Quicklinks
Posted by kathryn in Vegetables
- How to get your kid to eat salad: More from the Great Big Vegetable Challenge. This time a successful strategy for encouraging children to eat salad.
- Potassium: A good little summary of why we need potassium – yet more reasons to eat vegies.
- Grated carrot and beetroot salad: This week Chocolate & Zucchini posted a beautiful recipe for grated carrot and beetroot salad. It’s easy, there are options to provide variety and look at the colour.
- Supplements: An interesting perspective on supplements at Nutraingredients: do we ask too much?.
- Eating cookies: I’ve only recently come across the blog It must have been something I ate, and this is a lovely post about embracing your inner cookie monster. A balanced and realistic approach to “treats”.
- Gorgeous looking recipes: The Guardian is focused on meat-free eating this month. Among the information are some gorgeous looking recipes from Yotam Ottolenghi.
Photograph by Michael Newman under the terms of a creative commons license.
14 March, 2008
Comments
I’ve finally got around to visiting the Guardian site you recommended for the vegetarian recipes. They do indeed look terrific and I will be trying a number of them soon. Particularly liked Yotam Ottolenghi’s (male/female?) introductory comments to each recipe.
Thanks!
Jennifer, I’ve never heard of Yotam Ottolenghi – but aren’t the recipes glorious.
the the great big vegetable challenge – I think this is a really interesting site and should get more attention than the spat over the jesssica seinfeld cookbook. I saw this article today and thought you might find it interesting – I think the whole idea of disguising vegetables is questionable and was glad to see others questioning it (also saw an article by Mark Bittman questioning it in the new york times (?) recently)
http://www.theage.com.au/news/epicure/getting-kids-to-eat-veggies—the-sneaky-way/2008/03/11/1205125903860.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1
Thanks for the link Johanna. I’ve seen some of the reports about Jessica Seinfeld’s book. While I think disguising vegetables can be useful, it’s only ever a short-term band-aid. Ultimately you want kids to get the lesson that vegetables are part of a healthy normal meal. And you can’t do that if you’re hiding them.
Trouble is, many adults haven’t got that lesson yet either.
I haven’t read the Bittman article, so I’ll have a hunt around for that.
I love the Great Big Vegetable Challenge – they’ve been trying samphire this week. I’ve never eaten samphire. Let alone tried to feed it to a child! It’s an impressive project and Charlotte Hume – the mother behind the Great Big Veg Challenge – has just announced she’s got a book deal.
I was so happy to find your website today while “stumbling!” I own a company in the San Francisco Bay Area that offers healthy and seasonal cooking classes for children. I love Charlotte’s website and Great Big Vegetable Challenge that she did with her family. What a fun way to celebrate vegetables (without hiding them!).
I look forward to returning to your site to see your thoughts about kids and nutrition in the future! Thanks.
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