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[quote=Anonymous]Chicken noodle soup can be extremely healthy if made from scratch because you can load it up with veggies and lean chicken. Perhaps you could make a vat on the weekend and freeze it?  If my kid ate a bowl of chicken soup for lunch every day I would be thrilled. You could also gradually expand too - minestrone, meatball soup with kale, chili, etc.

Also. Have you tried making food fun? Start a vegetable garden. Let him dig around in the soil and help you plant things (also gets him moving). Involve him in watering and weeding. When the veggies are ready I bet he will be excited to try "his" green beans or whatever you grew.

Pick apples in the fall. Join a CSA and let him "discover" what the veggies in the box are each week and maybe let him research how to cook them.

Visit a farmers market and let him choose the wackiest vegetable he can find, then try a recipe using his selection. This can be fun for everyone.

If he has siblings perhaps each child has a turn to select one veggie for dinner. Tonight is Bobby's corn on the cob, but tomorrow we get to have the zucchini you chose! Are you excited?

Will he eat Smoothies? A neon green smoothie appeals to this age group like no other. Banana,  ice, berries, some yogurt, and a handful of greens. Spinach and romaine are good ones to start with. The greens don't affect flavor,  just make it a crazy color. You can Google green smoothie recipes for more ideas.

Good luck![/quote]

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