11 quick and surefire ways to get kids eating healthy

  

Although I have embedded a lot of tips about getting your kids to like healthy food within the recipes, as a time starved mom I know this is essential information. These tips work for getting kids to try just about anything, even cookies.

Apple Twisties Salad.

 Apple-zucchini salad with roasted chickpeas.

Twisties: a word made up to entice a couple of 4yr olds to try radish. It is now used liberally that we have a spiral cutter.

 

Serves: 4 or more (4 as a very satisfying meal)

About:  Although my kids do like salads and veggies, certain words scare them. Zucchini is one of them. There is something about the name that causes mass hysteria in this house. Twisties goes over better, in fact the zucchini here became “pasta twisties” The crunch of the roasted chickpeas and the sweetness of fruit salad and its dressing make this a surefire hit.

I want to make it over and over again Veggie Burger

Serves:4

About: My daughter has decided that her favourite vegetable is eggplant. I believe this is because she likes eggs (sorta…). I also have been getting eggplants in my lufa farms basket on a regular basis so this worked out nicely. I had a couple of eggplants from a previous dish