Nice light Food thread!

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What ingenious methods have you found to disguise healthy food in order for you children to eat it?

My ds1 will not eat cheese and is a bit low on his dairy intake so bought some Red Leicester cheese and grated it into his Baked beans until it became invisible!

If this is a "hooter" thread I'm about to start,I apologise now, but I am in need of some good ideas please.

how old is your DS?
Lots of adding veg to sauces - if you puree it you can't see it it just thickens the sauce

Will he eat bananas and custard as a pudding - that is dairy, or rice pudding - try adding a blob of jam and turning it pink or whatever.
(yeah I know jam is not healthy)

soup. you can hide a multitude of sins in a pot of soup.

my ds gets a bit funny about some veg so I make pitta pizzas and hide the veg under the cheese.

ofr his cheese..mix it in with a pasta sauce so its melted

He is 4 in January.

I find scrambled eggs with milk and butter ,hides well in heinz spagetti ,cheese on toast with tomato ketchupand french toast with his favourite topping on top (his is marmite)

As he is 4 do you find if he helps to make something he is more likely to try to eat it afterwards? Within reason of course. I try to adapt soemthing he already eats, and change it a little to add something I want them to try. If you so it by stealth sometimes you can get surprising results.
Also Keep eating things you want him to try in front of him He might surprise you and ask you for a taste one of these days. DS (nearly 5) has now begun to do this a bit more)

I add peanut butter to his Ready Brek, to increase the calories and protein content. Also add cheese to omelette and pasta sauce.

cheesy mash

My oldest had a real problem with dairy products and eventually we were sent to a dietician at the childrens hospital. He said that children with low dairy could take a calcium supplement (boots do one that is vanilla flavoured so not too chalky). He suggested a tablet every other day or half a tab daily. My ds was 5 then. Now he is 7 he has a tablet a day. The other thing we were told is to fortify (sp?) food where possible with milk powder. It`s quite easy to get it into mash or stews.

By th by, what is a hooter thread?

should read "by the way" not "by th by".

Think Humkermumker started a "Hooter" thread about "Hooter" subjects that got your goat up when you saw them usually because of the banality or boredom factor of the subject!
As you can see from the length of this thread,people just don't find this kind of stuff interesting so don't bother to post!

thank you - always interested (yet slow) to pick up on the mumsnet slang words.

Oi, DIT! Wasn't me who started that thread!

And I've started threads about my vacuum cleaner fgs

very interseting too I imagine!

interesting even.

Sorry,Hunker!