How to Make Salads Kids Will Eat
Didn't I Just Feed You
Stacie Billis and Meghan Splawn
4.9 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
We can’t promise that every kid or picky eater can become a salad convert, but we have strategies for how to build delicious salads that are crave-worthy for you and more likely to get a thumbs up from your littlest eaters — even the picky ones.
Links from this episode
- Our episode, Easy Side Dishes That Aren’t an Afterthought
- Our episode, Our Favorite No Cook Family Dinners for Summer
- Hidden Valley Ranch
- Bolthouse Farms dressings
- Acid League dressings
- Not Just dressings
- Trader Joe’s Aioli Garlic Mustard Sauce
- Stacie's Melon Salad with Chili Crisp
- How to Make an Easy Dinner Salad More Fun: Add Chicken Nuggets
Recipes From the DIJFY Archive
- Meghan's Maple Mustard Vinaigrette
- Chinese Chicken Salad with Sweet and Sour Nuggs
- Stone Fruit Panzanella Salad
- Dinner-Worthy Ramen Salad
- Quinoa, Black Bean, and Mango Salad with Lime Vinaigrette
- Make-Ahead Summer Veggie and Chickpea Salad
- Cheeseburger Salad
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| 0:00.0 | I'm kind of the strong opinion if you're trying to get your kids to like the idea of salad, |
| 0:09.0 | giving them a plate of romaine, like the least flavorful green, |
| 0:15.0 | and trying to be like, yeah, here, you will like salad is like the worst possible way you could go into it. |
| 0:22.5 | Welcome to didn't I just feed you. |
| 0:25.0 | A podcast about feeding kids. |
| 0:28.1 | Hey, I'm Stacy and I'm Megan. |
| 0:31.8 | Salads, salads, salads, salads. |
| 0:33.9 | Salads are going crazy for salad. |
| 0:36.9 | Listen, I feel like food media promises that salads are one of the most nutrient-dense meals that we can feed our kids. Yet so many parents, including ourselves, lament that our kids do not like salads. They don't care about them. They kind of don't want to eat them. So today we're going to share our very best tips for making salads that you and your kids will actually want to eat. |
| 0:59.6 | So we actually covered salads a little bit, Megan. |
| 1:02.7 | Do you remember this? |
| 1:03.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:04.5 | So way back when we had a summer episode number 47. |
| 1:09.3 | How cute is that? |
| 1:10.3 | We're on episode a little 2019. Yeah, we're on episode 241. How cute is that? We're on episode. A little 2019. We're on episode |
| 1:13.1 | 241. But we did an episode. We published an episode called our favorite no-cook family |
| 1:18.5 | dinners and not just salads. And the reason why we titled in that, even the way we titled |
| 1:23.8 | is kind of cute and funny to me, is because the intention was to talk about |
| 1:28.1 | no-cook family dinners, and we do that, but we really got lost in a conversation about salads. |
| 1:34.2 | Oh, my God, we have to talk about it. Yeah, because that was like one of our favorite no-cooked |
| 1:38.0 | dinners. But we also knew that that wasn't super practical to put out there, so we really |
| 1:43.4 | had to expand and push beyond. |
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