Need help with vegan recipes for my kids!

[Guest guest]

Hi Melissa:

 

How about refried beans, you can make your own this way you can control what

goes into them.

My kids love them and have since they were pretty young.

 

Gayle

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Sweet potatoes are good for kids, pickled beets, stuffed tomatoes,

eggplant, asparagus - all sorts of veggies are kid-friendly.

I think the secret is to get your child to help you make the vegetable

dish. If you are going to do the stuffed tomatoes, go through a few

recipes together, then let him help assemble and cook them. Keeping

your child busy in the kitchen does take a bit more time, but I found

that they are much more likely to at least try what they have fixed - Jenny

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Melissa wrote:

 

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> I have one child who really hates vegetables and we are slowly but

> surely making progress with him. BUT, I need some more recipes that

> are VERY kid friendly. We are good with Breakfast and lunch, but I

> need ideas for dinners. I made broccoli stuffed potatoes where the

> broccoli was pureed after being sauteed in garlic and olive oil then

> mashed with the cooked potato and then scooped into the potato shells.

> It worked very well because there weren't any chunks.

>

> Any ideas would be GREAT!

> Thanks,

> Melissa

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[Guest guest]

Hi,

 

my son loves pasta and will eat it with lots of different types of

sauces.. so, i've made pesto from broccoli instead of basil, cream

sauce with soymilk and mashed sweet potatoes, and pureed carrots into

the marinara.

 

Pizza with soy cheese has always been a hit, too.

 

i also put baby carrots, cherry tomatoes and french dressing for

dipping on the table for all dinners.. he almost always eats at least

a couple.

 

Since he became old enough to care what his food " looks " like more

than how it tastes, the only tofu i've been able to get him to eat is

the new marinated ones that look grilled and are cubed, in the

refrigerator section at the market. He thinks they're chicken i

guess ;-) Otherwise, i try to put soymilk in everything i can think

of.

 

Good luck

 

shazadi

[Guest guest]

-Melissa:

 

I just got into the tail end of the replies to your request. I would

like to help you, but i do not know what you really want. So far i

understand your son hates vegetables and you need help with the

dinner meal. Sometime just cutting up small pieces and puttiing what

things he likes. I understand he likes pasta and you can put in cut

up vegetables with that.

 

Are you concerned about the protein or the calcium in the

vegetables?

 

Then, the other thought is, is price another concern?

 

Next question is he willing to try other options that are

vegetarian, yet, there might be a different texture he may not be

used to? (There are a lot of vege options, and I'd share them with

you if i knew the balance. Also, the time and effort you may have

and are willing to spend.

 

Also, i didn't catch what type of vegetarian you are proposing?

 

If you wish, you can e-mail me direct.

 

ginger

 

 

 

 

-- In Veg-Recipes , " Melissa " <melis108> wrote:

>

>

> I have one child who really hates vegetables and we are slowly but

> surely making progress with him. BUT, I need some more recipes

that

> are VERY kid friendly. We are good with Breakfast and lunch, but I

> need ideas for dinners. I made broccoli stuffed potatoes where the

> broccoli was pureed after being sauteed in garlic and olive oil

then

> mashed with the cooked potato and then scooped into the potato

shells.

> It worked very well because there weren't any chunks.

>

> Any ideas would be GREAT!

> Thanks,

> Melissa