2. Mashed Avocado
Use it as an alternative spread for butter or margarine on sandwiches.
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3. Blended Spinach
Throw a few handfuls into a fruit smoothie—they won’t even taste it!
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4. Sweet Potatoes
Mash together a combination of yellow and sweet potatoes in your next Sheppard’s pie.
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5. Camouflaged Cauliflower
Cauliflower picks up the flavor and blends in inconspicuously with pasta sauces.
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6. Sweet Carrots
Carrots are naturally sweet so they hide perfectly inside of cookies and muffins while sneaking in extra potassium, fiber, and antioxidants.
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7. Pulverized Peppers
The great thing about pureeing foods is that they’re able to hide fairly unnoticeably in jarred goods—such as salsa or spaghetti sauce.
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8. Encouraging Eggplant
The texture of a rounded piece of eggplant can be mistaken—in taste and texture—for a rounded piece of pepperoni, especially if hungry kiddies are scarfing down a few slices of pizza!
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9. Ground Mushrooms
Do you make a mean meatball? How about grinding some mushrooms into your meat mix to increase the vitamins A and potassium.
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10. Wrap Things Up
Wrapping up a sandwich has 2 benefits—first, it keeps things clean and tidy and second, it lets you sneak in things like hummus and thinly sliced veggies without kids even knowing!
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