Monday, 15 August 2011

• Want Your Kids to Eat Their Veggies? Make Them into Sneaky Ice Pops!

  

  My four-year old daughter, Snugglebug, has a medical condition. The condition itself isn't important for the purposes of this post, but being the natural healing fan I am, I was really excited to hear from a holistic mama that carrot juice may help alleviate the condition.
  
  The big challenge, of course, is figuring out how to get my kid to drink carrot juice. I love my juicer, but for some reason, my little princess isn't impressed with it.
  
  So, like any desperate mama trying to force-feed her kid something good for her, I got sneaky. I turned the carrot juice into sweet ice pops, and now Snugglebug can't get enough of them. I've been serving them for dessert all week!

  
  
  
  
  Here's what I did:
  
  Carrot "Yogurt" Pops
  
  Ingredients:
  

  • 3 carrots
  • 2 apples
  • 1 banana
  • 1 c. vegan vanilla soy yogurt

  You'll also need:
  

  • a juicer
  • a blender

  Directions:
  

  1. With your juicer, juice carrots and apple.
  2. In a blender, puree banana until smooth. Add yogurt and carrot-apple juice to blender pitcher and blend all until well-mixed.
  3. Pour into ice pop molds and freeze.

  Tip: If frozen pops are difficult to remove from molds, run some hot water over the outside of the molds, until the pops slide out easily.
  
  

  
  To all of our Healthkicking parents: do you have trouble getting your kids to eat their veggies? How do you get around it? And to all of our non-vegetable-loving Healthkickers out there... would you try this recipe?
  
  This post is contributed from the SexyVeganMama!
  

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