Sneak vegetables into your every day foods! Vegetables contain fiber and vitamins our bodies need to live. By all means, eat them raw as a snack, in salads and in smoothies. But we can cook with them too! Check out the article below entitled:How to get your children to eat more vegetables for ideas on sneaking them into the foods you prepare!
In addition, take a peek at this meatball vegetable soup recipe. It is super easy and cooks in the crockpot!
Meatball and Vegetable Soup Recipe
Add olive oil to a pan.
Add 3 pealed and thickly sliced garlic cloves (which I later removed before adding the meatballs to the oil and placed them directly into my soup pot)
Turkey meatballs
- 1 pound of organic ground turkey, defrosted
- and
- Salt, pepper, garlic powder and onion powder
Combine ingredients together and form into small, 2-bite sized meatballs.
Place them in the pan with olive oil on medium heat.
Cook until browned and cooked through...about 3 minutes per side (depending how big the meatballs are).
Soup
- 1 large can (24 ounces) of stewed tomatoes (and crushed them up with my hands)
- 4 cups of organic vegetable stock
- 2 zucchini, peeled and cut into bite sized pieces
- 1/2 large onion, cut into pieces
- 1 cup mini carrots, cut into pieces
- 1 cup frozen mixed vegetables
- Garlic from pan
- Salt, pepper and onion powder, to taste
- Parmesan cheese, optional to sprinkle over top
Add all ingredients into a large pot.
When the meatballs are done cooking, add them into the pot.
Allow soup to cook over medium heat for 1 hour or until vegetables are soft.
This recipe serves 4 people.
If you are going to opt for the crockpot version, simply add everything into the crockpot and set on low. Allow it to cook for 4 to 5 hours.
Need to get more veggies into your children? Check out this article:
How to get children to eat more vegetables
