tips for kids

Bridget asked for vegetarian recipes for kids. don't have time for recipes right now but here are some tips:

1. Hide the Health: vege burgers, vege burgers, vege burgers. A good lentil or tofu burger always works cos it has sauce and cheese and salad and is messy and fun. That's how my parents got me to eat my lentils.

2. Colour: lentils and beans and such can be murky and brown when served to kids as dahl or stew. Try them in a colourful salad, or blend them into tomato or pumpkin soup (with cheesy toast) or at least put something colourful next to them!

3. Dips: here you can get kids to eat vege sticks AND good vitamins by way of humous, avocado, canellini bean dip etc.

4. Encourage kids to participate: get them to google a vegetarian recipe with things they like in it and then cook it together. In the same vein, buy vegetarian cookbooks with lots of pictures for them to get excited and choose stuff they like.

5. Vegetarian Pizza: yum.

6. Make a night of it: Find a local vegetarian restaurant and take the kids there.