Sneaky Sneaky

I'll be honest. I don't like vegetables. I have NEVER likes vegetables. Growing up, the only vegetables you could get me to eat were carrots, celery, potatoes and iceberg lettuce. 

No corn. 

No broccoli. 

No tomatoes. 

No cauliflower. 

No squash.

No zucinni.

No peas.

No green beans.

No peppers. 

No Joke. 

I have branched out a little as I've gotten older, but I emphasize the word LITTLE. I will now eat cucumbers, but I had to force myself to eat them every day for a really long time before I actually started liking them. I will eat corn, tomatoes and peppers now, but they have to be cut up really small and mixed in with a lot of other things so I don't feel the texture. I love salad, so I have branched out to romaine and spinach instead of iceberg.

I know... it is a little ridiculous. I don't enjoy being this picky with vegetables. I WISH I could love veggies because I know how good they are for me. However, regardless of my age, I still literally gag when I try to eat certain types.

  

Now, this might be an issue for you and it might not be. However, it is very possible that you have children that react to vegetable an awful lot like I do. I am hoping that my children don't inherit my distaste for healthy greens,  but I am sure that at some point I am going to have to be very creative to help them eat healthy vegetables to get the proper nourishment and nutrition that they need. So between my own distaste for veggies and the distaste that my children might likely have for them in the future, I figured we'd start working out fun ways to sneak vegetables into a meal without compromising taste. 

Here is our newest successful attempt!

We threw some spinach into the blender with a little water and poured it into our waffle batter. It was delicious and we got a full 1-2 servings of spinach each. You could barely taste it and it felt so great knowing that I was getting some of my vegetable servings for the day.

We will definitely do this again. On St. Patrick's Day it will be a MUST.

While this is just one example, there are endless other ways you could sneak veggies in. The key is cutting them up very small so little children don't recognize them. One of our favorite meals is Lettuce Wraps. I LOVE them. When we were at my sister-in-laws house, she made them only she added in some squash cut up really tiny. Remember how I don't like squash? Well, I had no idea there was squash in her recipe and I ate them up with vigor. So will your kids. Just think sneaky.

Good luck!