How to sneak veggies into food?

Ok so make smoothies. Make them taste good. Always add milk and ice. Secondly if you just want a straight up fruit smoothie just add the fruit and ice. Now the last thing. Add spinach in EVERY single shake/smoothie. You cant taste the difference between one with spinach and one without spinach, its a great source of calcium and iron.

Well if he's eating salad it's not that he won't eat them, you can put whatever you want into mac and cheese and it tastes fine. Brown some burger, green pepper, onions then mix with a box of mac and cheese. Add some tomatoes if he likes them once done. If he doesn't like the taste of the green pepper and onion boil it with the mac and cheese. But sounds like it's time for him to be a big boy and start expanding his diet and realize that he won't see 50 if he is that young and already hypertensive without effort on his part. It doesn't have to be every meal even once or twice a week could make a difference.

Mash cooked cauliflower to look like mashed potatoes, tastes about the same. You could put some cheese in it. I put cheese on lots of vegetables, it melts over them.

A lot of people don't like vegetables more because they don't have the creaminess that the fats have so you add butter or cheese to them and they are a lot better.

Fresh vegetables like broccoli and carrots are a lot better if dipped in some kind of dip or sauce or even ranch dressing.

Corn is classified a starch it really does not even count as a vegetable.

If he likes meatloaf and pasta, you can shred any vegetables and put some in before you cook them. Pasta has tomatoes in already if you use tomato sauce. You can shred carrots and put them in also...

You're right to be concerned about his health, as the diet you describe is (as you know) high in fats, salt and sugar, empty processed carbs and lacking in vitamins, minerals and fibre.

To have high blood pressure at such a young age is not good news, and if he carries on this way he will become overweight, malnourished and set himself up for diabetes and poor bone and muscle growth. Right now he probably feels OK, as he is young and his body can handle what he is throwing at it- but unless he changes his ways he will have a poor quality of life from his late 30's onwards and have a very poor older age 50 plus. Diabetes is very bad news- my Dad was like this and now in his 60's he has had several strokes, has bad eyesight, his legs are ulcerated and may have to be amputated, he is in a wheelchair and has a very poor quality of life.

The bad news is that you cannot become his carer. He has to make his own choices. Cook and eat the food that you know is good, enjoy eating it yourself- if he wants to join in then that's great but you cannot make nagging him to eat well your life's work. His relationship with food is from his childhood, and it's his job to deal with that.

If you want to become his carer, that's another matter- but this is not the joyful, loving and shared interest kind of relationship that you had in mind?

This is a great book for adding veggies. But the truth is he has to want to do it. So sad, sounds like a long road of sickness and slow death. I hope he gets some help this is self destructive behavior.

Try ranch dressing on cold, dry broccoli. My 7 something (at the time) nephrew enjoyed that.

puree it into tomato sauce in pasta

hide it in meatloaf and casseroles or meatballs

make it in shakes or smoothies

make it with breads or muffins

make mashed potatoes with cauliflower and put cheese on it

I put about 20 kinds of fruit and veggies into my Vitamix every morning, lasts me until the next day. I also put soy protein powder in it too.

Makes excellent smoothies of any type.

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Make lasagna. I started hiding layers of vegi's in my lasagna when my kids were young.... they never knew. If he can see them and won't eat it - try dicing celery, carrot, zucchini or other vegi's in the sauce and use it there.

blend it with fruits make smoothies