Any devious ideas for hiding veggies?

D&DD · 28 January 2006 at 2:26PM

My boys are quite good on the fruit front but would love for them to eat more veg.They eat peas and carrots (homegrown) but not really anything else.I grow lettuce,toms,all the brassicas,french beans,onions,beetroot,turnips,potatoes,spinach,chard,kale and courgettes to name but a few...are there any ideas out there for sneaking a few bits into their food.I just got the recipe for the beetroot muffins which looks brill this is the sort of thing I need thanks a lot XX

comping_cat · 28 January 2006 at 2:37PM

Puree the veg up, and add it to sauces and gravys, hopefully they wont notice the veg as there would be no lumps!!!

ashmit · 28 January 2006 at 2:49PM

Mash turnip in with mashed potato. Yum

I've posted a recipe for spicy bean burgers somewhere... if you chop/grate the veg really small, they may not notice - depends how much they pick their food apart! Ooh and I also posted a mushroom burger recipe that you'd never know from looking was made of mushrooms.

I think I've also posted a courgette cake on a courgette thread somewhere (and other people had posted different recipes) - that may help!

Edited to say - isn't there a thread about this somewhere??

Edited again:
mushroom burgers
spicy bean burgers

crossleydd42 · 28 January 2006 at 3:00PM

This may give you some idea:

http://va.essortment.com/howtofeedvege_rhri.htm

Personally, we found that our kids ate vegetables without a fuss when they put neat mint sauce, from the jar, over them. It's surprisingly nice and I did it only the other day for Sunday dinner!

crossleydd42 · 28 January 2006 at 4:14PM

ashmit wrote:

Mash turnip in with mashed potato. Yum

This may be a regional thing, but I always felt turnip the most tasteless vegetable goingl I liked swede, though, and wonder if this is what others call turnips. Turnips are small, about beetroot size, and swede large.

spalding · 28 January 2006 at 4:25PM

I add chopped spinach to anything with mince, such as Lasagne the reviews I have is people prefer and don't realise its there

Gingham_Ribbon · 28 January 2006 at 4:28PM

crossleydd42 wrote:

ashmit wrote:

Mash turnip in with mashed potato. Yum

This may be a regional thing, but I always felt turnip the most tasteless vegetable goingl I liked swede, though, and wonder if this is what others call turnips. Turnips are small, about beetroot size, and swede large.

May well be a regional thing. I love turnip (the wee ones) and could take or leave the bland bigger swede.

Swan_2 · 28 January 2006 at 4:50PM

crossleydd42 wrote:

This may be a regional thing, but I always felt turnip the most tasteless vegetable goingl I liked swede, though, and wonder if this is what others call turnips. Turnips are small, about beetroot size, and swede large.

here in Scotland turnip=the large yellow-fleshed one & white turnip=the small white-fleshed ones
I'd never even heard the term swede until my first visit to England

as for flavour, I think a lot depends on the particular variety. when I grew my own veg, I chose my seeds for flavour rather than appearance & uniformity & my turnips (of both kinds) were always much tastier than the ones from the shops

comping_cat · 28 January 2006 at 4:52PM

I also grate carrot into my mince, so far my 2 havnt noticed!!!! Also my son when he was a toddler used to eat his veg covered in apple sauce!!!!

Swan_2 · 28 January 2006 at 4:56PM

D&DD wrote:

My boys are quite good on the fruit front but would love for them to eat more veg.They eat peas and carrots (homegrown) but not really anything else.I grow lettuce,toms,all the brassicas,french beans,onions,beetroot,turnips,potatoes,spinach,chard,kale and courgettes to name but a few...are there any ideas out there for sneaking a few bits into their food.I just got the recipe for the beetroot muffins which looks brill this is the sort of thing I need thanks a lot XX

will your boys eat soup? lots of scope for adding veg there. if they don't like chunky soups, you could always try catowen's pureeing tip

I could never get my youngest to eat soup, took me years to figure out that it wasn't the veg etc he didn't like, he was just too lazy to make the effort to eat it without getting himself in a mess :rolleyes:

BargainAholic_2 · 28 January 2006 at 5:44PM

Beetroot & Chocolate Muffins..

Ingredients
75g/2½oz cocoa powder or powdered drinking chocolate
180g/6½oz plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
250g/8½oz caster sugar
250g/8½oz cooked beetroot
3 large eggs
200ml/7fl oz corn oil
1 tsp vanilla extract
icing sugar for dusting

Method
1. Preheat the oven to 180C/355F/Gas 4. Arrange paper muffin cases in a 12-mould muffin tin.
2. Sift the cocoa powder, flour and baking powder into a bowl. Mix in the sugar, and set aside.
3. Purée the beetroot in a food processor. Add the eggs, one at a time, then add the vanilla and oil and blend until smooth.
4. Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients, add the beetroot mixture and lightly mix. Pour into the muffin cases.
5. Bake for 30 minutes or until the top is firm when pressed with a finger.
6. Cool on a wire rack and dust with icing sugar to serve.

Makes 12

Butternut Squash Muffins

Ingredients
½ butternut squash, peeled and grated
110g/4oz self-raising flour
110g/4oz soft brown sugar
110g/4oz unsalted butter
2 eggs
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp cinnamon
butter, for greasing
icing sugar, to dust

Method
1. Preheat the oven to 220C/425F/Gas 7.
2. Place the squash, flour, brown sugar, butter, eggs, baking powder and cinnamon into a food processor and blend together until combined.
3. Grease a muffin tin with butter and spoon the mixture in. Bake in the oven for 12-14 minutes, or until golden and cooked through.
4. Remove the muffins from the oven and transfer to a cooling rack.
5. Dust with icing sugar to serve.

Makes 6

They'll NEVER know!
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