Charlotte Radcliffe RNutr
Serves: 4
Prep time: 20 mins
Cook time: 45 mins
Ingredients:
3 carrots (wash, remove ends and cut into batons)
1 red onion (peel and cut into quarters)
½ mixed squash or butternut squash (wash, peel, de-seed and cut into chunks)
2 parsnips (wash, remove ends and cut into batons)
300g raw beetroot (peel and chop into quarters)
2 peppers (any colour; wash, de-seed and cut into chunks)
250g Brussel sprouts (fresh or frozen; wash if using fresh)
3 cloves garlic (peel and finely chop)
8 turkey sausages, or plant-based alternative
2 tbsp olive oil
Salt and black pepper to season
Optional: tenderstem broccoli to serve as an accompaniment
Veg Portions / Serving: 3
Method:
Pre-heat oven to 200°C/ 180°C fan/ Gas 6
Once ingredients are prepared (as shown in ingredients section), place everything, excluding the sausages, into a large bowl.
Mix well and lay on a baking tray.
Cook for 25 minutes, stirring a couple of times during cooking.
Add your turkey sausages, or plant-based alternative, to the tray and cook for the recommended time on the back of pack.
Remove from oven and serve with steamed tenderstem broccoli.
Top Tips
Engaging Kids
Kids who engage regularly with veg through veg-themed activities, such as arts and crafts, sensory experiences, growing and cooking are shown to be more likely to eat the veg they engage with. Encouraging kids to engage and play with veg is the handy first step to them developing a good relationship with veg and life-long healthy eating.
Kids in the kitchen
Prep the veg, then let the kids take charge mixing everything together and laying it on the tray.
Activities
While getting kids to interact with veggies for real and using their senses to explore them is best, encouraging hands off activities like arts & crafts, puzzles & games or at-home science experiments can be a great start, particularly for those who are fussier eaters or struggle with anything too sensory. Use these veg-themed activities as a stepping stone to interacting with the veg themselves. We have loads of crafty downloads here, puzzles here, and quirky science with veg here.
Sensory
Once you feel your child is ready to engage a little more, you can show them how to explore the veg you have on hand with their senses, coming up with playful silly descriptions of how a veg smells, feels, looks, sounds and perhaps even tastes. Find ideas, videos and some simple sensory education session ideas to get you started here.
Serving
The moments before food is offered can be a perfect opportunity for engagement that can help make it more likely a child will eat it! Giving children a sense of ownership in the meal can make a big difference to their feelings going into it and the pride they take in it. You know your child best, but if you aren’t sure where to start, we have some fun and simple ideas for easy roles you can give them in the serving process over here.
Charlotte Radcliffe RNutr
Charlotte is a registered nutritionist and director of The Nutrition Consultant Ltd. With over 20 years’ experience in the food industry, she combines evidence-based nutrition with deep knowledge of food production, safety and ingredients to help families make informed, affordable choices.
www.thenutritionconsultant.org.uk
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