Recently we have had to come up with more ways to sneak healthy veggies into our diet… Usually a big fan of fresh green salads and raw veggies, recently during the first trimester of my pregnancy I (Carlie) have gone completely off these types of foods and been craving more starchy, carby, type of foods (like many other pregnant mama’s commonly do!)
Combine this with coming up with creative ways for our almost-two-year old daughter to enjoy more veggies and a wide variety of foods, and we have been putting our creativity to the test.
We will add the full recipes to the Members Area however here are three SUPER EASY and QUICK ways you can ‘sneak’ more veggies into your diet if you find yourself (or children) in the same predicament.
1. Green Pancakes
These were an easy addition to our usual Banana Pancakes Recipe, and our daughter absolutely LOVES them 🙂
Simply add a handful of fresh baby spinach leaves to your blender when blending up the wet mixture of your Banana Pancakes and you won’t even taste them!
(Quick Version of the recipe: Throw a couple of Ripe Bananas, Handful of Baby Spinach Leaves, 1-2 Free Range Eggs and a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil into your blender / food processor and blitz until completely smooth. Then pour into a bowl and mix in the dry Gluten Free Self Raising Flour of your choosing and stir to desired consistency, then pop on the saucepan with extra virgin olive oil or coconut oil and cook! TIP: To make vegan (or if you run out of eggs like we recently did!) substitute the eggs for a few scoops of Chia Seeds instead. These were DELICIOUS! Serve with butter and raw honey 🙂 Enjoy!)
2. Green Smoothie
This is an oldie but a goodie. These days with all of the high powered blenders on the market (like the Vitamix or a Nutribullet or similar) it is easy to throw all kinds of veggies into your smoothie and you literally won’t even taste them. Like even carrots and harder vegetables which normally wouldn’t blend. (Gone are the days of chunky bits hanging around Thank God!). Taste-test your blends and if you need to, add more honey to sweeten or to make creamy add in unhulled Tahini or organic pure peanut butter etc.
(Quick Recipe: Add 1 banana, 1 handful of baby spinach leaves, 1/2 Tray of Ice, 1 Scoop Purest on the Planet Protein Powder, 1/2 Tsp Super Greens Powder, 1 Scoop Cacao, 1 Tbs Organic Unhulled Tahini & 1 Tbs Raw Honey or more if preferred, add water to just below top of contents to keep it a nice consistency. Blitz and Blend until smooth + Enjoy! 🙂
3. Smooth Veggie Scrambled Eggs
This one is another one of our daughter Skyla’s favourites. Throw a couple of eggs in the blender, along with what ever veggies you fancy (for example, a handful of baby spinach leaves, a few mushrooms, tomato, zucchini, fresh herbs, etc). Blitz until absolutely smooth with no chunks. Pour into the saucepan and either scramble up or just sit with the lid on at a low heat and cook like a soufflé. Serve with sprinkling of Pink Himalayan sea salt and cracked pepper. This magical recipe completely disguises all of the vegetables and tastes delicious!
We are in the process of filming more recipe vids which we will add to the Members Area shortly so stay tuned!
Feel free to share this post with any other fussy vegetable eaters (or their Mummies and Daddies! 😉
Do you have any delicious recipes to share? If so make sure you leave us a comment below.
Have a wonderful day and we will see you soon,
🙂
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