Sneaky Vegetables

I'm rather lucky in that my kids will eat most anything.  They each have their own little dislikes, but they all eat salads and vegetables.  So why sneak in more veggies? Why not?   If I can add more nutrition and in most cases more taste to my meals without compromising the good thing I've got going I'm all for it.

Lets take onions.  You could read more about there nutritional value here.  Take my word, they are good for you.  For a kid though, they can be a texture issue, or the taste is too intense.  So what is a mom to do?  Keep reading, we'll do this together.

Lightly chop one onion and one each of red, green and yellow bell peppers.  Saute them together with a spoonful of butter, garlic powder, season salt, pepper, all to taste.  Place the mixture into a food processor or mixer and puree it.  Separate the mixture into an ice cube tray and freeze.  Once they are frozen you can pop them out of the ice tray and put them into a ziploc bag.  Now you have Sneaky Vegetables, in an easy to use cube form.

If I make a soup, chili or homemade hamburger helper I add Sneaky Vegetables to it.  Not one kid has noticed.  They just eat away.  You can do lots of other vegetables like mushrooms, squashes and tomatoes.  Its kind of like making baby food!  I'm sure someday they will catch me tossing a cube in and when it does I'll just tell them its a tasty cube, that I use to make everything taste yummy.

Buy the veggies when they are on sale...save yourself some green too!