Hiding vegetables in food

Quoted message said:

"CPSchwarz"

I'm trying to locate some recipes or a cook book that deals
with hiding vegetables. I have two boys who absolutely
refuse to eat any type of vegetable.

They need no vegetables, they ARE vegetables.... obviously
you being the parent of those two losers are a zuchinni...
have you no shame.

I would stonngly suggest force feeding your losers
harvard beets.

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[email hidden] wrote on 6/5/04 9:42 PM:

Quoted message said:

I'm trying to locate some recipes or a cook book that
deals with hiding vegetables. I have two boys who
absolutely refuse to eat any type of vegetable with the
exception of potatoes. If anyone has any suggestions or
knows of a cook book it would be greatly appreciated.

Chris

Chris, I've gone through this stage with two children and
four grandchildren. If you successfully hide the vegetables,
and then say, "See how good they were, see how you liked
those vegetables," they will never trust you at table again.
Patience is the best way to handle this, though it may make
you a bit frantic at times. Kids grow up and get taller and
stronger on the strangest self-chosen diets you can imagine.
Oh, and don't forget the one-a-days. Larry

CPSchwarz said:

I'm trying to locate some recipes or a cook book that
deals with hiding vegetables. I have two boys who
absolutely refuse to eat any type of vegetable with the
exception of potatoes. If anyone has any suggestions or
knows of a cook book it would be greatly appreciated.

One way to do this is to make a sauce with a vegetable base.
Simmer your veg of choice in some chicken stock till soft,
then run it through a blender to make a puree. Mix it with
shredded pork or chicken and stuff some tacos with it.

--
Reg email: RegForte (at) (that free MS email service) (dot)
com

CPSchwarz said:

I'm trying to locate some recipes or a cook book that
deals with hiding vegetables. I have two boys who
absolutely refuse to eat any type of vegetable with the
exception of potatoes. If anyone has any suggestions or
knows of a cook book it would be greatly appreciated.

Maybe they would find the vegetables more acceptable as
juice. You'll lose a lot of the fiber, but you'll get most
of the nutrient value. If you get serious about juicing,
you'll want to get a Champion juicer. They're the best!
Retail they're $300, discount $240, used on eBay about $100.

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Chocolate Zucchini Loaf, Weight Watchers Prune Bread
(tastes really good! Much better than the name implies),
Carrot Cake,
U.P. Pasties, Quiche, Colcannon, Fried Green Tomatoes,
Tomato Pie, ummm, do these help? Recipes to follow:
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Chocolate Zucchini Loaf

3 c Flour
1/4 c Cocoa 1 TBSP Cinnamon
2/2 tsp Baking Powder 1 tsp Baking Soda 1 tsp Salt 2 c
Sugar 3 Eggs
3/2 c Oil 2 tsp Vanilla Extract 1 Banana 2 c grated Zucchini
1 c chopped Nuts 1 c Semi-sweet Chocolate chips or chunks

Heat oven to 350. Grease two 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 pans. In large
bowl, combine Flour, cocoa, cinnamon, Baking POWDER & SODA,
& Salt. Mix well and set aside. In medium bowl, combine
Sugar & Eggs; beat well. Add Oil, vanilla & Banana; beat
until combined. Stir in Zucchini and add FLOUR Mixture.
Stir until just moistened. Stir in Nuts & Chocolate Pour
into pans & bake 55-60 min. Cool in Pans for 10 min. Then
finish on racks.

After a post from the Ranger (a.c.c.) we're thinking
about doing an Apple Bread - ideas are to: + apples, -
zucch., - chocolate & cocoa, + allspice &/or cloves, and
+ cream cheese.

U.Q. Prune Bread (w/my edited version of Tropical Cake)

12 chopped prunes ( or 3/4 c chopped Dates) 3 oz oatmeal
flour 4 TBS flour 1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda 4 TBS fake brown sugar ( or 1/4 c
Brown Sugar) 1 1/3 c non-fat milk powder 1 1/3 c water 4
tsp cinnamon
2/2 tsp Black walnut extract
(3/4 c Coconut)

Chop prunes in the water. Mix together. Bake in a sprayed
pan @ 350 for about 15 minutes.

1 milk / 1 fruit / 1 bread / 3 extras- original recipe

Carrot Cake

2 cups flour 2 cups sugar 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp baking
soda 1 tsp salt 1 tsp cinnamon 3 cups finely shredded
carrots 1 cup oil 4 eggs Cream Cheese Frosting

Combine all ingredients in order given, using wooden spoon.
Bake in greased and floured 9x13-inch pan at 325 F for 50-60
minutes (for two 9" layers, bake for 40 minutes) or until
cake springs back when lightly touched. Cool on a rack(s)
and then frost with Cream Cheese Frosting.

Cream Cheese Frosting

3 oz cream cheese
4/4 cup butter 1 tsp vanilla

Chopped nuts to sprinkle over top of cake

Mix together and frost over cooled cake.

Upper Peninsula Pasties

2 c Crisco 2 c boiling Water

Melt shortening in water. Stir until mostly melted.

Add 5 1/2 - 6 c Flour 2 tsp Salt

Mix to form a very soft dough. Cover and chill until rest of
recipe is accomplished.
NOTE: You will need to make 2 batches of this unless you
make
1/2 of the filling.

FILLING:

12 large Potatoes (about 6 #) 4 med Rutabagas (or 1 large),
grated 2 med Onions 2 # ground Beef 2 # ground Pork (best if
NOT sausage) 1 TBSP Salt 2 tsp Pepper 2 tsp Garlic Powder
Grated Carrots
2/4 c Butter

Mix w/ hands to blend. Divide the dough into 12 -15 pieces.
Roll out each piece into a circle. Place 1 1/2 -2 c of
filling on half of circle and a pat of butter. Fold dough
over and seal edges. Place on cookie sheet. Cut slits in
top to allow steam to escape. Bake at 350 for 1 hour or
until brown.

Manly Man Quiche

1 cup roughly diced ham 1 cup chopped onion
3/2 cup diced mushroom 1 grated zucchini, skin on.
Squeeze out liquid in paper towels, or use another
favorite vegetable

1 unbaked 9-10 inch pastry shell (I pre-bake shell about
5min.) 3 cups shredded white cheddar, jack, Swiss or combo 3
eggs, slightly beaten, I have been known to use 4 1 cup milk
4/2 tsp salt
5/8 tsp pepper
6/4 tsp nutmeg

Heat the diced ham in large skillet with a bit of butter.

Add onion, shrooms and zucchini, cook till onion is soft.

Turn contents of skillet into the pastry shell using at
least a 9 inch pie plate.

Sprinkle w/cheese. Pour a mixture of eggs, milk, s&p and
nutmeg over cheese.

Bake at 350 30-35 minutes or until very lightly
browned and set.

Spinach & Feta Quiche

1 small white onion, chopped 3 Tbsp. oil 1 pkg. frozen
chopped spinach 1 tsp. salt 1 tsp. dill weed 4-5 oz. Feta
cheese, crumbled 4 oz. cottage cheese (I used lowfat) 3
large eggs, beaten 1 c. half and half 1 (9-inch) deep
dish pie shell

Thaw spinach and press in collander to drain moisture *very*
well. Chop onion and saute in the oil about 5 minutes. Add
spinach and continue cooking, stirring often until all
liquid is gone. Transfer to a mixing bowl and add remaining
ingredients. Pour into unbaked pie crust and bake at 375
degrees for 30 to 35 minutes or until knife inserted into
center comes out clean.

Colcannon

3-4 med. potatoes, peeled and cut in quarters 2 T milk or
light cream
7/4 t salt
8/8 t pepper 2 c chopped cabbage 2 T butter or margarine
9/4 c chopped onions 2 T butter (for frying) Crumbled Bacon

Cook potatoes in boiling water till tender; drain,
reserving water.

Place in a large bowl. Mash with hand masher till well-
mashed. (I find the electric mixer makes it too gooey).
Add milk, salt and pepper and beat till fluffy. In the
same saucepan as potatoes were cooked in, cook cabbage
in reserved potato water for 6 to 8 minutes, until
tender. Drain.

Meanwhile, melt 2 tbsp. butter in frying pan and saute onion
until tender. Add mashed potato and cooked cabbage to the
onion. Heat throughly, stirring constantly. Place in a
heated serving dish. Serve hot, topped with butter.

Note: Bacon added just before serving is nice, too.

Fried Green Tomatoes

4 - 6 firm green tomatoes 2 cups flour 2 cups corn meal 2
eggs 2 cups milk Salt, Black Pepper and Cayenne Pepper
vegetable oil for frying

Heat 1 inch of oil in a frying pan to 350 f. Beat eggs into
milk. Slice tomatoes 1/4 - 3/8 inch thick. Mix four,
cornmeal and seasonings together and then dredge tomatoes
into the dry mixture. Gently tap off excess then dip into
egg-milk and back into the dry mixture. Fry until edges
begin to brown slightly and/or both sides are turning
golden in color.

Tomato Pie

Cornmeal Pie Shell* 6-8 med. tomatoes
1/4 c mayonnaise (Miracle Whip Light!!)
2/4 c sour cream (or plain yogurt) 1 clove minced garlic
Salt & Pepper 2 TBSP butter
3/2 c chopped green onions (top & bottoms)
4/2 c soft (fresh) bread crumbs
5/4 c chopped parsley
6/4 c Parmesan Cheese

Prepare and partially bake pie shell.

Slice tomatoes 1/2" thick and layer in pie shell. Combine
mayo, sour cream & garlic. Spread over tomatoes. Sprinkle
with salt & pepper.

Melt butter and saute green onions for a few minutes. Stir
in bread crumbs, parsley, & cheese. Sprinkle over tomatoes.

Bake at 350 F. for 30 minutes. Let rest at least 10 minutes
before cutting and serving.

*****
CORNMEAL PIE SHELL

Combine 3/4 cup plus 2 TBSP flour and 2 TBSP yellow
cornmeal.

Remove and discard 2 heaping TBSP of the flour/cornmeal mix.

Add 2 TBSP cold water to mix (more if necessary) and cut-in
6 TBSP butter.

Mix all together and roll into a 10" circle. Fit into 9" pie
pan. Trim/shape pie shell edges.

Bake at 450 F. for 5 minutes.

Edited version from a My Great Recipes recipe.

Invent Your Own Casserole Yield: 6 servings

------------CHOOSE ONE SAUCE MAKER-------------- 10 1/2 oz
cream of mushroom soup 10 1/2 oz cream of celery soup 10 1/2
oz cream of chicken soup 29 oz Italian style diced tomatoes

-----------CHOOSE ONE FROZEN VEGETABLE------- 10 oz spinach,
frozen 10 oz broccoli, frozen 10 oz English peas, frozen 16
oz yellow squash, frozen 10 oz corn, frozen

--------------CHOOSE ONE PASTA/RICE-------- 2 c elbow
macaroni, uncooked 1 c rice, uncooked 4 c egg noodles,
uncooked 3 c shells, uncooked

----------CHOOSE ONE MEAT/FISH/POULTRY-------- 12 oz tuna,
drained & flaked 2 c chicken, cooked & chopped 2 c ham,
cooked & chopped 2 c turkey, cooked & chopped 1 lb ground
beef, brown & drain

------------CHOOSE ONE OR MORE EXTRAS----------- 3 oz
mushrooms, drained
7/4 c black olives, drained
8/4 c bell pepper, chopped
9/4 c onion, minced
10/2 c celery, chopped 2 garlic cloves 4 1/2 oz green
chilies, chopped 1 pk taco seasoning mix

-----------CHOOSE ONE OR TWO TOPPINGS----------
11/2 c mozzarella, shredded
12/2 c parmesan, grated
13/2 c Swiss, shredded
14/2 c bread crumbs, dry

Preheat oven to 350F.

Combine 1 cup sour cream, 1 cup milk, 1 cup water, 1
teaspoon salt and 1 teaspoon pepper with Sauce Maker. Omit
sour cream and milk when using tomatoes.

Stir in frozen vegetable, pasta/rice, meat/fish/poultry and
if desired, extras. Spoon into a lightly greased 13 X 9
baking dish. Sprinkle with toppings.

Bake casserole, covered for 70 minutes, uncover and bake 10
minutes more.

Source: St. Michael's Catholic Church, Gainesville, GA via
Southern Living, 11/96

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CPSchwarz said:

I'm trying to locate some recipes or a cook book that
deals with hiding vegetables. I have two boys who
absolutely refuse to eat any type of vegetable with the
exception of potatoes. If anyone has any suggestions or
knows of a cook book it would be greatly appreciated.

Chris

Meatloaf and pureed type cream soups.

Don't force them! It's not worth it...

Cassaroles with the veggies minced fine and mixed with the
ground meat also work well.

Mom and dad used these on me. ;-)

Since they did not force them on me, (with a single
exception) I've since learned to appreciate and love
fresh steamed veggies on my own as an adult, but still
detest beets due to one incident where dad DID try to
force them on me!

K. (current age, 42)

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(CPSchwarz) Wrote: I'm trying to locate some recipes or a
cook book that deals with hiding vegetables. I have two boys
who absolutely refuse to eat any type of vegetable with the
exception of potatoes. If anyone has any suggestions or
knows of a cook book it would be greatly appreciated. Chris
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--- Tell your kids they have 2 options.
1.-If they don't eat whats on the plate they won't have one
bite of food till that plate is clean. I don't care if it
sits there for days.
2. Belt

Enlist the help of a neighbors kids who do eat vegies.... I
made some spinich (sp) pies that the kids wouldn't eat....
the neighbor told the kids they were great and mine ended up
eating the pies. How about vegatable samosas?

Sometimes vegies are better raw, peas come to mind... and
carrots are nice if they have a little dip on them. Do they
eat fresh fruit?

take care Liz

CPSchwarz said:

I'm trying to locate some recipes or a cook book that deals
with hiding vegetables. I have two boys who absolutely
refuse to eat any type of vegetable with the exception of
potatoes. If anyone has any suggestions or knows of a cook
book it would be greatly appreciated.

Chris

There was a thread about this in alt.support.attn-deficit.

One tactic which has been used is that a child must take one
spoonful (swallowed) of a "yucky" food. He or she doesn't
need any more.

And try alternatives. The kid who hates spinach might love
Swiss Chard. He or she needs good food, not necessarily one
food in particular.

E. P.

On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 20:42:21 -0500, "CPSchwarz" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

I'm trying to locate some recipes or a cook book that deals
with hiding vegetables. I have two boys who absolutely
refuse to eat any type of vegetable with the exception of
potatoes.

Just keep serving 'regular' veg without comment or urging.
Keep a list. If peas remain uneaten, the next time you
have peas, leave a blank area on their plates. They won't
eat salad? Don't give them any -- just serve yourself.
Give them normal portions of everything else. Don't
substitute anything for the veg or serve larger portions.
Don't craft *your* cooking to fit *their* little fancies.
Everyone's entitled to despise a few food items, but "I
won't eat vegetables" isn't a reasonable position. Don't
make it into a power struggle, which is what most food-
fights are actually about. Either parents enforcing their
wills, or kids making parents dance around trying to
satisfy their whims.

That being said, many kids like raw, unadorned 'finger food'
veg -- "baby" carrots, celery sticks, cherry tomatoes --
that sort of thing, which are fairly easy to keep on hand.

CPSchwarz said:

I'm trying to locate some recipes or a cook book that
deals with hiding vegetables. I have two boys who
absolutely refuse to eat any type of vegetable with the
exception of potatoes. If anyone has any suggestions or
knows of a cook book it would be greatly appreciated.

The blender is your friend. Vegetables can be pureed and
hidden in soup. Turnips can replace half the potatoes in
scalloped potatoes.

For the most part, though, I prefer the opposite approach. I
was picky like your children and remember the food wars of
my childhood. When I said I didn't like a food, my parents
argued logic with me and did a lot of talking about how I
didn't know I didn't like it until I tried it. All I heard
was that they wanted me to swallow something unknown and
yucky. I didn't know where my disgust came from, but it was
extreme. It put me in a lot of embarrassing situations that
continued until I was in my 20s. Eating with other people
was a source of anxiety as others paid all this attention to
what I was eating when I just wanted them to leave me alone.
Here's what I wish my parents had done.

Spend no family grocery money on junk. None. No chips or
candy or ice cream or sugary breakfast cereals in the house
at all. Do have flour and sugar so you can make homemade
baked goods on occasion with the kids. Prepare healthful
nutritious meals consisting of meats, poultry, fish, grains,
beans, milk, cheese, vegetables, fruit and juice. Serve a
variety at each meal. Don't insist that they eat anything
they're reluctant to eat. If your children eat the lasagne
and skip the salad, they won't go hungry. If they skip both
the salad and the lasagne, they can still eat the French
bread and won't starve. If they get some junk when out or at
friends' homes, don't worry about it. It isn't like they're
living on it.

Take the emotion out of eating. Do insist that your children
have the good manners to say no thank-you when refusing
food. Then forget that they've refused it and offer the same
food again at some later date when you feel like serving it.
If they ask, explain that it is normal for people's tastes
to change as they grow older. They don't play with the same
toys or like the same books as they did a few years ago.
Some tastes change; some tastes stay the same. It is the
same with food. Some foods they'll always like. Some foods
they might not like now and want to try later. If you set it
up like a battle, you force them to make a big scene and
complain and make gagging noises. How can they be expected
to change their minds after all that? You don't leave them a
graceful way out.

Don't turn being picky into your children's identifying
characteristic. Pay it as little attention as possible. I
knew a man who introduced his middle daughter as the one who
won't eat fruits or vegetables. He thought it was amusing
and thought he was being kind because he didn't force her. I
looked at it from her point of view and thought: This is the
one thing that sets her apart from her older and younger
sisters. How's she ever going to change when she has nothing
else? She's not the artistic one or the one who's good at
math or the one with the sense of humor. No, she's the one
who doesn't eat. When you're 10, distinguishing
characteristics are important. This isn't conscious, but it
is defining nonetheless.

As for actual cooking (that was your original question way
back when), I recommend NOT hiding the vegetables but make
them as plain as possible. I know that I wouldn't want to
try some mystery food but might be willing to try something
if I knew exactly what it was. Being cautious and making
decisions based on information is actually a good policy in
life. You should applaud it in your children. (Imagine a
drug dealer explaining that he won't tell your children what
something is but he wants them to try it anyway. Wouldn't
you want them to get all the information they could before
taking the plunge? The same is true for

relationship. Be cautious; get information; THEN try
something new.)

Serve vegetables relatively plain. Involve the kids in
learning to cook. If they're willing to eat something only
if it has ketchup or salad dressing on it, put the ketchup
or salad dressing on the table. Give each child one night a
week when they're in charge of choosing the menu and
learning to prepare it. Explain that they must cook a
balanced meal even if they don't choose to eat it. One child
might choose burgers, baked potaotes and carrot sticks. Take
the kid to the grocery store and show him how to look at the
label on the package of hamburger, figure out how much is
needed for the family and so on. That night the child
prepares dinner with you, sets the table and helps clean up.
All this is age appropriate so a younger child might only
have to watch, and an older child might be serving the whole
dinner. Make food preparation, clean-up, and choice of what
to eat go together in a package (just like real life).

If you do find a vegetable that the kids like or object to
less strenuously than others (carrot sticks, corn on the
cob, cole slaw), serve it fairly often. It won't hurt any
of you to eat corn on the cob 3 times a week (when it is
so inexpensive and in season). If there's something you
like, let it show up fairly often too. All this will serve
to demystify vegetables. When they're familiar, they won't
be so scary.

And now, a question: What are the vegetables that you and
your spouse love to eat and eat all the time that your
children won't touch? Would you list them? How do you
prepare them? I used to work with in health food. People
were always asking me about how to get the kids to eat
vegetables, and I'd always ask what the adults like to
eat. Your answer to that question will help me learn what
to suggest.

--Lia

On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 20:42:21 -0500, "CPSchwarz" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

I'm trying to locate some recipes or a cook book that deals
with hiding vegetables. I have two boys who absolutely
refuse to eat any type of vegetable with the exception of
potatoes. If anyone has any suggestions or knows of a cook
book it would be greatly appreciated.

Chris

Chris:

With all of my kids we have had a negotiation process. They
decided which vegetables that they would willingly eat by
helping us select and cook them. Once we had each child (we
have 7) pick a vegetable then they were the spokesperson for
that vegetable and convinced the others to try it.

No hiding or disguising, just cooperative effort.

We had to try different preparation methods, glazing carrots
for example, but it has worked successfully. We also
stressed how important a balanced diet is to healthy
nutrition.

CPSchwarz said:

I'm trying to locate some recipes or a cook book that
deals with hiding vegetables. I have two boys who
absolutely refuse to eat any type of vegetable with the
exception of potatoes. If anyone has any suggestions or
knows of a cook book it would be greatly appreciated.

I answered earlier, have now read the other answers in the
thread and now realize how far afield I've gotten from your
question. Let me ask you, the original poster, some
questions that can help me answer yours.

First, I know of no cookbook that fits the description of
the one you're looking for. I know plenty of cookbooks for
cooking vegetables, but none on hiding them so they're
invisible or can't be tasted.

What are the vegetables that the adults in your family like
to eat and look forward to eating and prepare all the time
that the boys won't eat? How are those vegetables prepared?

For example, do you like broccoli? Do you prepare it at home
and serve it often? How do you make it? Raw? Raw with sour
cream dip as a crudite? Steamed plain? Steamed with butter?
Boiled? Pureed and put in broccoli and cheddar soup?
Broccoli quiche? Battered and fried as in tempura with
ginger dipping sauce? Broccoli slaw? I could ask a similar
question with each vegetable, but start with broccoli as
that's one vegetable that most adults consider normal and
one that many children take one look at and think GREEN
(while they shudder).

--Lia

CPSchwarz said:

I'm trying to locate some recipes or a cook book that
deals with hiding vegetables. I have two boys who
absolutely refuse to eat any type of vegetable with the
exception of potatoes. If anyone has any suggestions or
knows of a cook book it would be greatly appreciated.

Chris

Don't hide them. Do stuff like stir frozen peas in at the
last minute when you make any main dish that has a cream
sauce in it.

If they don't like onions and you need onions as a seasoning
when you cook, mince them very fine so they dissolve in the
food. The same goes for tomatoes. A lot of kids don't like
the *texture* of onions or tomatoes.

Bob

CPSchwarz said:

I'm trying to locate some recipes or a cook book that
deals with hiding vegetables. I have two boys who
absolutely refuse to eat any type of vegetable with the
exception of potatoes. If anyone has any suggestions or
knows of a cook book it would be greatly appreciated.

Chris

I'd advise you not to hide them, but to make them more
palatable. Take any zucchini bread recipe with nuts, maybe
raisins, add applesauce for 1/2 the fat called for, and make
it into muffins with a cinnamon streusel topping.

Pumpkin-nut muffins with pineapple and maybe shelled
sunflower seeds.

Gazpacho with spicy croutons

Sliced zucchini bread with low-fat cream cheese for
breakfast

Serve baby carrots, chunks of red and green pepper, tiny
broccoli or cauliflower florets with ranch dressing for
dipping or a low fat sour cream-salsa mix or whatever other
flavor appeals to them. (Spinach dip?)

Make BLTs. You can't call them that unless they have lettuce
and tomato!

Open-faced grilled cheese sandwiches topped with a thick
slice of ripe tomato.

Cherry tomatoes hollowed out and filled with herb
cream cheese.

A lot of the cocktail foods grownups eat are veg based. Try
some of those.

gloria p

"CPSchwarz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

Quoted message said:

I'm trying to locate some recipes or a cook book that
deals with hiding vegetables. I have two boys who
absolutely refuse to eat any type of vegetable with the
exception of potatoes. If anyone has any suggestions or
knows of a cook book it would be greatly appreciated.

Chris

Don't sweat it. Kids grow up strong and healthy on the most
amazing sounding diets.

As a kid I loathed any vegetable except raw carrots and
celery, and corn. No amount of scolding or pleading was
going to make me eat them. At the Thanksgiving table once,
my Nazi-like aunt made a scene and INSISTED I eat some peas.
I told her I'd throw up if I had to swallow those nasty
little green pellets, but she wouldn't let up. I calmly took
one pea, chewed it up, gagged it down, and immediately threw
up all over the turkey. That was the last time anyone ever
tried to force me to eat anything I didn't like.

Incidentally, I now love all vegetables 🙂

-Scott

CPSchwarz said:

I'm trying to locate some recipes or a cook book that
deals with hiding vegetables. I have two boys who
absolutely refuse to eat any type of vegetable with the
exception of potatoes. If anyone has any suggestions or
knows of a cook book it would be greatly appreciated.

not really the answer you were looking for...but...

My folks had the policy that you were to eat a wide array of
items...even those we didn't necessarily like. Should we
refuse to eat something, the next meal would have had
several items made with "item X" and no refugia foods like
those they knew we liked. We had the option of not
eating...and we used it...once...maybe twice. We got hip to
the fact that being hungry wasn't cool and developed very
wide food tastes. They also made sure when we traveled (in
the US or abroad), that we ate stuff known from that area.
About the only think I wouldn't consider eating now is
beets. My brother eats them...but then, I think they dropped
him on his head when he was young. <grin>

But I wouldn't hide anything in foods...rather just make
them available...even at the exclusion of meat and potatoes.
It basically cuts out any refuge for not eating them. Just
don't tell them that is the plan.

CPSchwarz said:

I'm trying to locate some recipes or a cook book that
deals with hiding vegetables. I have two boys who
absolutely refuse to eat any type of vegetable with the
exception of potatoes. If anyone has any suggestions or
knows of a cook book it would be greatly appreciated.

Chris

Spagetti. Puree steamed zucc and carrot and onion, brown it
lightly in olive oil, add a good marinara. Over their
favourite shape pasta. Potato and corn chowder. Corn is
sweet. Are you sure they aren't just having a ball yanking
your chain. blacksalt who got yanked today. Asking baby if
he needed the potty he rushed over to to it eagerly, and as
soon as I squatted down in front and pointed his
dinglewingle south, he let out that painful screech he uses
to get a reaction....right in my perfectly placed ear,
giggled, and bolted off the potty.

With food above all else I hate it when something is hidden.
I will try anything as long as I know what it is, if it
looks kinda funky and the cooks line is "oh just try it,
you'll love it" the radar goes off I immediately assume that
it contains something "gross" like canned cream of celery
soup and I won't try it. Why the need for the mystery? I
know of no cookbooks on how to hide vegetables.

My DD is almost ten and will eat or at least try nearly
anything. I have never catered to her tastes, never made one
meal for the children and one for the adults. She can try
whatever she wants and if she doesn't like it she doesn't
have to eat it. When she was younger there were stages when
she wouldn't eat certain things, I really didn't worry too
much about it and didn't make a big deal it passed. She
doesn't like white mushrooms, turnips, or parsnips but has
tried them all at least twice by her own decision. At an
anti veggie time raw veggies with dip were fine as was corn
on the cob.

Children's thoughts on food are inspired by a number of
things, parents, other children, pop culture and marketing,
kids used ketchup before it came in colors other than red
The picture book Yoko by Rosemary Wells made my DD decide
that she wanted to try sushi...a bit timid at first she
prefered maki that contained either veggies or cooked fish,
although she did try at least one raw piece on her first
two sushi bar trips, by trip three she was happily dining
on sashimi.

I know parents who's children will not eat any veggies at
home or at school but will eat veggies here. The parent's
don't understand. Frankly I wouldn't eat the veggies they
serve either. I've had no trouble getting kids to eat fresh
spinach but put canned spinach in front of them and they
won't touch it, with good reason IMO. Those also tend to be
the same parents that never have the problem of there being
nothing ready to eat at any given moment because there are
only *ingredients* in the kitchen.

20 some years later I still recall the one meal I was
"forced" to eat. These horrid meatballs wrapped with bacon
from some Avon cookbook. If my mom made them for dinner now
I still wouldn't touch them. They might even be good but the
memory would stop me from touching them. I feel the same way
about milk...I never liked it, I sat at the table until I
drank it or went to bed many a night. I cannot recall the
last time I had milk that wasn't on a frappe, or on cereal.

Jessica

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I'm trying to locate some recipes or a cook book that
deals with hiding vegetables. I have two boys who
absolutely refuse to eat any type of vegetable with the
exception of potatoes. If anyone has any suggestions

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knows of a cook book it would be greatly appreciated.

Chris