Hiding Veggies?

[intriguedlady]

I am in the same boat as you. I have a 17 month old that will eat fruit til the cows come home but is very picky about veggies. Other posters have mentioned "Deceptively Delicious". I also use a cookbook called "No Whine for Dinner" that incorporates a lot of shredded veggies. Our favorite has been a pasta casserole that has shredded zucchini. You cannot see the zucchini and the flavor blends in with all the other ingredients.

 

[Bottomlover]

Not too much for me to add, but we too have had great success with roasting veggies (asparagus, carrots, parsnips and even brussel sprouts).

It might be a little early for your little one, but getting them involved in planting, cultivating and later harvesting dinner has made my kids from a previous marriage huge veggie eaters, and it worked well on the 3 YO we have now.

 

[Eilan]

I am in the same boat as you. I have a 17 month old that will eat fruit til the cows come home but is very picky about veggies. Other posters have mentioned "Deceptively Delicious". I also use a cookbook called "No Whine for Dinner" that incorporates a lot of shredded veggies. Our favorite has been a pasta casserole that has shredded zucchini. You cannot see the zucchini and the flavor blends in with all the other ingredients.

Yes! That's the book I was thinking of!

 

[warrior queen]

For a while, my eldest son refused point-blank to eat vegetables.
Then I discovered that he'd happily filch a few frozen vegetables whenever I had them sitting in a bowl ready to cook.
So, I just put a handful of frozen vegetables on his plate one day. And he ate every single one!
Frozen corn, peas, beans, carrots, broccoli and cauliflower, all went down without a struggle.
He ate frozen veges for about 2 years.