Eat Your Greens: 15 Green Veggie-Packed Recipes to Serve Up on St. Patrick's Day


Updated 03/20/12 5:28 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

Kid Friendly Green Vegetable Recipes

Make your friends green with envy this St. Patrick's Day when your lil ones start eating peas and green beans. Sure, the day can be filled with tasty sweet treats — nevermind a Shamrock Shake or two — but it's also a great day to convince tots to eat their greens — green vegetables. We've rounded up our favorite kid-friendly green veggie recipes (including a spinach-packed ice cream) to Read more

Eat Your Greens: Rick Bayless's St. Patrick's Day Green Beans For Kids


Updated 08/08/11 1:54 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

Rick Bayless Balsamic Green Beans Recipe

Never thought you'd see your lil one pick up a green bean and eat it? Maybe it was never properly prepared! In honor of St. Patrick's Day, we're lining up a menu of green vegetable dishes that tots will actually want to eat! We asked award-winning chef, Top Chef Masters champion, and father of one Rick Bayless to share a tot-friendly green vegetable dish with us for the holiday. He's created a Read more

Eat Your Greens: Jessica Seinfeld's Green Veggie-Packed Recipes For Kids


Updated 08/08/11 1:56 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

Jessica Seinfeld's Spinach-Packed Ice Cream Recipe

When thinking of healthy veggie-packed meals for their kids, moms don't usually put mint chocolate chip ice cream on their list. That's because they haven't tried Jessica Seinfeld's version, which just happens to be made with spinach puree. The children's cookbook author and mother of three created a revolution in the kiddie food world with her vegetable purees that work their way into a variety Read more

Eat Your Greens: Weelicious Green Vegetable Recipes For Babies and Kids


Updated 08/08/11 1:56 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

Weelicious Green Vegetable Recipes For Kids

Greening up your St. Patrick's Day meal doesn't have to involve green food coloring. As we continue filling lil ones' plates with green vegetables for this week's holiday, we checked in with kiddie chef extraordinaire Catherine McCord, founder of Weelicious and mother of two, for some tot-friendly recipes. From veggie pops to some crispy, Italian-style asparagus, check out Catherine's green picks Read more

Eat Your Greens: Annabel Karmel's Green Vegetable Recipes For Babies and Kids


Updated 08/08/11 1:57 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

Annabel Karmel's Green Vegetable Recipes

Going green this St. Patrick's Day has more to do with your lil one's taste buds than their environmental awareness. Knowing that kids will do virtually anything to avoid putting a green vegetable in their mouths, we've asked some well-known chefs for green veggie recipes that won't have kids turning up their noses. Annabel Karmel is cooking recipes for all of the tots in the family, including a Read more

Recipes That Will Get Kids Eating Their Greens For St. Patrick's Day


Updated 03/04/11 10:55 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

Green Vegetable Recipes For Kids

Go green! St. Patrick's Day is fast approaching, so get lucky in the kitchen with your kids! The Irish holiday may conjure up memories of soda bread or corned beef, but hold the Guinness because we're using the green theme to get our lads and lasses to eat their veggies. Here are a few recipes that will kick off the celebration! Set your child's taste buds out to the Celtic Sea by baking up some Read more

Crispy Green Beans Are a Cunchy Snack and Tasty Side Dish


Updated 03/06/11 5:08 PM · Posted by LilSugar · 3 comments

Kid-Friendly Green Bean Recipe

Sometimes an accident can lead to an invention! I was baking some green beans yesterday, got occupied with my baby, and left the veggies in the oven too long. But the result was absolutely delicious so I made another tray to nosh on. This crispy snack requires just two ingredients and a few minutes to make. Kiddos will love the french fry texture of the veggies that mom can be served Read more

Eat Your Greens: Zucchini Boats Set Lil Taste Buds to Sea


Updated 03/17/10 3:02 PM · Posted by LilSugar · 1 comment

How to Get Child to Eat Zucchini

Happy St. Patrick's Day! The Irish holiday may conjure up memories of soda bread and corned beef, but hold the Guinness because we're using the green theme to get our wee lads and lasses to gobble up their veggies. Set your child's taste buds out to the Celtic Sea with an easy vegetable recipe that only requires two ingredients! The steps are so simple a tot can put their chef's hat on and get Read more

Lil Community: Eat Your Greens...Kale Chips


Updated 03/17/10 11:52 AM · Posted by · 1 comment

Lil Community: Eat Your Greens...Kale Chips

This post was submitted by lauren in The Children's Table group. Inspired by babysugar's series Eat your Greens, I decided to try to make Kale chips for my little niece. She is only a year and half, but I definitely want to try to expose her to a lot of different types of food. The chips themselves are really easy to make and only require a bit of olive oil, kale and a touch of salt. I used Read more

Eat Your Greens: Get Some Muscles From Brussels Sprouts


Updated 03/11/10 7:05 AM · Posted by babysugar · 0 comments

Tips for Getting Kids to Eat Vegetables

St. Patrick's Day may conjure up memories of Irish soda bread, corned beef, and pints of Guinness, but we're approaching the holiday from a different direction this year – an opportunity to get our kids to eat more green. We're taking five green vegetables and trying out different methods to get our tots to gobble them up. Brussels sprouts get a bad rap because they are often overcooked, which Read more