Help me hide vegetables!

[MantaRay]

I know how you feel Michelle, although I had them the other way around. Getting DS1 to eat vegies (or anything much in fact) was a challenge. DS2 on the other hand, has eaten everything in sight from 6 months and especially fruit and vege. Carrot is one of his favourite foods LOL! GL with your DD.

[ACJ]

Kellie - Rhys has been the same lately.....I have been making litle omelette for him with grated vege through them. He is loving them!! Hehehehehehe...... I so far have put zucchini, carrot, potato, pumpkin, beans cut into rounds, frozen corn and peas, tomato, bacon and diced chicken through them!! Tho it is the only thing he will eat for dinner at the moment.

[~kellie~]

Thanks everyone for the suggestions, will give them a go.

Might have to have a look for that book too!

Thanks again!

[DoubleK]

Manta Ray, i have never thought to put something in the egg for crumbing chicken! i make my own nuggets for DD, and ill definitely be trying this one!

one thing i do is grate onion & zuchinni and mix it into plain rice.. i actually posted up recently if it would freeze ok, so now i have about 5 snap lock bags of frozen rice! dd loves eating rice with her ****tail franks- not my idea of yummy meal, but does her for lunch!

[Jacki]

DS isn't too keen on veges so I do a fair bit of hiding.
I recently made pizza with thin slices of sweet potato, potato, pear, cumin and cheese - he couldn't eat it fast enough.
Mixed veges, chicken, pasta and a cheese sauce is also a bit of a winner.
Its amazing how many veges you can hide in spag bol if you blitz it up at the end (same goes when turning it into lasagne or meatloaf).
Maz - love the broccoli in the egg idea!

[christy]

Sorry I missed this thread. Our family lives off of pureed vegetables. We have quite a few issues with our oldest refusing all vegetables except carrots and potatoes. (She's unaware that the red sauce on pasta includes tomatoes )

I have in the freezer at the moment, 1 sweet potato mashed into 1/4 cup portions, 1 broccoli steamed and pureed with 150gm spinach and put into ice cubes, 1 cauliflower pureed and stored in 1/4 cup portions.

I add these to nearly everything I make. If I make a homemade pizza, I will mix 2 of the broccoli cubes and 1 sweet potato in with the tomato paste with herbs & spices for the base. Then she thinks she's having ham pizza "With NO vegetables mummy", mini quiches with cauliflower hidden and 3 of the "green" cubes... and ham, lamb & potato curry with special sauce (i.e. sweet potato and cauliflower curry sauce....)

[Roryrory]

In case you need more convincing, I can put in another vote for the Jessica Seinfeld book!