[blparent] fruits and vegetables! Yuck!

[Amber Boggs]

all grate ideas, I just want to add, if the bos are constapated, anything in 
the squash family witch includes squash pumpcan etc will make them more 
constapated. But I bet they will like them. Grin

Amber Boggs

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at pcdesk.net>
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Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: [blparent] fruits and vegetables! Yuck!


> Hi Barbara.  I know you said your boys like meat.  Maybe you could try the 
> baby meatloaf I made yesterday.  Sarah seems to be eating it okay.  Just 
> take a pound of ground beef or turkey, put in some veggie purees--I added 
> spinach and squash--a couple of eggs, and enough oatmeal or bread crumbs 
> to hold the meat together.  I used oatmeal and wheat germ.  Bake the 
> meatloaf in a standard pan for about an hour.  I left it covered with foil 
> so that the top never got hard during baking.  You might cut the recipe in 
> half the first time because it makes a lot.  I sliced up the meatloaf and 
> wrapped the squares individually in foil so I could take them out of the 
> freezer one at a time.
>
> As far as purees to add to rice, pumpkin comes to mind.  You can get it in 
> a can, and it is smooth and slightly sweet.  Maybe add a little cinnamon 
> into the rice.  You could do the same with sweet potato, which also comes 
> in a can.  Or you could boil or bake fresh sweet potatoes and mash them 
> yourself, then add them to the rice.  If you want to cook a pumpkin or any 
> kind of a winter squash like butternut or acorn, which would all make nice 
> purees, just cut the squash in half, scoop out the seeds, and place the 
> halves cut side down in a pan with a little water in the bottom.  Bake 
> them till the squash is tender and comes off the rind easily.
>
> I would think you could add mashed banana, pureed pear or peach, or even 
> grated apples or carrots to rice.  Cooked carrots mash nicely if the kids 
> won't eat the raw grated ones because of the texture.
>
> I hope some of these ideas work.  I'll keep thinking.
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> "Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds 
> water."--Swedish proverb
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
> To: "blparent" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 8:03 PM
> Subject: [blparent] fruits and vegetables! Yuck!
>
>
>> Now I know a bunch of you out there use creative ways to get the fruits 
>> and vegetables in your kids.  I'm thinking of the food processor trick to 
>> make a puree to mix in with the rice and more rice.  What kinds of 
>> vegetables don't your kiddos eat like this?  I know corn and peas won't 
>> work so well this way and I've thought of green beans and carrots but 
>> what other are good?  And if you say any kind of squash, how do you cook 
>> it?
>> Now for the fruit.  Would any fruit work like the vegetable trick?
>> My twins are taking a capful of Miralax a day and still seem to be having 
>> tummy trouble.  I know rice is a constipator but they won't eat potatoes.
>> I think I'm ready to try dabbling in different foods to expand their 
>> horizons.
>> Barbara
>> If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care:  of whom 
>> you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.
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