. How to Sneak Veggies into Kids Food Book Recommendation

I think some kids need to be eased into trying things. Hiding is sometime necessary to get them receptive to widening their diets. Here is my picky eater cookbook arsenal. One book is a medical approach as some resistent kids actually have undiagnosed eating challenges unbeknownst to mom:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Sneaky-Chef-Strategies-Favorite...

http://www.amazon.com/The-Sneaky-Chef-Rescue-Creating/dp/...

http://www.amazon.com/Superfoods-Babies-Children-Annabel-...

www.annabelkarmel.com

http://www.amazon.com/Sneaky-Veggies-Vegetables-Under-Fam...

http://www.amazon.com/Food-Chaining-Feeding-Problems-Chil...

http://www.amazon.com/Deceptively-Delicious-Simple-Secret...

You don't need to sneak vegetables into your kids' diet - there are lots of tasty ways to prepare them. The first thing to do is stop approaching eating them as a necessary evil and recognize them for the delectable morsels they are.
Accept that your kids will not like every food you put before them and keep trying new things or new ways of preparing old things until you find some they like.
Don't be too quick to generalize foods either. Because your child likes or dislikes a certain food doesn't mean that s/he will feel the same about similar foods. For example, when she was growing up, my daughter loved mustard greens and spinach, but not collards, turnips, chard, or kale.She loved zucchini but didn't care for yellow squash.

I am appalled by this idea. This doesn't change the way kids eat. It just teaches them only to like "goodies" and to refuse anything that doesn't come in one of their favorite dishes.

I've told my boys "not every thing I make you is going to be your number one favorite thing. Get over it. Eating is about giving your body energy so it can move and grow. You can't eat only the yummiest stuff and expect to do that."

Don't hide veggies in your kids' food. Veggies already DO taste good. Play with different cooking methods (steamed, roasted, grilled), and different seasonings. But DON'T hide them! Plant a small garden and let the kids pick their veggies...THAT will get them interested too.

http://www.amazon.com/Deceptively-Delicious-Simple-Secret...

This is Jessica Seinfeld's book that Jaycee is talking about.

Bon appetit!

jessica seinfield has a book. I think its deceptively delicious or something like that.

In response to some of the posters against sneaking veggies into kids' food, I don't think it's necessarily a matter of sneaking in the veggies and then not offering veggies in addition. I do both. My kids eat the veggies on their plates, and also the ones hidden in their Mac and cheese, muffins, pancakes, cookies. What it actually accomplishes is that it changes their palates. They actually start to prefer foods that are enriched with veggies. Maybe it's not universal, but it's worked for us. I think you have to be patient and stick with it, it doesn't happen overnight.

I used jessica seinfeld's book initially to get ideas; then I adapted it to foods we eat more often. You start to just have a knack for which veggies will blend well with which foods. PM me if you want some ideas. :-)

These books are ridiculous. Really? We have to hide healthy foods from our kids? Make one meal... they eat it. Period.

I think the book you are looking for is the Jessica Seinfeld book, though. She did the talkshow circuit a couple of years ago wiith it... thought it was a silly concept then and still do. Of course, several others have copied her and are enjoying the "fruits" of this backward "wisdom".

Try a smoothie with spinach or kale blended in, fruits help. And you don't taste the greens. We love roasted cauliflower toss a large head of cauliflower with two cloves of minced garlic and three tablespoons of olive oil roast in the oven on a cookie sheet at three seventy five for about twenty five minutes or until lightly golden brown.
I have the Jessica Seinfeld book and honestly have made a couple recipes but many are recipes my kids don't care for. I have had better luck with the Rachael Ray Cooking Rocks for recipes that include veggies undisguised yet cooked in stuff they like to eat.

My daughter (7) has always been a good veggie eater so I haven't had to sneak them in, but now that she follows a special diet for autoimmune illnesses, I have had to come up with more interesting ways to prepare the vegetables to give variety since she can't eat pasta, rice, potatoes and a bunch of other foods.

I love the blog Gluten Free SCD & Veggie. Here's one recipe that was really good:

http://glutenfreescdandveggie.blogspot.com/2011/11/butter...

I didn't care for the leeks (too tough the two times I made it) but the cheese sauce came out like a cheesy mashed potato flavor and the butternut squash was delicious. My daughter loved it. Not sure if it would work for all kids but thought I'd mention it.

The only thing with the blog is you have to convert her recipes from the metric system. This site has calculators - http://www.onlineconversion.com/

I have also made a chicken nugget recipe where I've included vegetables. Cook the chicken breast, shred 2 cups and add to a food processor. Add one cup of cooked vegetable (I have used carrots, beans and butternut squash) to the food processor along with a little salt. Process until blended (the recipe said to leave it chunky, but I preferred it blended). Put in a bowl, add three eggs and add some spices (I use cumin and chili powder) and mix together. Spray a frying pan with olive oil and shape the mixture into nugget form. Cook about 6 minutes on each side. I freeze these and pull them out when I don't have time to cook or don't feel like cooking dinner.

Good luck!

The ones I have and use are: the Sneaky Chef books (there are 4 of them out currently) by Missy Chase Lapine, and the 2 out by Jessica Seinfeld (Deceptively Delicious and Double Delicious)-- my husband nor my boys have ever noticed the veggies that are put in! Try amazon or 1/2 Price books to purchase at a discount!

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I tried several of the recipe's from Deceptively Delicious and didn't think they were all that great. My kids did eat the buttered noodles with pureed summer squash mixed in, as well as cauliflour mac & chz...but they completely could tell something was up with their meals and didn't eat much. Overall, I felt it wasn't worth the effort.

I dont have any disguise ideas; however, I present it differently. My girls like most vegetables. My "picky eater" doesn't eat a lot of new dishes, but loves peas, spinach, collard and mustard greens and salads. What I do is tell them they have to have at least 1 vegetable on their plate with their meat and if we have something new, everyone has to at least taste it before they can say they don't like it. How can you dislike something, you've never tasted, I always tell them. It's a lot about how you present it. You do have some interesting ideas that I'll have to explore.

I use Deceptively delicious, by Jessica Seinfeld. Some of her recipes are really good. I see nothing wrong with putting veggies in food like that. It tastes good. However, I also put the veggies that are "hidden" and prepare them like I normally do for a veggie dish. My children are encouraged to try, and for the most part they do. But, I refuse to make meal time a battle. My kids are healthy and do try new foods, there is nothing wrong with sneaking more veggies in too! :)

I have used some of the ideas in Jessica Seinfelds book. My kids do like the cauliflower mashed "potatos" and while we do offer veggies like always, it never hurts to change a meal up to add more healthy punch.
BTW - my kids are often alerted to what I fed them after they exclaim how much they like it, that has actually transferred to them eating the veggies unmasked.