Lentils! Help me get my kids to eat them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw th article OP, but my stomach cannot handle them. I cannot imagine any American kid eating them. Are you an immigrant or kid of immigrants?

You must not know many American kids. Are you an immigrant, PP?

[Anonymous]

Could you just add them to other things, like sloppy joes or meat sauce but half lentils and half meat? Too much can be an overwhelming odd texture. Chili. Other thick soups.

[Anonymous]

https://www.spendwithpennies.com/lentil-sloppy-joes/

Haven’t tried this yet but ketchup usually gets my kids to eat things. Also you could do half ground beef to start.

[Anonymous]

Eh you might just have to accept that your kids aren't going to like everything you like regardless of how nutionally rich it is.

Surely you have taste differences with, for example, your DH, a close friend colleague etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw th article OP, but my stomach cannot handle them. I cannot imagine any American kid eating them. Are you an immigrant or kid of immigrants?

What a bizarre statement. Immigrants are Americans. Italian-American and Greek-Americans have been eating lentils in the US for over 100 years at this point.

Some ways our 5 year old happily eats lentils:

Chili with lentils
Lentil sloppy joes
Mujedderah
Veggie tacos with lentils
Veggie shepherds pie
Nachos
Spaghetti squash bowls (halved and roasted - topped with chili lentils and cheese)

That PP was a bigoted jerk to say that but my husband can’t eat lentils anymore (I’ll spare you the primary symptom), and 2/3 of my kids don’t eat lentils, so I am condemned to a mostly lentil-free existence.

For a non-vegetarian meal that 1/3 of my children liked, photocopied from a recent recipe book (that I can’t remember the name of): One Pan Sausage and Lentils. The short and simplified version is thin slice four stalks of celery, chop a shallot and drop them plus 4 c chicken broth, 2 c brown or green lentils and 1/2 t salt into a 9x13 glass pan. Then to fix the ungodly long cook time I’d cover that and let those soften up at 450, then add a pound of sausage on top, scored. You’re supposed to make a a quick pickled mustard and shallot thing but my husband accidentally threw away the pickling shallots and it was great without. (And I am really wishing I could just tell you what book this was from!)

[Anonymous]

We like the Annie’s lentil
Soup over rice. I do drain it slightly before putting over the rice. 5 min dinner for the win.