Help hiding veggies!

kaseyellengreen
kaseyellengreen Posts: 6 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Prepping food to make things easier and healthier for me and my parents, too bad I have to figure out how to hide vegetables from them like they are children. Anyone have any recipes that have a serving of vegetables in it but you can't tell?

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  • AmazonMayan
    AmazonMayan Posts: 1,168 Member
    There are cookbooks out there for that. I think jerry Seinfelds wife wrote one. I bet you can Google or pinterest for successful veg hiding recipes. There's always v8 too that maybe with some experimenting could be added to tomato based things like pasta and pizza sauces.
  • schibsted750
    schibsted750 Posts: 355 Member
    http://www.incrediblesmoothies.com/
  • Lizzy622
    Lizzy622 Posts: 3,705 Member
    Chili, soups and stews are great places to hide veggies. Eating well has some great recipes on their website.
  • abrothers73
    abrothers73 Posts: 1 Member
    Hidden Veggie pasta. We use that to get *something* healthy in my kid. Spaghetti sauce is a good veggie disguiser (chop them up fine). We tried shredding raw cauliflower into mac and cheese but no dice (it's smelly). The sweet potato pancakes from the Seinfeld book are pretty good.

    I could use more help in this arena too!
  • lyttlewon
    lyttlewon Posts: 1,118 Member
    AmazonMayan wrote: »
    There are cookbooks out there for that. I think jerry Seinfelds wife wrote one. I bet you can Google or pinterest for successful veg hiding recipes. There's always v8 too that maybe with some experimenting could be added to tomato based things like pasta and pizza sauces.

    Deceptively Delicious is her cook book. I have had a handful of them and they are pretty good.
  • canadjineh
    canadjineh Posts: 5,396 Member
    If you either roast your cauliflower with garlic & olive oil, or cook it in water with a big glug of milk added that will change the flavour entirely. Then if you want it is easy to hide in mac&cheese. Thawing fish or shrimp in milky water will also take ANY fishy taste out.
  • OyGeeBiv
    OyGeeBiv Posts: 733 Member
    Put pureed veggies in meatloaf, meatballs or burgers.

    Make soup using V8 (and beef or chicken stock if you want) as a base - add whatever veggies your parents will eat (if any) and some meat (cooked ground beef, leftover chicken or turkey, etc.) and noodles or rice.

    Will they eat zucchini bread or chili, or are they completely anti-veg? What about sweet potato fries?
  • amyk0202
    amyk0202 Posts: 666 Member
    I have the Deceptively Delicious cook book. None of the recipes I tried really worked. My son always noticed the change in flavor & then wouldn't eat. You might get away with it if you are making new foods for them, but you will not be able to sneak veggies into their normal foods.
  • rebbylicious
    rebbylicious Posts: 621 Member
    edited January 2016
    I think it's good practice to get them to eat and enjoy them. Kids need to develop a good relationship with healthy food. And it's easier to start young. As a mother of 4, I don't encourage hiding. Find new fun ways to cook them.
  • azulvioleta6
    azulvioleta6 Posts: 4,195 Member
    rebbylicious wrote: »
    I think it's good practice to get them to eat and enjoy them. Kids need to develop a good relationship with healthy food. And it's easier to start young. As a mother of 4, I don't encourage hiding. Find new fun ways to cook them.

    I agree--but she is talking about grown ups. :)

    You can add spinach or zucchini to so many things--a great nutrition boost, and they rarely change the taste of dishes.

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