How to get your child to eat vegetables
Disguise vegetables by blending them into a tomato sauce and serve with pasta. You can double bluff by leaving a few chunky vegetables in the sauce for your child to pick out, then he’ll never suspect there are still some there. Try my hidden vegetable sauce!
Offer crudités. Many children who don’t like cooked vegetables will eat them raw. Vegetables like carrot, cucumber and sweet pepper sticks make a great snack any time of the day and you can serve them with a tasty dip like hummus.
No more soggy veg! Over cooked soggy vegetables are a turn off. Steam rather than boil vegetables, they taste and look better. Alternatively stir fry vegetables. Its worth buying a wok, stir frying mange tout in a little butter is much nicer than boiling them and boiling broccoli almost halves its vitamin C content.
Sneak! You can sneak vegetables into other popular dishes like wraps, cannelloni, lasagne, quesadillas or hide vegetables under grated cheese in pizzas.
Unusual Veg - Try adding some more unusual vegetables like Chinese Cabbage, Snow Peas, Bean Sprouts and Baby Sweetcorn to stir fries. Add a splash of teriyaki sauce and some noodles for added child appeal. And how about some child friendly chopsticks that are joined at the top – your child will have so much fun picking up the food he will forget to make a fuss.
Featured Recipes
Vegetarian Recipe
It’s easy to make your own ‘Healthy Fast Food’ like these tasty pizzas which use split toasted muffins for the base of the pizza.
Fish Recipe
Making food look attractive is important, and so it seems much more appealing to make individual fish pies rather than have a dollop of food on the plate.
Meat Recipe
Why not make you own healthy burgers using good quality minced beef and no nasties. The delicious hamburger recipe can be made with beef, lamb or chicken.
Pasta Recipe
Always popular with kids, but the ones you buy are really high in salt. It only takes a few minutes to make your own and its fun to serve them in a cup, a bit like pot noodles.
Chicken Recipe
Marinating chicken in buttermilk gives it a delicious flavour and keeps it nice and tender. Japanese honey panko breadcrumbs are particularly good for this.
