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I feel like I need to favourite this to feed my HUSBAND!!!! He likes his meat but not veggies!

I love paleo recipes. We did a pizza on a cauliflower crust and cauliflower rice. I LOVE the 3 ingredient pancakes (sunbutter, eggs, and banana). Salsa is huge in our house and we obliterate it so it is small chunks. I love kale chips and he eats them too.

For him (he is 2) it is really hit or miss. One day he will eat everything and the next nothing at all. Then he will eat only meat and then only veggies or fruit. So I just keep offering.

My son loves meat and will eat only meat if given the option so that isn't a problem for us. We also don't eat much in the way of carbs (because I am a carb lover). He is so happy with us when he gets bread.

I need some ideas too! LO refuses most fruits and lots of dairy. I try to cook scrambled eggs (which she loves) and throw in cheese and veggies. We have been buying fruit pouches and even those are hard to get her to eat!

@Mrs. Jump Rope: LO always digs out the raisins from her oatmeal, and once she's done finding her nuggets, she's "all done"! grrr

The best way is in pasta sauce. I try to make my own sauce and puree carrots and onions into the sauce and finely mince veggies and meat. Seems to work!

LO is same age (almost 16 months) and has recently gotten more selective. She loves to dip her food, though, so we can usually entice her to eat something if we give her (or she finds...) something to dip it in. It makes for some interesting combinations -- shrimp dipped in yogurt?

@locavore_mama: Just what it sounds like. One egg about a tablespoon of nut or seed butter and one banana. Mix it up and cook on the grill. I think you could make it with sweet potato instead of/ or with the banana. It is delicious.

One day my son didn't want eggs so I made eggs in a basket. You cut a whole in the bread and cook the egg inside it. He ate it that way.

We also do zuchini and sweet potato hash browns.

I am not a big veggie eater so we blend veggies to add to things.

My LO pretty much loves to eat healthy, so I dont need to do much. Its just that she doesnt like milk, but she loves cheese and yogurt so it makes up for it.

When do you introduce raisins/other dried fruit? @locavore_mama: @Mrs. Jump Rope:

LO is just 12 months but still isn't picky about her food, so she eats pretty much anything healthy we put in front of her. She likes steamed eggs better than scrambled, so that might improve the texture situation! Mrs. Bee posted about steamed eggs awhile back.

She'll eat almost anything if she has something to dip it in, like olive oil, lemon juice or hummus.

So creative!! Great post!!

I tried making quiche too but he isn't a big fan of it. I should try it again but it was so much work especially when he doesn't eat one bite at the end!

We have a problem with leafy greens, and red meat like beef. He eats broccoli and beans, and carrots on good days. He usually eats baked chicken thighs with paprika (I'd add paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, basil, parsley, wrap in foil and bake 30 mins in a 400F oven, flip the chicken halfway or it gets burned on one side), and a hit and miss with meatballs and brown sugar meatloaf. Also hit and miss with baked salmon. On top of that LO is not a great eater... maybe he eats well 50% of the time, and the rest he plays and barely eats.

I make Mrs Bee's pancakes with sweet potatoes and zucchini, and I add milk and a box of blueberries and it has been a winner 85% of the time.

Then nowadays I cut spinach and arugula leaves very small and mix it with watermelon and makes it a salad. I add some olive oil to it. He eats it, and maybe half that green leaves get stuck onto watermelons.

Then this may sound gross but it has been saving my day. Usually if he doesn't eat broccoli and veggies, or anything really, off his plate at dinner, I'd take out a cup of yobaby yogurt, and start tricking him by putting a bit of the leftover food mixed in with the yogurt and spoon feed him (thank god he still takes spoon feed). This sweeps up a big portion of leftover food many times! hehe.

I also bought these cute food stencils and cut funny shapes out of food. There was one day he had a huge breakfast (we ate breakfast together at a restaurant at almost 9am, and we gave him his lunch at 11:30am before his nap!), and he didn't feel like eating lunch. I sat down and cut out shapes with his bread and cheese, and he gobbled them up when he sees them. teehee

@locavore_mama: I did! I made the green smoothie I read about on here... it has peas, kale, banana, strawberries, all the good stuff. He doesn't want to do anything with it! I drank the whole thing myself afterall. Argh.

Do you have any good recipes that you had success with that you don't mind sharing?

@locavore_mama: Thanks! I'll try that ..... I have a bad feeling though (that I'll be drinking all that green all by myself). LOL. I think I need to buy a smoothies cup that has a big straw and isn't see through so he doesn't see what he's drinking. haha

For smoothies, LO is totally more interested in eating it if he gets to help make it. That's true for other things as well- he's way more likely to eat scrambled eggs if he gets to use the spatula to move them around the pan a couple of times.

For meat and some veggies, dips make a difference. We have the rule that if you dip your food in something, you can't just lick off the dip or we take the dip away; you have to eat a bite. That's helpful.

For extra protein I'll mix silky tofu into smoothies or yogurt and LO never knows the difference.
LO will sometimes eat things off my plate that he wouldn't try if I stuck them on his plate- a lot of the time he'll take one bite and not want anymore, but it's a useful trick for getting him to just try something new if I think he'll actually like it.

I can puree anything and stick it under the cheese layer of a homemade pizza, so that works for getting some leafy greens in (not a lot, but better than nothing).