Vegetable Recipes

Vegetables are a great way to provide the necessary vitamins and
minerals to your family. However, how many times have you told your
children to eat their vegetables? Probably a lot.

For some reason,
children have an aversion to vegetables. They will cry and sit for hours
before you finally give in and send them from the table.

Vegetables do not always have to be the enemy. The key is to find a
creative way to prepare them and your family will become vegetable
lovers rather than vegetable haters!

Do you remember when you were a child and your mother dropped a soggy
green lump of cabbage on your plate. Did you want to eat it? Almost
certainly not.

There are various ways to encourage your children to eat their
Vegetable
Recipes. You might even need to trick them! Broccoli is an example
of a vegetable, which is high in vitamin and mineral content, and there
are plenty of ways to prepare it. Here are some tips:

Try it raw. Leave a plate of raw broccoli in bite-size pieces in the
refrigerator for your children as a snack. Offer some salad dressing so
they can dip it and this is often a hit. Leave the tips of the broccoli
on the plate and encourage your child to eat them. You can even make a
creative game of this. Grilled vegetable recipes are not the only way to
serve healthy vegetables.

If all else fails, bribery often works. Tell your child that they
will get a special treat if they finish their vegetables. Make sure you
have a treat for them afterwards.

Use cheese. Cheese and broccoli go very well together. If you pour a
cheese sauce over the broccoli, you are adding texture and changing the
flavor. You might find your children eat the broccoli in cheese before
whatever else you have served with it.

Lasagna is delicious with broccoli added. Smothering it in cheese can
add to the flavor and disguise the broccoli. Children will be too busy
enjoying the cheesy flavor to bother picking out the bits of broccoli.
Vegetable pizza is another way of sneaking in broccoli. Nearly all kids
love pizza so a healthy vegetable pizza recipe will produce something
they associate with fun rather than veggies.

Chop it up - if all else fails, pre cook the broccoli and let it cool
a little and put it in a food processor. Chop it up until it is not
recognizable and add it to whatever dish you are cooking. Your children
will not even know it is there.

Shakes - this might sound weird but it works. Make a milkshake with
milk, ice cream, and chocolate syrup. Add some broccoli to the shake
(make sure the kids aren't watching!) and blend it some more. As long as
you use a chunky type of ice cream, your kids will not realize the
broccoli is there and hopefully they will drink the shake too fast to
notice any stray green bits!

Vegetables are high in essential nutrients, especially for growing
kids, so it is great that there are so many ways to get them to eat
their veggies!