1. Place all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. Add more water, if necessary, to reach desired consistency.

1. Add a handful of fresh spinach, romaine lettuce, or other leafy green (iceberg lettuce doesn't count!) to a smoothie.
2. Add grated carrots or zucchini or pureed red bell peppers (or other veggies) to your pasta or pizza sauce.
3. Puree steamed cauliflower in with your mashed potatoes.
4. Replace 1/2 of the oil in a baked goods recipe with pureed carrots, pumpkin, or sweet potatoes/yams.
5. Mix the liquid portion of your pancake batter in a blender and add raw zucchini or carrots or cooked sweet potatoes/yams before blending.
6. Include grated veggies in baked goods: try zucchini or carrot muffins.
7. Add finely chopped greens or broccoli to your soup. If you don't like the "chunks" (as my kids say), try pureeing veggies and adding them to the broth.
8. Add sliced veggies (like red bell pepper) to a sandwich, wrap, or quesadilla.
9. Replace french fries with a side of baked sweet potato "fries".
10. Add broccoli, zucchini, or spinach to lasagna or enchiladas.
11. Make homemade veggie burgers and include red bell peppers, broccoli, carrots, zucchini, or other veggies in the mix.
12. Replace spaghetti noodles with zucchini that has been sliced with a vegetable peeler. Top with your favorite pasta sauce.
13. Add your finely chopped veggies to rice or grain dishes.
14. Make roasted red pepper dip or add pureed veggies to hummus.
15. Try preparing your veggies in a way that you haven't tried before. E.g. if you hate steamed brussels sprouts, try roasting them. Roasting veggies brings out their natural sweetness and they taste great!

1. Combine the oats and chia seeds in a bowl and top with the fruit.
2. Blend the water, dates, cashews, and vanilla on high until smooth (should be milk-like). Pour over the fruit and oat mix.

1. Reduce the yogurt to 1/4-1/2 cup and add 1/2 a frozen banana to the puree. Add a splash of apple juice, if necessary, to make blending easier but keep the mixture thick.
2. Drizzle agave nectar or honey over the top of the berries and bananas if you like things a little sweeter.
3. Add 1 Tbsp of hemp seeds for extra protein and iron (either to the puree or sprinkled over the top).
4. Use tropical fruit such as mango, pineapple, or papaya instead of banana and strawberries. Top with a sprinkle of shredded coconut.

I converted a banana bread recipe into muffins today and they turned out so good that each of my kids ate two of them. That's no big deal for my almost-two-year-old, who will eat almost anything (I've seen him wolf down kale chips and ask for more!). But my four-year-old tends to be quite picky and he loved these muffins. These are free of "chunks" for my kids' sake, but you can add walnuts, raisins, blueberries, or other things if you like.

1. Preheat oven to 350°. Mash the bananas in a small bowl and add applesauce, both extracts, sugar, oil, and milk. Mix well.
2. Combine the flours, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a medium bowl. Add the wet ingredients and gently stir until combined but don't over-mix or your muffins will be tough. Add more milk of the batter is super thick (it should be thick but not cookie-dough thick).
3. Spray a muffin pan with non-stick cooking spray and fill the muffin cups level with the top. Since this is a converted loaf recipe, I found that it make only 11 muffins. Your mileage may vary. Bake for 20 minutes or until they are lightly browned and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

• Add nut butter (e.g. peanut or almond butter), sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, and/or hemp seeds to the wet ingredients and blend well.
• Substitute soy flour for up to 1/3 cup flour.
• Substitute a serving of protein powder for an equal amount of the flour.
• Substitute ground flaxseeds (flax meal) and/or wheat germ for up to 1/3 cup flour.
• Add blackstrap molasses for iron.

• Add carrots, apples, bananas, berries, squash, applesauce, sweet potatoes, or other fruits and/or veggies to the wet ingredients and blend well. Bananas (especially really ripe bananas) work really well for this!