5 Ways to Sneak in Veggies
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Tropicana Farmstand for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine.
Do you have picky kids that turn up their nose to veggies? Here are 5 ways to sneak in veggies! Since they won’t look how the vegetables are traditionally served, you may be able to get them to touch their veggies without even realizing it.
5 Ways to Sneak in Veggies!
Puree Them – You can cook and puree any vegetable you’d like just like you would for making homemade baby food. Once it’s pureed, just mix in those veggies with whatever you are already making. You can freeze the excess in an ice cube tray to add them to your future recipes easily. Try adding them in to bread mixes, spaghetti sauce, or make a sauce to top grilled chicken. The options are endless.
Make a Green Smoothie – You would be surprised that adding in something like spinach or kale won’t make a huge difference to the taste of a sweet green smoothie recipe, but it will make a big impact on your family’s health!
Make Veggies Fun – Presentation can go a long way towards getting your children to try a new vegetable. Dice them up and arrange them in unique ways to make them perfectly bite sized and not life threatening. There are lots of bento ideas to add in vegetables to make them look more fun than any other part of the meal.
Keep on Trying – They say it takes several tries for us to acquire a new taste. Don’t get frustrated if your kids refuse broccoli the first few times you try. Instead, stick with it offering vegetables with your meals in different ways with new veggies to keep mealtime interesting. There will inevitably be some vegetables your child simply doesn’t like – and that’s okay! But don’t be afraid to keep trying new ones until you find one they’ll happily gobble down!
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I would like to try the Pomegranate Blueberry, thanks!
I want to try Strawberry Banana!
I think the Pomegranate Blueberry sounds the best! Yum!
I’d Like To Try The Apple Blend Flavor Also.
orange pinapple
I’d also love to try the orange pineapple flavor.
I’d like to try the strawberry banana. Thank you for the chance 🙂
the orange pineapple sounds really good
I’d love to try the strawberry banana, it looks delicious.
Peach Mango would be my choice.
Would love to try the strawberry banana
I would like to try the strawberry banana the most, although all the combos sound good.
I would love to try the orange pineapple
I would love to try the Orange Pineapple.
I’d like to try the Strawberry Banana!
I’d roll with the Apple Blend!
I’d love to try the Tropical Green flavor. I sneak veggies into smoothies and tomato sauce
I want to try the Pomegranate Blueberry
I like to try the pomegranate blueberry
I think I’d like to try the Strawberry Banana first and then the Orange Pineapple flavor. 🙂
we just bought this juice and I have to admit it was very tasty. Your lunch idea under the sea is way too cute.
I am always trying to find new ways to sneak veggies in my kids’ meals! Thanks for sharing!
This is a great way to get veggies into the the kids diets! It can be hard to get veggie in their meals.
Great tips! Why didn’t I think of pureeing them to add to meals sneakily? Better idea than trying to bribe my husband with fish scenes. #LOL My daughter LOVES veggies! I’d love to try the Apple Blend, too – looks yummy.
I’m always sneaking veggies into my kids drinks and food. Luckily they haven’t found out yet. I’ll definitely have to pick up some of this the next time I’m out shopping.
I like to sneak veggies in any way I can! Green smoothies, yum! I need to do that more often.
Drinks and smoothies are the only way I can get any kind of vegetable or fruit in my son’s mouth. I’m content with that for now but hope he starts trying more of them in their natural state as he gets a little older.
I love Tropicana drinks! They are a great way to sneak in veggies throughout the day!
These are great tips! I love making smoothies for my kids.
I have not mastered the hiding the veggies. Smoothies are a great way for breakfast though.
What great tips and tricks. I haven’t seen that at the grocer yet but will be sure to pick some up when I do
These are great ideas! I try not to sneak… but if I have to, we always go the smoothie route!
Awesome ideas! They look yummy, and would work well for my kids. All of them are meals they love.
My kids love to eat veggies when they are disguised! Drinks, baked goods and more are easier for them than raw veggies.
Thanks for this great giveaway! I really lucked out. My son has never been overly picky, so I’ve never had to sneak anything good for him. He always just ate it. Yay!
This is fantastic. I love sneaking in veggies whenever I can.
Mostly the only thing I can do is hide them in foods. They have to be pureed. The kids can tell with texture. And they can tell by color a lot of times too so I have to be VERY sneaky with Veggies. We do a lot of juices that have veggies mixed in.
I have to do things like put spinach in smoothies or make stuffed peppers to get my man-child husband to eat any sort of veggie.
I like to sneak in veggies whenever I can, my kids are so picky when it comes to veggies! I’m all for the drinks and smoothies too – YUM!
i would try orange pineapple!
These juices sound fantastic! I love sneaking veggies into smoothies!
Thanks for the tips. My 19 month old grandson has become extremely picky in what he will eat (which isn’t much) so having sneaky ways of adding nutrients is a huge help.
I sneak them in whenever I can. I am the master of sneaking them into pasta sauce and things like quesadillas.
Definitely strawberry banana