Main CourseSneaky Ways To Add Vegetables To Your Children's Dinners
Planning dinners for your family can be hard if your children don"t like to eat vegetables. It"s the same every night with your children, they eat their meat and they eat their dinner rolls but skip the broccoli or cauliflower. If your children have an aversion to vegetables, don"t despair. With some easy and sneaky ways, you can have a healthy, vegetable filled dinner and your kids won"t even know it.
Kids love to eat spaghetti. The long noodles and yummy tomato sauce with cheese is a hit for most children. A great way to sneak in vegetables is to shred some carrots and add some spinach to the spaghetti sauce. Let it simmer and when it"s time to eat watch your children clean their plate.
Chili is another great meal that many children love. By adding celery, carrots, tomatoes, and even some zucchini your chili will be hearty and extremely healthy. The spices added to chili will overpower any vegetables in the meal. Serve with some buttermilk biscuits and your kids will be wanting seconds.
Burritos are always a hit in my family. A twist to burritos is egg burritos. Toss some red pepper and yellow peppers, cheese and ham and you have a complete meal rolled up into a burrito.
Macaroni and cheese is a great and fast meal to make on busy nights. Many people add wieners to the meal but you can also add broccoli in small pieces. It tastes great and I"m sure your children will learn to want broccoli over wieners.
Casseroles are a great way to disguise vegetables. Toss some chicken, noodles, peas and carrots with some cream of mushroom soup and you have a winner at the table. Children won"t even know there"s vegetables in their meal and will chomp away on chicken and noodles. For bread make corn bread or zucchini bread to even add more vegetables to the meal.
To start your children liking vegetables, a great way is to introduce a platter of veggies with some veggie dip. Have the platter out in the kitchen for when they come home and model eating the veggies. Have different dips like ranch, thousand island and blue cheese. Over time children will learn to like vegetables.