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I still can't get her to eat veggies. I hate how much food goes to waste. She won't even put in her mouth to try it. Even if it is had ketchup on the broccoli.

Lately R is really into meat. Chicken sausage, turkey kielbasa, and turkey hot dogs are her favorites. Rice and plain white bread for her carb.

DD1 LOVES roasted broccoli & cauliflower, saute green beans is also a favorite. I put spinach in quiche. I just discovered the first leafy green she'll eat which is a chinese vegetable. Not sure what the english name is.

I always keep dumplings on hand because it's a quick lunch for her. We also almost always have homemade stock in the freezer. I keep it in takeout quart containers. Then with some shrimp and I make a quick shrimp noodle soup for her.

If I cover the veggies in a "sauce" she will eat them. So say we have spaghetti, I can mix in some green beans/carrot strands/ect. and she will eat it because she's not paying attention to the fact they aren't noodles.

She will eat corn & potatoes (neither of which I don't really consider veggies, more of a starch) and green beans are hit and miss. She loves zucchini and squash, so I try to put those in the mix a lot. She is hit and miss on peppers.

LO eats pretty much whatever we are eating, unless it's too spicy/or shredded meat (she always spits it out) and then I usually do frozen turkey meatballs, lunchmeat, natural chicken nuggets, ect. with whatever sides we are having.

@LuLu Mom: R won't eat R red, so I have no way to sneak them in.

I always sneak veggies into the quesadilla! She loves black bean and cheese quesadillas and I like to add some spinach in there and she's none the wiser! Otheriwse, I consistently offer her what we are eating at dinner time but she usually only eats the protien and gets a small serving of yogurt befoRe bed. I assume that if shes hungry enough, she will eat what I give her. Breakfast and lunch always contain the few fruits and veggies that I know for a fact she will eat, as does her snack so I don't really worry too much if she won't eat it at dinner.

If I mix spinach or kale in his scrambled eggs he eats them. We also do green smoothies which he LOVES. And he likes to dip things a LOT so we do broccoli with ketchup etc., and sometimes can get him to eat green beans with ketchup. But he will always eat corn, carrots, broccoli, peas and pouches with veggies.

We have the opposite issue and he won't eat much of the protein. He is anti-meat lately!

Weelicious (website and cookbooks) have a lot of great toddler friendly recipes that give you different ways to give kids veggies. My kids love the black bean cakes, spinach ricotta bites, "fried" green beans, potato pea cakes, turkey meatloaf bites, to name a few. When I make something from Weelicious, I usually double the recipe and freeze the extra (so I know I always have a kid friendly veggie side dish on hand).

we're still working on the veggies but she'll do them small dice sometimes. her favorite things are turkey dogs, mac and cheese, and your typical processed meats like sausages and bacon. She likes ground meat of all kinds and if i make them into a patty. She'll also eat slices of grilled chicken, but ground beef seems to be her favorite. I think? It changes every week. I don't mind throwing a "toddler meal" at her a couple times a week, but I try to limit it because I don't want to become hostage to them Noodles of all kinds, too! With all sorts of flavorings on top.

@blackbird: last time we had tacos, she ate her shells and wouldn't touch the ground beef. Till I gave her a chip and she could scoop it up and eat off the chip. She ate two scoop fulls before she would eat the chip. Kids are weird.

Fave meals:
tortellini with cheese or meat (I buy bertolli brand)
whole wheat pasta with kale or spinach pesto (he loves this and it gets a ton of veggies in him)
quesadillas with cheese, chopped chicken, and chopped spinach
roast chicken and sweet potato fries
sauteed chicken or steak, cut into small pieces, mixed with rice and onions

Basically, I try to mix in veggies whenever i can!

@blackbird: R does the same thing. When I maker her a turkey sandwich, she eats the bread, then the cheese, and then the turkey. but she won't touch it together.

We have a veggie hater at the moment but I make Weelicious spinach pancakes for snack and she devours them.

@travelgirl1: it's another weelicious recipe!
http://weelicious.com/2013/01/07/kale-pesto-the-easiest-kale-recipe/

Also these muffins are great: http://laurassweetspot.com/2013/07/16/popeye-muffins/

My DH likes them, LO begs for them all the time. I think they are okay but they are like a whole serving of veggies in them so works for me!

And fwiw, we aren't "sneaking" them in. LO helps me make them! So that helps the guilt a bit.