I know some people frown upon it, but what are your best hidden veg recipes?

[StanleyAccrington]

apart from peas and sweetcorn, dd2 is a veg dodger.
she will however eat veggie burritos, because everything's chopped up small, and hidden under a tortilla. what are the other good ways of smuggling nutrients into your offspring?

spag bol, shephards pie, veg lasgane, lasagne

Can you tell dd is currently treating veg and fruit as Satan's gonads?

How to hide veg from 24 yo DP? He swears he can taste veg when I try to hide it and then refuses to eat it.

Also, do bigga peas count as veg? Its the only veg he will eat.

For kids though, soups are a good way to hide veg if you blend it at the end of cooking.

wanna I hope bigga peas count 'cos I bloody love them!

Think your DP needs a word with my DH who has a natural fear of anything fresh and good for you. Had a serious word with him when pg with pfb, about how his eating would affect his children and he now eats veg! Started him off easily though by doing things like chicken & broccolli stir fry, which he loved. His DM had always cooked vegs until they were sludge

I am preg and have had that convo with him. But got fed up of watching him try not to vomit while eating my own dinner so I have given up.

It drives me insane. I miss kidney beans in chilli and sweetcorn in pies. I miss carrots. I just want veg but watching him pick them all out drives me nuts so I just dont put them in now. He wont even eat new baby potatoes fgs. The skin might kill him

Sounds like he seriously needs to man up and think about his health and the health of his DC.

tbh I am not wild on veg myself, but can certainly tolerate in when in pies, curries etc. i think your DP is making a bit of a mountain out of a molehill.

i don't really do mince, but will definitely have a crack a veg lasagne.

I agree. As I get older I try and like more and more fruit and veg but hes a big baby about it all.

I have told him that I will be putting veg in and that if he is going to fuss he can go eat somewhere else. He blames mnet :o

Cauliflower crust pizza

mash up cauliflower in some mashed potato.

cauliflower!
I am not sure how, but I had forgotten that stuff even existed

My BIL is like this. I just don't understand what he eats?!!

Grated carrot into bolognese sauce, simmer for a long time and it magically disappears. Also bulks out the mince

curry with tomatoes corgette celery all blended up and then added after you've fried off onions and garlic and ginger then cooked down and blended again?

If you use a curry paste and make it hot the veg would be pretty undetectable.

Would he eat chips made out of sweet potato (and oven baked)?

Oven roast a load of veg - courgette, aubergine, onions, peppers, butternut squash etc. chuck in some garlic cloves, fresh thyme, olive oil and half a cup of water. Cook for an hour on low, remove thyme stalks at the end, blend with a couple of bottles of passage or tins of tomato, freeze in freezer bags, defrost for spagbol, pasta sauce, sauce for chicken with rice, pizza sauce etc etc. I make a load every so often...

• passata, not passage!

thanks for all the ideas
i did discover tonight that she will eat big slices of pepper, carrot, and green beans, if smothered in sufficient amounts of green curry sauce .

Carrot muffins - whiz carrot in food processor or grate it, and the muffins are like not-very-sweet carrot cake. Apparently courgettes can be used too.

Tomato puree in omelettes or on pasta, when I haven't got round to make proper hidden-veg sauce.

I have just make banana and carrot and courgette muffins. With chopped-up chocolate. They are nice.

DH regularly tries to convince me that he can count chips as one of his five a day

I try to eat low carb when I am not being a pig and often thicken sauces by cooking extra veg and liquidising half then mixing it back in. Family haven't noticed the difference yet.