Your kid won't go near vegetables? See if you can sneak in a few here and there with some of these suggestions.
Meatloaf
Add a mixed vegetable medley to your meatloaf recipe.
Pasta
Scatter cooked vegetables throughout pasta and then cover with marinara sauce.
Tuna Pita
Grate carrots into tuna or chicken salad and stuff in a pita pocket.
Pizza
Make homemade pizza. Toss on sliced mushrooms and chopped broccoli before spreading on the cheese.
Lasagna
Make vegetable lasagna. You can stick with a single vegetable such as spinach or mix in a variety of chopped, cooked vegetables, such as zucchini, cauliflower, broccoli, carrots, mushrooms, green beans, and so on.
Mashed Potatoes
Add cooked peas, corn, and carrots to mashed potatoes.
Soup
Serve vegetable soup with crackers.
Hamburgers
Puree cooked squash and carrots and then add small amounts into your ground beef or ground turkey. Shape into hamburgers or turkey-burgers and cook on the grill.
Baked Potatoes
Top a baked potato with chopped broccoli and low-fat melted cheese.
Muffins
Make low-fat zucchini and carrot muffins.
Tacos
Serve "make-your-own tacos" and have different stations set up with lean ground beef (or ground turkey), sliced tomatoes, shredded lettuce, and carrots.
Kabobs
Make chicken-vegetable kabobs. Alternate chunks of grilled chicken, peppers, tomatoes, onions, zucchini, and mushrooms on metal skewers. Set up a variety of dips that your kids can have fun experimenting with, such as barbecue sauce, honey mustard sauce, sweet and sour sauce, and low-fat salad dressings. Of course, maybe you'll get lucky and your kids will simply like the original marinade.
Rice
Finely chop cooked broccoli and thoroughly mix into your rice.
Stir-Fry
Turn your kids on to wok cooking and have them assist with washing and cutting up the vegetables. Try chicken-vegetable stir-fry, beef-vegetable stir-fry, or seafood-vegetable stir-fry. Pour them all over rice or linguini and hand out the chopsticks.
Dip
Make a spinach dip with low-fat plain yogurt, low-fat sour cream, and pureed cooked spinach. Have them dip carrots, celery, peppers, and zucchini slices. If they don't want to dip with raw veggies, give them some crackers; at least they'll get the spinach from the dip.
