I just found a healthy fruit-and-veggie-filled Kids Cookbook from Dole's 5 A Day Website...they have some of their recipes online, but for a few bucks you can buy their cookbook w/ 34 healthy kid-friendly recipes! Here's the website:
http://www.dole5aday.com/CookBook/C_Home.jsp?topmenu=2
Some examples of the recipes they have available on their website are fruity breakfast parfait, vegetable pasta italiano, carrot & raisin sunshine salad, spunky vegetable pizza, apple tuna sandwich, crunchy vegetable burrito banditos, etc. They list nutrition facts, utensils needed, prep time and baking time as well. A lot of these recipes are simple enough for kids to help prepare, too.
If you get your children involved in the cooking process, they might eat their fruits and veggies more readily...b/c it's something that they made, as opposed to some strange, odiferous green blob that came out of nowhere and was plopped onto their plate....well,
they probably think of veggies that way!
You'll also not only be teaching them to
eat and
like fruits and vegetables, you'll also be teaching them how to cook healthily, which is really invaluable.
I am going to try some of these recipes out w/ my 9 yo brother.