My kids claim they don’t like courgette, mushrooms and onion, but that doesn’t stop them from eating these meatballs with sighs of pleasure. If there’s one thing I love in life, it’s fooling my kids into eating their veg. I don’t know why getting one over on them is so much fun, but now I think about it, I do seem to spend a fair amount of my time either fooling, fibbing or bribing them. Kids: ‘These meatballs are yummy mummy, what’re they made of?’ Me:‘erm, I’ll tell you later – eat them all up first’. Kids: ‘What’re those green speckles in them?’ (the courgette) Me: ‘Just a few herbs to give them flavour’ Kids: ‘Can I have another meatball mummy?’ Me: ‘Yes of course, I’ll pay you a meatball for emptying the dishwasher for me’. Kids: ‘two meatballs’ Me: ‘Deal’ Oh dear, that was fooling, fibbing and bribery all in the same conversation. I’m expecting my mother of the year award very soon…. Coming back to the meatballs, they feel like hearty, not-very-good-for-you comfort food. But they’re healthy! Yes, there’s cheese in there, but I use reduced fat cheese (the low fat mozzarella still stretches nicely). I’ll sometimes serve it with a mix of courgette spaghetti and regular spaghetti to make it even lighter, and it still goes down just as well (I could never forego my regular pasta completely, courgette spaghetti is great, but it is NOT real spaghetti). Do you fib to your kids to get them to eat things they say they don’t like? Anything I can use? 😀
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