7 Non-Sneaky Ways to Get Your Kids to Love Veggies

If your youngster like potatoes but doesn't like other vegetables, hide them in their favorite. Overall, cauliflower is readily concealed. Sassos suggests mashing cauliflower with mashed potatoes for volume and nutrients.

1. Bulk up mashed potatoes with cauliflower.

A veggie-boosted bar like ZENB might be a good alternative to fresh food when it's unavailable, particularly if your mini me likes other snack bars.  Your kids will love trying the maize, carrot, beet, and bell pepper tastes

2. Try veg-based snacks similar to treats they already love.

Sassos learned this vegetable tip from her mom: She would always grate carrots and zucchini really finely and add them into turkey or beef mixture for meatballs, burgers, or meat loaf.

3. Grate zucchini or carrots into meat mixtures.

Produce-pack pasta night by swapping half of the beef in any bolognese or meat sauce with finely-chopped sautéed mushrooms. Or for mac and cheese, steam, purée, and stir in a cup or so of butternut squash

4. Make them incognito in sauces.

If your child loves pasta, sneak in some vegetables so they can enjoy both, Sassos advises. Mix half spiralized and half ordinary noodles, and for sensitive eaters, peel zucchini to make it seem like spaghetti.

5. Try half zoodles, half noodles.

Smoothies almost mask the flavor of riced cauliflower, cauliflower florets, spinach, and baby kale (less bitter than ordinary kale). The spinach and baby kale may turn green, but you won't taste it, Sassos explains.

6. Blend them into smoothies.

Since kids love fries, air-frying potatoes and other vegetables is a wonderful way to sneak out of secret area to, "Hey, how about that?" You like butternut squash fries! The intense heat of the small convection oven crisps them.

7. When in doubt, air fry.