Thursday, February 14, 2008

Eat Your Vegetables

Yesterday, I was a pureeing fool. I pureed the following:



  • 2 cups of butternut squash
  • 3 cups of carrots
  • 3 cups of cauliflower
  • 2 cups of sweet potatoes
  • 1 cup of beets
  • 1 cup of spinach
  • 1 cup of red bell peppers
I've decided to join the legions of parents who trick their children into eating vegetables by hiding them in kid-friendly foods. Well-meaning deception for the win!

Our first attempt: I assisted the girls in making these delightful muffins this morning:

Peanut butter and jelly muffins (with carrot puree) from Deceptively Delicious. Yum!

I'm excited about this little experiment. I'll let you know how it goes.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have a friend who is all excited about this too. She made some chicken breaded with pureed brocolli the other day and I didn't notice. Of course, I like brocolli. So who knows!

Nanette said...

OOH! Please do! My kids used to love vegetables and the crusts of bread---now they have suddenly abandoned both.

Jules said...

Oooh...you are a sneaky mom! How's the experiment going so far?

Anonymous said...

Were the muffins good? I made the tofu nugget things... they were pretty much a bust--in part because I let Brian cut the tofu and when I turned around the "nuggets" were the size of dice. I'm going to bread them all? I don't think so.
But also they were bright green from the broccoli puree (which was supposed to be "hidden," right?) and the puree and breading had a very difficult time adhering to the tofu.
Time to try the rice balls!
--Jill