OT- HEALTHY recipes for kids

Okay, I'll build this from another post... Gibby and I just got back from meeting with a dietician this morning. Gibby turned 9 yesterday. He weighs 113 pounds and is 54 inches tall.

I love him to death! But his nickname, Gibby, is cause he looks and acts like Gibby on iCarly. He's just a cute, round little thing. (Like his mama!)

But the dietician told us we are on the right track. Limit portions. Watch sweets. Push fruits and veggies. Get exercise. The idea at this point is to maintain, and just let him catch-up as he grows taller.

She suggested "hiding" veggies in his other foods by using food purees or baby foods.

Any suggestions?

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I think there is a cookbook

I think there is a cookbook out from Seinfeld's wife on hiding the healthy stuff.

I've seen adding pureed

I've seen adding pureed veggies to lasagna work well. thesneakychef.com has some good ideas

I find adding veggies to

I find adding veggies to anything with tomato sauce works well. Lasagna, Spaghetti, Ziti, ect.

It's easy to hide stuff

It's easy to hide stuff (veggies) in spaghetti sauce and most kids love spaghetti. You can even buy the healthier noodles that they have available now.

I usually mix about a cup of TVP (texturized vegetable protein) in with whatever ground meat I'm using - pork, beef, turkey season it up well and my family has no clue. I dice up some onion, bell pepper sometimes a little shredded carrot or finely diced zucchini in with the sauce and you've snuck in some extra nutrition.

I also use TVP in the taco meat.

You can also sneak healthy things into muffins.

Oh Zucchini !!! we love it

Oh Zucchini !!! we love it at our house. Fried, steamed, simmered with onions, peppers, garlic and olive oil. But one of our favorites is zucchini pancakes. they are more of a fritter.

Another trick might be to

Another trick might be to masquerade other food as the spaghetti. You could see whether Gibby takes to this Summer Squash Noodle recipe.

As far as healthy noodles, I found that the whole wheat spaghetti from Trader Joe's is pretty good and can pass as normal spaghetti. However, I don't like the whole wheat linguini or penne as much, because they have kind of a rough, sandpaper-y texture.