nothing makes it into the house the girls pick it and eat it on the spot. They even eat tomatoes now !

All vegies can be grown in pots if there is not enough room in the garden, they just need a little more water.

[Naomi]

I think at 15 months, he's probably a bit young to get anything out of growing our own veges but I think the concept is a good one, and I'll probably try it as he gets older (hopefully he'd inherited some of my nana's green thumb because I tend to kill most things we try to grow). I'm just working on the exposure theory at the moment - that if I give it to him enough in whatever form, eventually he'll eat them as is. I can hope ...

[Colby]

When abby went throught this stage we started a small vegie patch and she was very excited to see everything grow, now nothing makes it into the house the girls pick it and eat it on the spot. They even eat tomatoes now !

That's a great way to get them excited about vegies :)

Actually I noticed that my parents have started growing their own vegies and my niece and nephew LOVE coming over and seeing how their vege garden is going. They too eat everything off there as soon as they can and they only make it inside to wash the dirt off. Actually my nephew would probably eat it with the dirt on if he was allowed LMAO

When I was with them last week, I was so impressed at how much they liked their vegies... my niece couldn't get enough of carrots and my nephew wanted more and more cucumber.

[michelle_72]

I have a recipe for rissoles which combines mince, carrot, onion and zucchini (all grated) with breadcrumbs, tomato sauce and soy sauce. Or mabye macaroni cheese with spinach, onion and bacon for variety.

[Luv Angel Musik Babee]

Hmmmm some very good idea's here. I ahte to admit it but I hate vegies and therfeore so does my eldset as he copies everything I do plus I never really got him into vegies when he was a baby. But Ty well now he loves vegies, I haven't made the same mistake twice. He has vegies pretty much every night a mixture of potato, pumpkin, cauliflower, brocolli and carrot all mixed together and pureed. I tried cabbage once and he hated that and he doesnt like eating it without pumpkin. He's such a good baby, I learnt from Gav what to do and what not to do

[mejane]

I learnt from Gav what to do and what not to do
Yep :) that's always the way it is with the eldest child!