mmm deceptively spaghetti...

I bought the book "Deceptively Delicious" that has recipes of different foods with added vegetable purees - basically ways to get your kids to get the veggies they need - when they won't eat them. Now, Zane is not really big on veggies - but he's not opposed to sometimes having one bite. To be honest, I got the book because I was interested in putting veggies in things for ME. I like veggies ok, I'm just SOOO bad about cooking them. I never remember to make veggies with dinner. Or, I forget to buy them in the first place. I'm also the kind of cook that would prefer to cook a whole bunch of stuff at once, and throw it all in the freezer - so I can just throw something in the oven, etc. for dinner.

So, a few weekends ago, I spent the afternoon Sat. making dozens of dozens of purees that I can just throw into dishes: cauliflower, sweet potato, squash, carrot, spinach, broccoli, red pepper, etc. The plus side to having all these purees in the freezer is that Lily can eat them as baby food too! There are also some great looking (I haven't tried them yet) dessert recipes in the book. I will let you know how they are when I try them.


Tonight we just had regular old spaghetti, but I threw in a carrot and a broccoli puree - so an extra cup of veggies. Didn't change the taste one bit. Zane loved it and Lily really enjoyed it. I thought I would compare pictures of the kids eating spaghetti around the same ages (Zane was a little older)- pretty cute kids!