Sneaky Mini Pizza

If your kid is anything like mine, getting them to eat their vegetables can be a real struggle! While it's very important to introduce new and health foods, and encourage them to try them, sometimes they just won't. So how do we get those important nutrients into those growing bodies?? We sneak them in!

Wild Child was in a year long phase of not trying ANYTHING and even stopped eating some things that she used to love. Thankfully, she has slowly started to open up to new foods and has accepted pizza back into her repertoire. In order to up the nutritional value in her pizza I have been sneaking spinach into it! Here's what I do:

Since this was a mini pizza, the portions are very small but could easily be increased for a regular sized pizza.

First, I took a few leaves of baby spinach and finely chopped them.
(Next time, I will probably try to chop them more finely than I did this time, just so they are less noticeable.)
Next, I put them into one of the small containers that go with my Magic Bullet.

Next, I added my pizza sauce into the container and blended it with the Magin Bullet.
(Don't let your child see you put the spinach and sauce together!)

After that, the pizza assembly is pretty standard. I used an English muffin as the crust, spread the sauce (I let Wild Child help with the assembly portion of this), sprinkled cheese, chopped pepperoni and placed them on top (Wild Child snuck a few into her mouth, as well!), one last little sprinkle of cheese to help the pepperoni stick, then popped it into the toaster oven until the cheese was melted and starting to turn a golden brown.

My Sneaky Mini Pizza was a success! Wild Child loved it and never noticed the spinach!

Do you have a picky eater? What ways do you get them to eat healthier?