Kid friendly fiber recipes

When I married my late husband, my stepson was 7 years old. He always ate what we ate. Very rarely would he fuss about food.

Do you have to feed your daughter foods separate from what you eat? Has her pediatrician indicated that she needs more fiber?

does she like soup? you can pretty much blend any veggies and kids love it.

What about beans?

For the oatmeal banana pancakes, try replacing half of the flour with whole wheat flour. My son loves the whole wheat, oatmeal, blueberry, zucchini pancakes we make. It still only comes out to 3g of fiber per serving, but that is at least a little higher.

I use milled flax seed. It's the consistency of a powder. I use it in pancakes, scrambled eggs and smoothies. It's not noticeable at all.

I have been making something like "ratatouille on pasta" for my teenager. It is quick (15 minutes?) and full of fiber. Finely chop half a red onion, and start cooking it in a skillet. Dice a medium zucchini and add. Cook until zucchini has started to be tender. While onions and zucchini are cooking, stir dried rosemary, oregano, basil, parsley and pepper to taste (I like a lot of all of these). Add a 14 oz can of diced tomatoes or fire roasted diced tomatoes. Serve over a small helping of penne pasta, or other pasta of your choice. Variations: add some sliced dinner sausage, like chicken apple sausage; add some fresh spinach; add a handful of frozen corn at end and stir in.

All kinds of dishes with beans/legumes would be high fiber and can be very tasty. A few we like:

• Ricotta and Red Lentil Lasagna
• Black Bean Soup
• Mexican Pinto Beans
• Whole Wheat Blueberry Muffins
• Hummus and Baby Carrots
• All kinds of roasted veggies: sweet potatoes, red peppers, Brussels sprouts

This sounds like my daughter! Reaching school age and packing a lunchbox became hell.

So she eats carrots sticks
Grapes
Loves her popcorn also
She eats baked beans a lot and loves some high fibre toast that she uses to soak up the sauce.
She loves scrambled eggs but it took a while to get a good mix and we found not putting cheese in she preferred.
I have to force her to eat bananas as she also doesn’t like fruit so much.
She eats apple if I peel the damn skin off and some days I will to get it into her!
She likes cereal (she has sultana bran and finding the sultanas is like a treasure hunt) haha
She will eat chicken and bacon all day long
And peanut butter anything so we used that to move into satay chicken and rice etc and she is loving that.
She doesn’t like to eat things all together. She will eat the ingredients that go into a quiche veggies etc (she will eat corn and broccoli all day long so I laughed when you mentioned your daughter loves cauliflower!) but she won’t eat it all combined ? So weird! Deconstructed everything! She won’t eat a sandwich with fillings only a spread.
She won’t touch dairy! I think she is lactose intolerant because if I beg her to have yoghurt she dry reaches. She also hates cheese and never been a fan of ice cream.
I am able to sneak some yoghurt in as she is obsessed with smoothies and I put in some flaxseed oil, I make honey, banana and she puts in some peanut butter at times hahaha or berry ones.

I have struggled and I feel your pain. And if she is stubborn like mine, they barely eat so I need to know there is something in her tummy to get through the school day!
She’s a pain for friends parties too because she won’t eat pizza or burgers....
I hope I have shared even one new idea for you to try!
We had constipation issues so she always has probiotic balls too with her chewy vitamins in the morning.

Beans! Chili, Refried beans, White bean blended into soup to thicken it up etc.

I used to get away with a lot by putting it in muffins or cookies. I would keep the sugar low and add higher fiber ingredients. Baby prunes can replace some of the oil. For example, cocoa banana muffins made with at least half whole grain (or all white whole grain) with strained prunes snuck in. Pumpkin raisin muffins also worked. Best to cook when they can't watch, though.

Does she drink enough? Some of us are bad at liquids, so that can lead to constipation.

BTW, your kid doesn't sound more than just a little picky. The really picky ones ( with food phobia) will usually only eat about a dozen total foods. They will also go hungry rather than eat "what I put in front of them". Mine developed an ulcer and became seriously underweight when we tried that on the advice of a pediatrician.

hmhill17 wrote: »

Looking for variety. My daughter needs more.

She will eat whole grain pasta. She eats bananas. I might be able to trick her into eating some mixed into yoghurt. We made oatmeal banana pancakes, but that's only 1g per pancake. I was going to sneak some chia in it, but she caught me. Was thinking I could probably sneak in some ground flax or something else in the next batch.

Other ideas?

There are lots of great ideas here. My advice to you, from a mom with three kids, one of whom TRIED to be a picky eater. DO NOT GIVE UP or GIVE IN! Keep reintroducing rejected foods after short periods of time. Require one bite of each dish served at a meal (with reasonable exceptions--we all hate some foods, and there were about 3-4 that we allowed him to hate and we didn't insist on them). He is now a 21 year-old man who will try and eat almost anything. He gets frustrated with friends and girlfriends who are picky eaters. And...wait for it...strawberries, grapes and tomatoes, all foods on his hate list...he eats them all now! Be patient and persistent, mama!

My daughter is 5 and kinda picky too.

Recently I made savory roasted chickpeas using a parmesan garlic seasoning and she loved them! They turned out slightly crispy so very much like popcorn. High fiber with 2.2g per tablespoon serving.

I also made a black bean butternut squash chili (mild version!) that she really liked. Found the recipe in the MFP blog. Super easy and quick! Top with a couple avocado slices and dollop of sour cream/tofutti sour cream replacement and it was fabulous!!