Any devious ideas for hiding veggies?

MrsE_2

Do NOT make food a battle ground or a control tool. Serve him up the same food as the family are having & then let him eat or not (Obviously you are going to make some concessions about what he will & will not eat, but don't let him know you are).

candie_gill

i puree cooked carrot and hide it in my little ones baked beans, you can do the same with tomato sauce.

Grated carrot can also be added to pancakes, yorkshire pudding mix and they wont taste it.

My LO will eat any fruit but only veg is potato and baked beans, drives me mad!

claire21

another thing I saw supernanny do on TV was let them design a paper plate as a template of what they would eat for tea.

so let him draw eg make the plate into sections with the veg section being very small, then let him draw in things he likes in other sections eg burger, bun, baked beans and then the veg - give him lots of colours to design it - so he might like a bright orange to draw a carrot.

then put the paper plate next to his plate at the table so he can see it's the same as he designed - keep each plate he designs and reuse over a period with the others he makes.

The kid of TV was so extreme he couldnt even touch veg

He will probably be doing about foods at school and healthy eating - talk to his teacher and say he will bring in his paper plate for her to see every few days- nothing like a bit of praise from a teacher to make him feel good.

Butterfly_Brain

How about making your own fruit leather or dipping strawberries in chocolate, Eton mess, toffee apples or Toffee bananas. I agree about the HM lollies from fruit as well
DD's BF is the fussiest beggar on this planet and won't eat any fruit and veg but I use my veg water to make gravy and it usually has small bits of veg in it and he absolutely loves my gravy.
I also grate carrot into burgers etc when he stays over, he also loves banana cake.

In contrast my two love fruit and veg and prefer a lot of veg raw to cooked, they have been brought up with this from babies.

iamana1ias

Toffee apples???? Might as well give fruit flavoured sherbet!!

GeDink

I cook and serve the meal in the middle of the table.

The rules are:

You HAVE to take something of everything (even a tsp counts) and you HAVE to clear your plate to get pudding.

This took a while to get through to my kids...........

Expect lots of tantrums and feeling awful, BUT it has worked very very well........both children now eat what is put on the table and considering 1 was a meat eater and no veg, while the other was a veg eater and no meat this is no mean feat! 1 dislikes spicy 'ish' foods, 1 dislikes any form of carbs.....potatoes, rice, pasta etc. But the perseverance paid off.......I did tend to make a BIG BIG thing of the pudding.....this could be anything but mine seemed geared towards ice cream........cue lots of sauces - raspberry, chocolate etc, then what sprinkles did they want.......made a HUGE fuss of it and after a few days it started to work.

Just got to persevere and not give in.......even though you may feel like it at times!

Both mine now eat what is put on the table and they still love fussing over what sprinkles to put on their ice cream.

Diannec1985

iamana1ias wrote: »

My godchildren were weaned on normal adult food (including curries and steaks) and they are the least fussy eaters I've ever met (aged 7 and 5)!!

What about your children??

Diannec1985

Some brilliant and much appreciated ideas, like everything it seems to obvious when someone else suggests it! I have in the past rinsed casseroled meat in hot water or put gravy over to disguise sauces etc so perhaps I will go easy this lunch time with the casserole sauce for him. Decisions decisions.

gizmo111

Will he eat raw veg? My daughter now 18 hated veg but eats it all raw - carrots, potatoes, cauliflower, cabbage, swede about 3 years ago she upgraded to eating potatoes roasted! I also blend onion and mushrooms when making a bolgonese/chiili cottage pie so they can't see them, same when making burgers etc.
Mine always loved fruit cut up for them with a little sugar on apples, the thing that put them off was the peel and peeling satsumas etc.
They both hate peas!

GeDink

I (as well as a lot of mums on here I suspect) do tend to blend vegetables into sauces.

Home-made pizza sauce, casseroles, stews, spag-bol, lasagne are all fantastic to hide veg in.

Yes, I do blend and make sauce to hide things in, but I follow the 'building blocks for freezer' sorry I forget who initiated this!

My children follow a balanced diet but it never hurts to slip a few vegetables in. If queried I tell them it's herbs lol