Request for Disguised Veggie Recipes!

For your daughter, zarq, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHDCz-nJC8Y. It's the hail mary pass of vegetable warfare.

You can hide a huge amount of zucchini in chocolate cake. There are tons of recipes online...I don't remember which one I made a couple years ago, but it was good and you can't see the zucchini bits because of the chocolate. Very moist. Would it help your daughter if she saw a video of a cute dog eating cauliflower? Because it's my dog's favorite non-cheese treat and I can arrange that.

I have a lot of food allergies and I'm allergic to tons and tons of fruits and vegetables. I take a handful of vitamins every day to supplement my diet and I would honestly just suggest that for your daughter as well. Vitamins plus fruit (which she eats) and broccoli (which she eats!) puts her way ahead of most of the world in nutrient consumption.

Would she be at all amenable to trying new things in a special setting? Going out for Ethiopian food might be just unusual enough (you eat with your haaaaands!) to encourage her to attempt a vegetable. Worst case scenario she has to sit and be sad while the rest of her family enjoys a delicious meal.

http://www.healthyfoodforliving.com/sweet-potato-mac-cheese-cups-toddler-approved/ But the big hit in our house (for adults and kids alike), are http://www.superhealthykids.com/power-puff-pancakes/. Pink, because beets! You wouldn't believe how delicious these are, and you'd never guess there's beets! Not so great with maple syrup, but a gentle spindle of icing sugar on top makes them even better. You can find frozen shredded/pureed beets to cut down on some of the kitchen messiness.

Since she likes fruit, cut up some jicama into french-fry size and serve it along with some oranges or whatever. (Don't let her see it http://bonnieplants.com/wp-content/uploads/jicama-web.jpg!) It also pairs great with corn. If she eats beef and likes hamburgers, you can fill patties up with various veggies, and you might even manage a boca burger or other veggieburger - as long as you don't call it that, of course. Also you can encourage her to make her own choices by presenting her with a very attractive traditional array of burger toppings complete with plenty of vegetable choices. If she's really into imaginative play and pretending and she has even a small interest in fairies or other magical creatures, she might be enticed to sample leaves with an open mind through a berries, edible flowers & herb salad. (Then you eat the leftovers all fancy with a nice piece of fish.) Young kids & some people for their whole lives are much more sensitive to bitterness and texture than others. This is for survival reasons (bitter = poison! kids are smaller, more susceptible, etc.) Anyway, my mom's like this and always has been. Her whole life has been forcing herself to eat vegetables. As a little kid, seeing my mom struggle to eat her own peas made me thrilled to eat my own. She also taught me that she always tries a food she doesn't like "seven times" before she can really decide she hates it, and that was what I had to do, too. Seven times, about a month apart for each when we remembered. There are now only two foods I can think of that I really won't eat (natto and yellow squash) and my mom is handling her not-quite-diabetes really well with a constantly but slowly increasing array of vegetables that she likes, even in her 60s. So basically, this is an ongoing process and it might be good to focus on learning to give things a fair chance and keeping an open mind about food rather than (or probably in addition to) lots of carrot apple smoothies. Even if it is just a phase for your kid (like my own pickiness was) it really helped me to know I had control over what I ate, as long as I gave things an honest chance once in a while.

cauliflower hides inside of mashed potatoes really well.

Hang on, if the reason she's supposed to be eating more vegetables is to avoid excessive weight gain, is disguising them in chocolate cake really going to help? I admit soup could be great, though. You've probably already thought of this, but how about giving her a lot of control over how and when she eats them, and which vegetables she eats? Maybe present her with a big poster of lots of colorful vegetables like http://www.theotherbranch.co.uk/item.php?pro=NPOVE or http://popchartlab.com/products/the-various-varieties-of-vegetables, and make a big chart for her to list her ratings of flavor, texture, color, etc., so that she has a chance to notice differences between them AND make something really cool. Let her choose which ones to try next. Maybe she'll find something she unexpectedly likes, either something new or something she hadn't considered scientifically before. I realize this isn't your question (and I'm not a parent, just someone who remembers being a kid), but it's an approach to consider if you haven't yet... Plus, it could teach a little about the world and how research is done :)

I'm not sure I'd spend tirme on mashed potatoes -- it's almost a bread. Not sure how much effort cauliflower is worth, but you'd know more than I would; it at least has fiber. Have you tried edamame? I'd try making it very salty at first, and letting her enjoy popping the soybeans out of the casings. Have you considered introducing her to gardening? There's nothing like growing vegetables yourself. Also: pickles? Or just vinegar on fresh vegetables? I used to love anything with vinegar on it when I was a kid.