1) Veggie Cups
Kids love being able to dip their veggies into their favorite dip. Presenting veggies in a cup with the dip at the bottom is a fun way for them to get their veggies in.
2) Little Helpers
Invite your kids into the kitchen to help prepare foods. Once they see their masterpieces, they will be more than happy to eat them.
3) Zucchini Infused Pasta
This is a great way to sneak some high nutrient veggies into their pasta dish. Kids will love this colorful addition to their dinner plates.
4) Sloppy Joes
What kid doesn’t like sloppy joes. Mom’s can sneak extra veggies into the mixture and the kids won’t even know.
5) Mac N Cheese
Blend some sweet potatoes into your mac n cheese sauce. Kids won’t even notice the difference.
6) Black Bean Brownies
By simply adding some black beans to your brownie mix, you are providing your kids with a high protein sweet dessert or snack.
7) Zucchini Fries
Fries and kids go hand in hand. Serve up these delicious zucchini fries with a yummy dip and you will be pleasantly surprised how your kids devour them.
8) Cauliflower Rice
Make your favorite rice dish using cauliflower rice. Kids are eating cauliflower without realizing it.
9) Flavored Broccoli
Sprinkle your kid’s favorite seasonings and cheeses on broccoli. This creates a flavor they will love.
10) Veggie Fries and Tots
Create veggie tots using a combination of vegetables. Serve with sweet potato and zucchini fries.
11) Mixed Vegetable Rice
Frozen bags of vegetable-focused rice can be purchased from your local grocery store. Add some chicken or beef and the kids are eating more vegetables than they know.
12) Veggie_Pizza
Homemade veggie pizza will be a big hit with the kids. All kids love pizza, and this is a way to get them eating healthier.
13) Fill Your Own Potato Skins
Before popping potato skins in the oven, have your kids fill them with their favorite healthy toppings.
14) Grilled Cheese Skewers
Make a homemade tomato soup and top with mini grilled cheese skewers. The kids will be fascinated by this presentation.
15) Hummus
A hummus dip is great for getting your kids to dip celery and carrot sticks in. Add some pita triangles to the mix for a great variety.
16) Cauliflower Wings
Make wings replacing the chicken with cauliflower. The kids will be asking for more.
17) Spinach Tortellini Skewers
This is a fun way to get kids to eat spinach. The tomato, cheese and pasta skewers are filled with lots of vitamins.
18) Veggie Stuffed Peppers
Create a unique blend of quinoa and veggies to stuff red peppers for a delicious meal the kids will love. A great way to get many veggies and protein into the kid’s diet.
19) Ice Cream Made With Spinach
Make this almond flavored spinach ice cream and kids will think they died and went to heaven. The bright color will keep kids coming back for more.
20) Juicing
Allow your kids to use your juicer to make delicious smoothies. Adding yogurt with veggies makes for a delicious beverage for the kids.
21) Vegetable Lasagna
Make a vegetable-filled lasagna for a family meal. A great way to pack this popular dish with veggies the kids will love.
22) Kids In The Garden
Allow kids to help grow veggies in the garden. They will be more inclined to eat something they have grown and picked.
23) Grocery Shopping
Make grocery shopping a fun family event. Let the kids pick out some of their favorite veggies.
24) Nachos
Nachos is a great way to incorporate vegetables into your kid’s diet. Top them with fun small sized veggies and they will dive right in.
25) Soup
An appetizing sweet potato soup will warm your kid’s bellies on a cold winter day.Place fun shaped crackers on top of the soup before serving to create the wow factor for the kids.
26) Stir Fry
Make a colourful veggie stir-fry. When kids see that something looks colourful and inviting, they are more apt to eat it.
27) Taco Night
Have a taco night with the kids. Let them build their own tacos with veggies to enjoy.
28) Sheet Tray Night
Food presentation can make all the difference in the world for kids. Display healthy veggies and other foods on a tray and let them eat away.
29) Stew
Homemade stew is probably the easiest way to get kids to eat a variety of vegetables at one time. Serve with warm cheesy buns they can dunk into the delicious gravy.
30) Kid Themed Sandwich Makers
Kids love being in the kitchen, especially when they have their own appliances. Mom can put out the healthy veggies to include in a sandwich that the kids make on their own.
31) Youtube
When your kids are watching Youtube, sit with them and put on a healthy eating video. This may inspire them to eat more veggies.
32) Kids Books
Buy your kids some books to read revolving around healthy eating. Sophie’s Squash is a great story to make little girls want to eat squash.
33) Food Game Videos
Play some food games with funny food videos with your kids. They will learn how to relate to vegetables much quicker.
34) Play Food
Buy some play food for your younger children so they can identify vegetables. When you are feeding them vegetables you can show them their toy ones.
35) Toy Kitchen
Toddlers love to pretend to do things their parents do. Pretending to make meals with their little kitchen can inspire them to eat real vegetables.
36) Flashcards
Bring flashcards to the table when the kids are eating and show them pictures of the veggies they are eating. They will remember from playing with the flashcards, it can be a game.
37) Weekly Food Planner
Having kids join in to plan the meals for the week has a duel purpose. It makes them feel a part of the process, and they also know what te expect at meal time. They will eat the veggies you have all planned together.
38) Create A Menu
Lets the kids create a menu for tonight’s dinner. You lay out the guidelines that include vegetables and let them do it.
39) Board Games
Play food-themed board games with your kids. When you combine fun and nutrition it can be very beneficial.
40) Clothing
Clothing with words or pictures of food on them can be an inspiration for kids to eat healthily. You can pretty much buy all items of clothing with these types of pictures on them.
41) Picnics
Packing fresh veggies and dip for a picnic is a sure way to make sure the kids are getting their veggies. When they are outdoors playing they really build an appetite.
42) Favorite TV Show
Compare them to a character on their favorite tv show. For example, Caillou eats all his vegetables.
43) Add Honey
When making vegetables, adding a natural sweetener like honey can make vegetables more appealing to kids. Honey glazed carrots are always a big hit.
44) Cut-Outs
Use sandwich cutters to cut out kid’s sandwich shapes. Make hearts, trucks, animals, whatever intrigues your little one to eat their veggies.
45) Funny Faces
Make open-faced sandwiches and use vegetables to create funny faces. Kids will love it.
46) Kids Cookbooks
Capture the interests of your child by giving them their very own cookbook. A great way to get them hands-on in the kitchen. They are sure to find some yummy vegetable recipes.
47) Puzzle Food
Make puzzles using real food. Your kids can put the food pieces together to complete the puzzle. Then they can eat the puzzle.
48) Veggie Straws
Give your kids veggie straws as a snack. They will have no idea they are actually eating vegetables.
49) Vegetable Juice
Providing your kids with a low-sodium vegetable juice provides a high source of vitamins. Low-Sodium V8 juice is a great choice.
50) Spiralizer
A spiralizer is a multi-purpose small appliance that has several attachments to make vegetables fun to eat. Spiralize veggies or even make veggie pasta that the kids will love.
51) Chicken Pot Pie
Kids love chicken pot pie. Add a few extra vegetables when you make your own, the kids won’t know the difference.
52) Bribery
If all else fails, promise your kids they will get a treat if they eat all their veggies. Quite often this tactic works.
53) Veggie Animals
Show your kids how to make veggie animals. It will make vegetables more desirable.
54) Veggie People
A fun way to get kids to eat vegetables is to make veggie people. They can create the whole family and then have fun eating them.
55) Set The Example
When kids grow up watching their parents eat vegetables, they tend to follow the same pattern. Always have several different vegetables to choose from as they will be sure to like one or two.
56) Big And Strong
For some reason kids can’t wait to get bigger. When you tell them if they eat their veggies they will get big and strong, watch how much they eat.
57) Checkers
Use cucumber or carrot medallions as checkers, when you jump one another you eat the “checker”. You can lose on purpose.
58) Raw Veggies
Most kids prefer eating raw vegetables over cooked ones. Make a platter of cheese, grapes and raw veggies cut in sticks and cubes.
59) Praise
Kids always like to hear positive gestures. When your kids eat all their vegetables, make a big deal about it and tell them how proud you are that they ate all their vegetables.
60) Cheese Sauce
A great way to get your kids to eat broccoli and cauliflower is to cover it with cheese sauce. Masking the taste of the veggies will be a big hit with the kids.
61) Casseroles
Create a casserole using some of your kid’s favorite foods and add some vegetables to it. A quick and easy way to get them to eat veggies.
62) Homemade Lunchables
Kids love Lunchables. Let your kids help you make their own Lunchables. You can add a little dessert to it and tell them when they eat everything else they can have the dessert.
63) Snackables
Using crackers and vegetables, have the kids create their own animal crackers. A fun way to get the kids eating their veggies.
64) Young Age
When you start right from a very young age feeding your kids vegetables, they become accustomed to eating them. Always incorporate vegetables into as many meals as you can.
65) Superheroes
Tell your kids their favorite superheroes eats lots of vegetables. This may entice them to eat more veggies.
66) Vegetable Kabobs
Let your kids create their own vegetable kabobs. Involve them in cooking them as well. They will see this as their very own creation.
67) Kids Veggie Soup
Noodles and more noodles. Kids love pasta, making a kid-friendly soup with lots of veggies and pasta should do the job.
68) Persistence
Keep adding vegetables to meals. If it’s a new vegetable tell them they have to at least taste it. It’s a start.
69) Cauliflower Pizza Crust
Make a pizza using a cauliflower pizza crust. Kids will never know the difference.
70) Spaghetti Squash
Kids won’t even know they are eating squash. Spaghetti squash is the most nutritional way to eat “pasta”.
71) Fondue
Have a fondue night. Kids will love cooking their own bite-sized veggies.
72) Farm
Experience a family outing to your local farm. Let the kids experience first hand the growing process of vegetables.
73) Nutrition
Educate your kids on the nutritional value of different vegetables. Knowledge is power.
74) Mashed Veggies
Change the appearance of vegetables by mashing them. Mashed cauliflower looks like mashed potatoes.
75) Vegetable Chips
Make your own vegetable chips. Add a ranch or onion chip dip. Kids will think they are eating a novelty.
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