Most parents know that feeding kids vegetables can sometimes be a challenging chore; but, it’s so important for children to get their veggies, which is why we have a few tips and a great recipe for “hiding” these healthy ingredients into food. The kids won’t even know!
- Try chopping up vegetables like broccoli and spinach very fine and adding it to your pasta sauce or lasagna.
- Make the meal fun – grill vegetables on skewers along with lemons, which will add a zesty flavour. Plus, kids seem to really enjoy eating things on sticks.
- If you hide vegetables as toppings on the always delicious pizza, the kids might be too excited about having pizza that they won’t ask what that green stuff is.
- Add spinach or other veggies (chopped small) to cheesy, homemade mac and cheese or grilled cheese – the cheese is likely to mask the vegetables.
- Add veggies to breakfast with chopped up varieties in scrambled eggs or a quiche. Tell the kids it’s pie!
One of our personal favourites for sneaking veggies into a recipe is this one for chocolate zucchini cake. You could even bake this in muffin tins instead and freeze for school snacks.
Chocolate zucchini bread
Ingredients
2 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups grated zucchini
1 cup flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tbsp. cocoa
1 tsp. vanilla
Instructions
Place eggs, sugar and oil in bowl and whisk together. Add all other ingredients and combine. Place in a 9×9 greased pan and bake at 350˚F for approximately 25 minutes.
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