More ways to hide veg!
Other Potatoes - Instead of boring mashed potato, why not combine mashed potato with carrot or sweet potato – it’s a good source of betacarotene. Sweet potato is also delicious on its own and contains more vitamins and fibre than ordinary potato. You can use it as substitute for potato to make oven baked potato wedges or mash. Interestingly the more colourful the vegetable the better it is for you as the pigment contains valuable antioxidants.
Yummy Dressings - The secret to getting your child to enjoy eating salad is to come up with a delicious dressing. There are some yummy dressings in my books and clever ways with salads like adding crispy noodles or giving the salad a Japanese flavour with a dressing made from mirin, soy sauce, rice wine vinegar and honey.
Veggie Snacks - A simple batter can transform vegetables into an exciting snack. If you can’t get your child to eat any green vegetables, try making courgette batons with a crispy coating flavoured with parmesan.
Grow Your Own - How about growing your own vegetables and get your child involved ? It’s surprisingly easy to grow vegetables like potato, broccoli, courgettes and runner beans. Children will be intrigued to eat something they have grown themselves.
Finger Foods - Children like eating with their fingers so serve vegetables like whole corn on the cob with melted butter or baked potato wedges..
For other top tips for Fussy Eaters, please click here. For more recipes take a look at the Fussy Eaters Recipe Book. – you can preview this book on my website.
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.
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.
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
p>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.
