Healthy Lunches for Toddlers & Preschoolers

It can be difficult to get children to eat their veggies! Young children should eat 1 cup of raw or cooked veggies each day. This sounds like so much for a tot to eat, but it can be easily done if you split up the veggies throughout the day.

Spinach Added to Spaghetti Sauce Makes for a Tasty Lunch!

One way I like to get my children to eat their veggies is through green smoothies. You can find my favorite recipe for Organic Green Smoothies here. Dark green leafy vegetable like spinach and kale are so good for you and green smoothies with delicious sweet berries is a great way to mask these greens for the pickiest eaters!

Here are some of my other favorite ways to incorporate vegetables into my kids lunches:

• Add frozen mixed vegetables to macaroni and cheese

• Add spinach to spaghetti sauce and serve with small noodles

• Roll turkey breast, cheese, and finely chopped carrots and broccoli in a tortilla

• Sprinkle shredded carrots and thinly sliced cucumbers on a cheese sandwich 

• Roll up turkey breast with a romaine lettuce leaf

• Freeze small servings of vegetable soup to pull out for a quick lunch 

• Try breakfast for lunch. Scramble eggs and cheese with red, yellow, and green peppers and roll up in a tortilla

 I hope you enjoy some of these quick and easy ways to incorporate veggies into your kid's lunches!