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What's your sneakiest way of getting your child to eat fruit/veg?

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mummytummy · 22/01/2005 14:57

I am feeling so smug after getting DD1 (2.9) to eat a whole tomato and a mushroom:

skin and de-seed the tomato. Fry mushroom and tomato in butter until soft. Puree with a hand blender and stir into omelette mixture before putting it in the pan.

Anyone got any other sneaky ones?

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miranda2 · 23/01/2005 00:32

Great tip from nigella which i didn't think would work but does! Pasta with pesto, and you add a (defrosted!) frozen minced spinach cube to the pesto sauce. DS wouldn't eat anything green at c.2, so we did it with red pesto, then once he'd got used to that we switched to green no prob - since when he's got used to eating veg generally.
Our real breakthrough came at c.2.5, when he was sitting in the pushchair holding some broccoli I'd just bought, and started nibbling it as a sweet on the way home!

nm · 23/01/2005 00:48

Sorry haven't had time to read all of these so apologies if already mentioned - either grated carrot or sweet potato in spaghetti bolognese - both cook and get mushed down to nothing.

colditzmum · 24/01/2005 00:37

Puree the veg up with a potato, to make a yoghurty consistancy.

Serve in an egg cup, with a spoon and a flourish!

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