Healthy Diet for May 15 – Sneak ‘Em In

Have a challenge getting your family to eat vegetables? Is your family well intentioned, but poor at meal planning? Do they simply resist or dislike veggies?

Then maybe you need to get sneaky. Your family deserves the chance to experience new flavors, get the health benefits, and ultimately learn to enjoy vegetables in new ways.

If veggies meet with family resistance:

• Serve salsa. Salsa (with tomatoes, beans, or other veggies) served with pita, bagel, or tortilla chips doesn’t seem like a vegetable.
• Blend them in. Put shredded carrots in mashed potatoes, or mix them with potatoes for twice-baked potatoes, chopped broccoli in macaroni and cheese, layered zucchini in lasagna, or shredded spinach in slaw.
• Wrap it up. Hide veggies in a tortilla wrap, under pizza cheese, or at the bottom of a pita.
• Serve one-dish meals. That way, they can’t push away the veggie side dish.