Home-Made Food In Disguise

Making healthy and delicious foods for kids seems to be not enough these days. You also have to package them, disguise them and, at times, do some major marketing to get them to eat. That is the case with my kids and some foods anyways.

Take smoothies, for example. Cherry, banana, coconut yogurt and coconut milk (see the image). Yum! Give it to my kids in a glass, or cup and they’ll turn their noses. Put it into an empty, clean Nano bottle and they’ll drink 3 at a time! And as a bonus – tell them it’s unhealthy, and they’ll ask for even more!

I’ve started “hacking” not just the Nano bottles for smoothies, but granola bars wrapping paper/boxes, cookie boxes, the Made Good balls pouches, to add a few.

I don’t want my kids eating store bought items like these. I don’t believe they are healthy. So I make my own healthy versions of these things. The problem is, they don’t seem to want them … unless, of course, they think I got in a store and it’s “unhealthy,” because to them “unhealthy” equates to tasty.

Our society has done a great job training our kids’ taste buds with all the added sugar and salt!  It’s our job, to retrain them!