Veggies? What Veggies?

So I may be the meanest mother ever or the sneakiest ever. I have found that my kids plates are cleared in this order.

1)milk

2) fruit

3) cheese

4) meat

5) They try to get more milk

6) if they have room(which they rarely do) - veggies

This is not good for a mother to see. All of those abandoned vegetables full of nutrients just lying there waiting to be eaten. Only to be thrown away in the trash after drying out and sticking to the plate. What a waste! I do have to say that Danielle is much better at eating veggies than Carley.

I recently dusted off a cook book that I should have been using all along. It is called Deceptively Delicious. It hides different fruits and veggie purees into the food your kids eat on a normal day. I go in phases with this book. I started out super excited and steamed and pureed everything in site to hide in the kids food. That gets to be a lot of work and I just don't have the time. So the cookbook was banished for a while until just 2 days ago.

Here is a picture of the girls eating the pudding that I made. Danielle just kept saying how good it was and ate the whole thing. Little did she know that the main ingredient is......here it comes.......avocado!

hahahaha!

I even liked it. You can't taste the avocado at all if you eat it warm. Do not(I repeat) Do NOT eat it cold. Just nasty!

I pretty much giggled the whole time they ate it.

Here is the recipe if you want to trick your kids into eating some avocado.

Chocolate Pudding

1/4 cup trans fat free margarine spread

1 cup avocado puree (just put the avocado guts into a food processor and blend until really smooth)

1 cup confectioners sugar ( as I am typing this I realized that I used 1 cup regular sugar)

1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

1 tsp vanilla extract

1/8 cup cornstarch

In a medium saucepan, melt margarine over low heat. Stir in avocado, sugar, cocoa, and vanilla. Cook until mixture thickens 3 to 4 minutes. Off the heat, gradually stir in cornstarch. SERVE WARM! Yum-o