Top 10 Ways to Sneak More Fruits & Veggies into Your Child's Diet

Ten Top Ways To Sneak More Fruits & Veggies into Your Child's Diet

By: Richard Hackworth

If your kids are like mine were, they are not a big fan of fruits or veggies. So I was always trying to find ways to sneak fruits and veggies into their diet.

"They don't need to eat veggies, I’ll just give them a good multivitamin," you think.

Not so fast!

In a stalk of broccoli, there are over 1000 phytochemicals (or plant chemicals).

Scientists have only determined what about 98 of them are (according to two year old research). Therefore, there are about 902 other "things" in a stalk of broccoli, that were probably put there for a specific purpose that can't be put into a pill. And if we ignore them, that could be the weak-link in the complicated biochemical chain of events that leads to health, focus, energy, etc. etc. etc.

The point? You gotta get fruits and veggies into your child’s diet and here are 10 great ways to "sneak" them in!

1. Add beans to salads, vegetable soup.
2. Use your food processor to chop vegetables up finely and add to soup, quesadillas.
3. Use cut up veggies to "beef up" meatloaf and soups.
4. Use tomato juice as broth for veggie soup.
5. Cut up veggies like carrots, and zucchini. Add them to your meatloaf or soup recipes.
6. Toss raisins into baked goods, yogurt or oatmeal.
7. Include onions, peppers and mushrooms in omelets.
8. Use veggies as snacks. Peanut butter on celery is a great snack for kids. Cup cakes, and cookies are desserts, do NOT feed them to your child as snacks. Please don’t send your child to an early grave by feeding them desserts all day. Save desserts for holidays, birthdays, and other special occasions. They will love you for many more years.
9. Serve a small garden salad before meals just like restaurants do. It will make eating at home seem more formal and special.
10. Use lettuce leaves instead of flatbread to make some chicken salad or turkey wraps. They are healthy and taste great too.

There you have it.

10 sneaky ways to get more fruits and veggies into your child's diet.

Start using these tips today and you will notice an improvement in your child’s health in just a few short weeks. Never underestimate the value of eating right when it comes to being fit and healthy.