There’s a great post at Vegan Lunch Box on how to sneak vegetables into your child’s diet. Among the suggestions from Jennifer and her readers:
Use a blender to add cooked kale to pizza sauce. I’d imagine it would work just as well with spaghetti sauce, too!
Add spinach to fruit smoothies. I don’t know if I could actually do this. But they say blueberries hide the spinach very well.
Add mashed sweet potatoes to pancakes. I had some sweet potato pancakes at a restaurant once, and they were great. I’ll probably try this.
Baked goods made with shredded carrots and zucchini. I love carrot cake and zucchini bread, so I’m not sure why this hadn’t occurred to me. Poppy loves bread, so I’m pretty sure she’d eat a zucchini muffin.
In slightly related news: The Laptop Lunch photo pool on Flickr is making me hungry. I just bought one of these little guys for Rockford. I’ve been falling down on the job with packing his lunches, and thus I keep seeing the on-campus cafe popping up in the check register. I’m pretty excited about the Laptop Lunch. Because it’s adorable and I’m a sucker for tiny containers.
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