Georgina Hayden’s healthy budget dishes for kids – recipes

Vegetables that your kids will (hopefully) wolf down: red pepper, kidney bean and coconut rice, and a playful mushroom, mustard and cheddar quiche Cooking for kids can be the biggest meal battleground: one day, they’ll eat something you have lovingly made with gusto, only to push it away the next (or throw it on the floor – we’ve all been there). Then there is the question of vegetables: there seems to be no rhyme or reason as to which ones are in favour at any given moment. The key thing I have learned is that if you involve them in the process, the likelihood of them eating a dish – or at least trying it – is much greater. Today’s coconut rice is a great example of an inexpensive meal they can help with, while the quiche is the baking equivalent of messy play: rolling, dusting, grating … Mushrooms aren’t the easiest sell to my little ones, at least, so making them cheesy and playful works wonders. UK readers: click to buy these ingredients from Ocado UK readers: click to buy these ingredients from Ocado Georgina Hayden’s latest book, Nistisima: The Secret to Delicious Vegan Cooking from the Mediterranean and Beyond, is published by Bloomsbury at £26. To order a copy for £22.62, go to guardianbookshop.com. Continue reading...
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