Must be tricky for picky eaters!
Posted By: nana on 2007-11-16
In Reply to: Healthy meals for fussy 7-10 YO sm - Survivor
No child has ever turned this down. My cousin's son would not eat anything except four or five foods and she bet me he wouldn't eat it. You have to give them five bucks to "try it" and they keep eating it (at first they say it is just "okay", but will eat it anyway. I don't know why, it seems like it could be something yucky to some of them because it does have broccoli in it. They ate that too after having it served a few times.
Denise's Casserole
One large can of white chicken or two small cans drained.
Two boxes of Noodles Romanoff or similar from Noodle Roni - Prepared.
A bunch of broccoli and use only the "little trees" - wash, rinse and put in glass dish 13 x 9 or so and add a half cup of water. Steam in microwave about 3 minutes. Drain.
One small box Velveeta "grated" (it is soft, so that term is used loosely)
Mix noodles and chicken with a wooden spoon. Salt and pepper a little.
Move broccoli to the side and then Pam spray the 13 x 9 casserole dish and space out broccoli evenly in the bottom of the pan. Spread prepared noodles mixed with the canned white chicken over the broccoli. Cover it up!
Place Velveeta over all and bake in a 325-350 degree oven for about 25-30 minutes until bubbly.
Tell them at first that they only have to eat one tree. Next time, two. It worked with all my kids, with all my relatives' kids, and others. They start to like it and I let them help bake it. If they make it they are proud, so they will taste it. Branch out into other stuff slowly. My husband and I got tired of them wanting this three times a week, but it worked.
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Another thing, if they like spaghetti you can grate vegetables and put them in the sauce. Start out small.
You can also add grated potato and carrot to ground round with maybe some rice and grated onion (if you grate it they can't see it as well), eggs, etc. to make meatballs. Use cream sauce if they don't like tomato based sauce, like the jarred Alfredo sauce, or make your own with cream and parmesan.
Good luck.
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