How to sneak fruits and veggies into a child’s diet

Children can be fussy eaters. It's hard to get them to eat what they should eat, like fruits and veggies. Children may eat fruit and veggies if they are offered in a different form.

A lot of veggies can be changed from one form to another to hide them or cover their taste and get a child to eat them. Sometimes we have to play hide-and-seek with veggies and fruit.

If a child likes meatballs or hamburgers, it's a great place to put shredded carrots or shredded broccoli. They get the nutrients and never taste the vegetables.

If you're child likes french fries, try using sweet potatoes for a change.

You can puree carrots into spaghetti sauce. And add pureed squash to macaroni and cheese. Also, cauliflower can be cooked and mashed into potatoes.

The same things can be done with fruit. If a child likes jello, add small pieces of fruit to it. Cooked apples or shredded carrots can be added to cake mixes. A lot of things can be added to muffins or hidden in brownies.

Bananas can be put on a stick and frozen. After they are frozen they can be dipped in chocolate and rolled in nuts for a treat. Strawberries can be dipped in chocolate and apples can be dipped in caramel.
Make fruit kabobs with melons and grill them. Or grill pineapples.

Horizon has created new Little Blends yogurt for kids to help get them to eat their fruit and veggies. Feed the Baby is a game you can play and earn a coupon.

Horizon and TwitterMoms are giving the first 100 bloggers to write about sneaking fruit and veggies into a child's diet, a Thermos snack jar to keep their cool snacks fresh for on-the-go, plus a coupon off Horizon’s new Little Blends yogurt.

Participants will also receive a second prize pack to give away to one of their own readers. That's going to be one of you.