Trying to get your kids to eat more vegetables is almost impossible—I said “almost”!
It’s simple to incorporate more health in the form of fresh vegetables into your family meals, particularly if your children are none the wiser. So instead of struggling with your kids to eat their peas and carrots, here are 10 sneaky ways you can ensure they are getting their daily portions of veggies…without them even knowing it…
Pumpkin Puree
Use it as a healthy thickener in recipes like pudding and macaroni and cheese. It is a great source of various vitamins and minerals that is good to help appropriate growth for age.
Mashed Avocado
Use it as an alternative spread for butter or margarine on sandwiches. A great source of healthy fats.
Blended Spinach
Throw a few handfuls into a fruit smoothie—they won’t even taste it! You can also blend spinach into a pesto sauce or various pasta sauces.
Sweet Potatoes
Mash together a combination of yellow and sweet potatoes in your next Shepherd’s pie.
Camouflaged Cauliflower
Cauliflower picks up the flavor and blends in inconspicuously with pasta sauces. Cauliflower can also be used with foods like potatoes. Make mashed potatoes with it and you won’t notice the consistency or flavor change.
Sweet Carrots
Carrots are naturally sweet so they hide perfectly inside of cookies and muffins while sneaking in extra potassium, fiber, and antioxidants.
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.
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! Consider making pizza on large and thicker slices of eggplants.
Ground Mushrooms
Do you make a mean meatball? How about grinding some mushrooms into your meat mix to increase the vitamins A and potassium.
Wrap Things Up
Wrapping up a sandwich has two 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!
