Veggie Packed Meals That Your Finicky Kids Will Love to Eat

If you have ever found yourself trying to get your child to eat their vegetables by bribing them, playing airplane, or a number of other tools, you are not alone. Kids don’t always want to eat their veggies, and sometimes for parents, fighting them over it can be tiresome. So, what are your options? Do you leave them vegetable deficient in order to avoid the fight? Or do you find ways to get them to eat the veggies without the fight? The latter is the better choice, and the following recipe ideas will help. Here are two great veggie packed meal plans kids will love:

Veggie muffins with a veggie omelet.

This is a veggie packed breakfast that your kids will love. Consider pumpkin muffins, or zucchini muffins. Most of the time kids do not realize that their muffin is filled with veggies, and are happy to eat it. Additionally, most kids like eggs, and will not mind a few veggies in them, as long as there are not many of them, and they are cut into bite size pieces. You can add even more vegetables to the meal by serving a drink like V8 Fusion which has a mix of veggies and fruits, but tastes more like fruit juice than anything else, so your kids will not notice.

Try disguising vegetables in soup.

Veggie dips with chicken nuggets, quesadilla, or anything else your child likes.

The idea here is to give your child some vegetables without them knowing it. Kids love to dip things, so consider making a hummus out of peas, or a dip out of blended veggies. Your child can put chicken into the veggie dip, and quesadillas into the veggie dip, so that they get veggies with every bite, and not even realize it. Season the veggies so that your child will find them appetizing, and will go back for more. For a sweet dip, consider sweet potatoes mixed with cinnamon, which works for apples, and all kinds of other foods.

Veggie soups.

A wonderful way to get your child a veggie packed meal is to add vegetables to soup. If your child is not going to eat a soup that has chunks of vegetables in it, then consider blending them up, and feeding your child a thicker soup that is full of flavor, but not something they will know of as veggies. Kids like soup, especially when you add in some cheese toast, or something similar.

Kids do not always want veggies, but a lot of the time it is out of mental dislike rather than the actual taste of the vegetable. So, cut the veggies up really small so that they are not as intrusive. Blend them and add them to dips, to soups, to dressings, and all sorts of other things you can be sure your child will eat. They won’t notice as long as they do not see you adding them in. You can even add veggies to milkshakes, smoothies, etc.