How to get children away from convenience food?

peachyprice

Anything with tomatoes, like the soup, pasta sauces etc. will become much sweeter the longer they are cooked. I can never understand how people can make bolognese in 20mins, mine simmers for 3 hours!! I've never put sugar in a tomato recipe.

Siebrie

peachyprice wrote: »

Anything with tomatoes, like the soup, pasta sauces etc. will become much sweeter the longer they are cooked. I can never understand how people can make bolognese in 20mins, mine simmers for 3 hours!! I've never put sugar in a tomato recipe.

Thank you for the validation! My tomato sauces take forever, because I bake/cook the acid off, and that takes some time.


I do use a blender to 'hide' veggies for my daughters, especially dd2, who is going through a 'no veggies' phase.

euronorris

You can add dried apricots (blitzed in blender first) to tomato sauces for the younger ones. Reduces the acidity a bit.

VfM4meplse

euronorris wrote: »

You can add dried apricots (blitzed in blender first) to tomato sauces for the younger ones. Reduces the acidity a bit.

I think finely shredded carrots would do the trick too, they melt into nothing so the kids won't have a scooby.

ToastLady

I agree that tomato sauces should be simmered for a good time, and I don't add sugar to my tomato based sauces/soups. The quick soup recipe with added sugar was for my GD in place of convenience. I tried it out before sending it on, and it was really nice, and good in a hurry. Am liking the idea of blitzing fruit in with the soup for added sweetness instead of sugar....thought orange might be a good idea too, but still to try it.

ToastLady

My tomato soup has carrots in anyway, so normally without sugar, it's totally fine for me, and it gets blitzed anyway, so hidden if anyway has an aversion to carrots.