Having a Picky Eater Has Made Me Quite Creative

Karen always asks me how I get Seporah to eat vegetables and I’m always like I don’t know because at the time she asks I really don’t. But somehow or another I get her to eat them. I figured I would make a list while I was sitting and thinking about it. Realize sometimes the ideas work, sometimes they don’t. (FYI, Felicity isn’t as difficult since she still eats just about anything I put in front of her, she still eats my lasagna with spinach in it, my shepard’s pie with carrots, celery, mushrooms and tomatoes, my hashbrowns with peppers and onions, etc.) (Oh, and we’ve tried giving Seporah globs of ranch dressing to dip veggies in, she just eats the ranch dressing, ditto for peanut butter)

-shredded carrots in top ramen
-little broccoli trees in rice
-sauteed fresh spinach an onions with the hamburger before adding the sauce for spaghetti
-dad makes pizza with all sorts of veggies on it depending on what we have-spinach, broccoli, red peppers, onions, tomatoes
-while they wait for chicken nuggets to cook, I let her “help” me cook fresh vegetables like carrots and red peppers and cooked broccoli and she eats them before the nuggets are done
-I make this crockpot dish with chicken, cream of mushroom soup and a whole head of pureed cauliflower, then add rice and corn when it’s all cooked.
-she won’t dip celery into peanut butter, but if you spread it on really thick and slice it into 1/4 inch segments, then take a toothpick and skewer a raisin and the peanut butter celery, she’ll eat that
-the juice we drink at home is 100% fruit and vegetable juice, either Juicy Juice’s Harvest Surprise or V-8 Fushion
-we make zucchini bread in cupcake tins and then call them cupcakes
-broccoli on top of bakes potatoes
-corn in mac and cheese
-onions go in just about everything we cook, they’re actually a great source of calcium

And if all else fails, she still gets her daily vitamin.