You definatly have to hide vegies in all sorts of different foods mine like rissoles which they dont know i have hidden carrots, capsicum,peas etc

My kids loved Tuna Patties. Started off very simple with only mash potato and tuna, rolled in egg and breadcrumbs then shallow fried. I could gradually add other vegies.

Adding in purees to cooked foods is one way to get the nutrition in. I’ve had a few kids that didn’t like veges, apart from making them accessible and first using brightly coloured sweeter vege (carrots, celery and corn are great starters) sometime combining them with other things can help. Celery with peanut butter or cream cheese gets them going (though destringing them first will help) – dips – garlic and beetroot dip, garlic and pumpkin are great too – or just having the vege sticks with dips (french onion etc) will break down resistance. The main hurdle is getting them to try them without the pressure. If they walk past while you are preparing dinner, offer them a sliver. NO PRESSURE and don’t watch them.
Also remove any biscuit, chips, snacky type food in the house and make it limited to what they can have. They’ll eventually try them, if they see you eating/ snacking on them. The younger one will probably crack first lol!

If you are worried from a nutritional point just hide them in slices, muffins, spaghetti etc if you are worried in general about them disliking them, don’t stress I think most kids go through stages where they wont eat vegies. I have made up brocolli is dinosaur food like trees so my ids think that’s funny and roar when they are about to munch on brocolli when they were not eating that… I guess it depends what reason they dont want them..just to be defiant, dont like the taste/textures etc Do they like mashed potato? if so you can mash pumpkin or sweet potato with normal potato make a game of it they think its weird like rainbow mash or something.. you can also put peas and corn kernels in mash..call it a pirates treasure chest got to dig and eat the treasures

I agree with Ellen C, I know its time consuming but its worth it. All my children loved their vegies. I made it all in different shapes, animals, what ever stories I can create on the day. Especially a two year old, they love listening to stories so if you have extra time, they will love you for it. My 12 year old still talked about his experience how his schoolmate wanting to come to our house so that they can have a dragon carrots, a cucumber trucks. The important thing is not to force them and remove a lot of choices that they can get in the fridge.

Yesterday I made a whole batch of piklets (or flap jacks or hot cakes, whatever you want to call it), halved the sugar and added pumpkin and potato puree in the mix before frying in a pan. The pumpkin gives it a sweet taste (that’s why you don’t need as much sugar) and the potato makes it so easy to fry. You can make carrot cake, kumara (or sweet potato) scones and beetroot muffins. The possibilities of adding veggies to baked goods are endless!

I make my kids veggie juice but add a few oranges or apple etc so it still has that sweet juice taste!! It’s excellent. They still get all the nutrients because you’re not cooking them out and you can add anything in there!! The only thing that juicing takes away is fibre so be sure they’re still getting their fibre intake. Go buy a juicer!!!

One of my girls didn’t like zucchini but I would always put at least one on her plate and say if she wanted (whatever..desert or some thing else) she had to have it….now she loves it. 🙂 did not work with my second….she loved fruit and other things…so I chose my battles and always put more mash on her plate and a small amount other veggie….there was no bargaining with her as it wouldn’t still…one day she just started to eat them. Still not big in broccoli but we found she is fussy with textures and will eat broccoli stem but not the top..and she will be 5 in Feb.

be tough, dont give them anything else but whats on their plate and if they dont eat it then they get nothing else. did this with my son for 2 nights…..that was all it took…tho i started by disguising veges in meatballs, in pasta sauce, or even pureeing say pumpkin or peas n carrots as a sauce on fresh ravioli! home made sausage rolls with pureed veges instead of egg; home made burgers with grated zuchini n carrot etc

my son was 3 wen i had this problem. so i boiled the hell out of all veg n masged together. gav him a big bowl n refused to give him any meat(steak, sausages, chicken) til.plate was empty. took a couple nights. now he eats veg befire anything else on his plate

try vegetable fritters…mine has a few vegies and only since getting her 4yr old needles when nurse says she must eat whats offered…

I hide half of the veg by grating or pureeing it into food but leave some that they can identify. My 2 year old never liked veg and cant stand fruit, not winning the fruit battle but the veg battle has been pretty much won.

Hiding them is a great idea, I also made a car from bread, mini sausages and all sorts of veg, our little guy loved eating the tires made from baby corn and the bumpers made from green beans and carrots! 🙂

2 fold approach in our house, we hide most by blitzing them up but leave a few visable for the kids to pick out and complain about. We also cook plain veges and play with them eg we brush our teeth with green beans before eating them, we take a bite out of zucchini rings and stand them up to make snails then race to eat the 1st and we use carrot rings as bread to make spinach sandwiches- crazy but true 🙂 brocolli and caulli are the only 2 we have failed with (grated over mash potato as sprinkles)… we had trouble getting sanwiches and eggs eaten here too and so we used bento tools to make them more appealing!

We also call them superhero names, sounds silly but made a huge difference with 3yo. He won’t eat lettuce but call it “super X-ray vision lettuce” and he’ll gobble it up. On weekends we treat him with ” bubble drink” ( ribena + mineral water) and this is only if he eats or at least tries all his dinner. Goodluck 🙂

I hated veggies when I was lil but would eat them when they were all mashed together which is the same as my daughter. I also find tht mashing the veggies and rolling some up in Devon helps sometimes too.

The art of hiding them ! … You can mash up carrots and sweed and mix them into things like beans or mash, cauliflower can also be hidden well in mash and broccoli if you take the stalks off and just use the top and mash them can be mistaken for herbs in mash or spagbol, we used to hide our kids in things like gravy or beans, spaghetti any sort of sauces , soon you’ll be a pro and hiding them and your kids will never know 🙂 xx

On playschool this morning they sliced up veggies like carrot and zucchini and made rice paper spring rolls with them, maybe try that and also try getting them to help make them and get them to make shapes with them, etc 🙂

Work up slowly. Start with if u play/touch this. Then kiss it. Then lock it. Then bite it. Etc. can take 20 attempts to be a true reaction but worth it.

do they like pasta? if they do…get a blender, put your vegies through till there’s no lumps then mix it in the sauce. you can also hide grated vegies into alot of other things…like rissoles etc.