Pea soup in a glass, or how to fill your child with vitamins?

Pea soup in a glass, or how to fill your child with vitamins?
Pea soup in a glass, or how to fill your child with vitamins?
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pea soup
pea soup

They used to say that with a packed plate and a refrigerator, no child has yet died of hunger. Well, yes, but the children would live on cola, chocolate and similar delicacies if you let them.

And caring mothers want to introduce as many naturally occurring vitamins into their children's bodies as possible.

So the task is given: the child should eat a lot of vegetables and fruits. Okay, but how?

Agi gives tips in Poronty's kitchen.

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There is this vegetable thing, as the foundation of Hungarian and especially canteen cuisine. Even if the family likes it, it can get really boring after a while. That's when you need to innovate a little, for example, bake some sort of casserole with minced meat, rice or potatoes and a kilo of other vegetables: kale, sauerkraut, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower. Zucchini, mushrooms, carrots and parsley root are best sold by mixing them into the meatball mass - even the same amount of vegetables can be smuggled onto the plate in this way as there is meat. What's more, you can even create meatballs and croquettes from the vegetables themselves, so even the cooked vegetables left out of the soup can be recycled in a great way. If we don't have that much time for cooking, then it's time to renew the pasta sauces and mix garlic, carrots, zucchini, and eggplant into the Milanese sauce. Corn, peas, cauliflower and leeks go well with the cream cheese sauce. If we also use fresh herbs and sprouts to flavor them, then we really enrich our diet with a large amount of earthly goodness.

celery soup
celery soup

Introducing and popularizing cream soups can lead to similarly good results, as their main ingredient is actually vegetables and they can be produced in extremely interesting color combinations. The orange of the pumpkin or the carrot, the green of the broccoli and the pea or even the pink of the beet can be fun for children. However, it is worth tossing these up with a little grated cheese or cream. And if we pack a handful of diced, toasted bread cubes or ready-made soup pearls into it, we hope that not only the soup filling will end up on the spoon, but also the precious juice.

And if the crumbs have such a minimalist taste as mine, then the mother can have a really easy job. I simply take carrots, peppers, kohlrabi, cucumbers and cut them into nice, long strips. And they enthusiastically crunch it, or dip it in a curd or tuna spread.

With fruits, it is best to just bite into the skin and reach the children's stomachs, but there are a couple of tricks that can be used here as well. First of all, for example, fruit salad, or alcohol-free juice drained from it, which can be emitted by any individual living within one meter, compared to plain peeled fruits. Although I have seen a child who was upset that apples and pineapples were mixed up.

mushroom soup
mushroom soup

As it is also mixed in the milkshake, which can also be filled with almost anything. If bananas are included, it will be very sweet anyway, you don't even need to add sugar. If your family likes it, you can even make these drinks with oat or rice milk, or skip the dairy product altogether and proudly present the new American craze, the smoothie. The latter is nothing more than blended fruits, usually sweetened and thickened with bananas. If you offer it with whipped cream and a straw, it will be hard to resist.

You can replace store-bought soft drinks with cheap and vitamin-rich homemade iced tea and lemonade. If you add a lemon or two orange juice, it becomes a real he alth bomb. With a handful of mint leaves, we can stuff a lot of trace elements down everyone's throats. And in the meantime, no one feels that they have to suffer for a he althy lifestyle.

Ági, the author of the Ági fóz blog

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