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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 373741" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Deceptively Delicious is written by Jessica Seinfeld. However,I looked at it and really, the amount of good nutrition you can actually sneak in, is minimal. It also isn't likely to be as effective for Sensory Integration Disorder (SID) people or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) people. The main advantage of her methods, is after the kids have scoffed a batch of brownies, you can say to them, "Do you realise there was zucchini in that? Maybe you could try zucchini in other things too." But the amount of zucchini is not that great.</p><p></p><p>I just made a chocolate cake for easy child 2/difficult child 2's birthday party tomorrow. At the last minute on a whim, I put three over-ripe bananas into the mix. The result is a very rich, moist cake which is still mostly choc-toffee in flavour. Sometimes adding good fruit & veg to otherwise "rubbish" food improves the texture or quality of the rubbish. But mostly, it links good food with rubbish, so the kids still eat the rubbish and reject the veg.</p><p></p><p>We go the other way - I let the kids sneak good food. I peel carrots to roast them, but leave the peel lying around. difficult child 3 sneaks it and eats the peel. If I leave carrots out, he will sneak them too. You can present good food in different ways. Kids often prefer vegetables raw - try peeling a carrot, then keep peeling. Present the kids with a plate of carrot ribbons. Or apple peel. Or both together. If you're peeling apple for the kids, add a little orange juice or lemon juice to stop it browning. Make melon balls (different kinds of melon, different colours). Use the melon baller on apple and pear a well. Freeze the melon balls, freeze grapes, bananas, mango - you can let the kids eat it froze, or puree it frozen and give it to the kids as a frozen dessert. No need to add sugar. Sometimes frozen works better because it changes the texture.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 373741, member: 1991"] Deceptively Delicious is written by Jessica Seinfeld. However,I looked at it and really, the amount of good nutrition you can actually sneak in, is minimal. It also isn't likely to be as effective for Sensory Integration Disorder (SID) people or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) people. The main advantage of her methods, is after the kids have scoffed a batch of brownies, you can say to them, "Do you realise there was zucchini in that? Maybe you could try zucchini in other things too." But the amount of zucchini is not that great. I just made a chocolate cake for easy child 2/difficult child 2's birthday party tomorrow. At the last minute on a whim, I put three over-ripe bananas into the mix. The result is a very rich, moist cake which is still mostly choc-toffee in flavour. Sometimes adding good fruit & veg to otherwise "rubbish" food improves the texture or quality of the rubbish. But mostly, it links good food with rubbish, so the kids still eat the rubbish and reject the veg. We go the other way - I let the kids sneak good food. I peel carrots to roast them, but leave the peel lying around. difficult child 3 sneaks it and eats the peel. If I leave carrots out, he will sneak them too. You can present good food in different ways. Kids often prefer vegetables raw - try peeling a carrot, then keep peeling. Present the kids with a plate of carrot ribbons. Or apple peel. Or both together. If you're peeling apple for the kids, add a little orange juice or lemon juice to stop it browning. Make melon balls (different kinds of melon, different colours). Use the melon baller on apple and pear a well. Freeze the melon balls, freeze grapes, bananas, mango - you can let the kids eat it froze, or puree it frozen and give it to the kids as a frozen dessert. No need to add sugar. Sometimes frozen works better because it changes the texture. Marg [/QUOTE]
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