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[quote=Anonymous]Oh, OP, I feel for you.  I am still battling to get more veggies into my finicky five-year-old.  If your DS will eat muffins, try these:

http://www.fitsugar.com/Banana-Smoothie-Muffin-Recipe-29204287

I cut the sugar to 1/3 cup, make these as mini muffins, and put three or four chocolate chips on top of each muffin before they go into the oven.  I told DS that I used green food coloring (it helped, I think, that he'd just done a food coloring "science experiment" and understood how food coloring worked) -- the spinach makes them bright, Kermit-style green.  But they are delicious and do not taste of green, even a little bit.  He loves them, and often takes one in his lunch to school.  (And before you uppity DCUMers without picky kids get all up in arms that a muffin is not a veggie, I know.  I'm certainly not suggesting that eating one of these muffins is the same as downing a plate of kale.  But it is a food product that my son will consume with green vegetable matter inside.  That's all I was looking for at the time I found this recipe.)

Also, OP, you mentioned zucchini muffins -- I make those too, but peel the zucchini, shred it, and then coarse chop it.  It virtually eliminates the green bits.  [/quote]

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