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Eat Your Veggies! Hidden Veggie Muffins: Sneak More Nutrition Into Your Family’s Diet

Eat Your Veggies! Hidden Veggie Muffins: Sneak More Nutrition Into Your Family’s Diet by Christine Moss. Photograph of the Hidden Veggie Muffins by Christine Moss
All photographs by Christine Moss

From the kitchen of Chef Moss — a delicious and inspiring recipe to incorporate more veggies into your family’s diet (even if you have to hide them)

I made what I like to call, ‘Hidden Veggie’ muffins over the holidays to an attempt to get more vegetables into my family’s diet. My parents more specifically. 

Getting my kids to eat and enjoy vegetables has been a challenge throughout life as a mom.

I have had to come up with countless resourceful and creative ways of incorporating vegetables into various food forms.

Smoothies, pancakes, casseroles, pasta sauces, sandwich mixes, you name it. If I

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