It's a lot easier to wean someone off the sugar cooked with vegetables than
to transition someone from nothing but sugar into eating vegetables.

And I make mashed sweet potatoes all the time, boiling dice until soft,
mashing with lo fat yogurt, adding cinnamon and Splenda to taste.

I also sometimes go savory and instead of cinnamon and Splenda, add cumin
and/or smoked paprika to the yogurt, sweet potato mash. In this case, I'll
cook the dice in stock.

"Janet Wilder" > wrote in message
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> Kris wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> A friend is trying to get her son to eat more vegetables, and he had
>> some mashed sweet potatoes recently that we went wild for. So she's
>> trying to replicate them at home.
>>
>> They were extra sweet, but NOT the kind of sweet potatoe casserole
>> with sweet topping recipe. Mashed sweet potatoes with things mixed in
>> to make them even sweeter.
>>
>> Any ideas? I'd like to surprise my friend with some ideas.
>>
>> Thanks as always,
>> Kris
>
> Pardon my stupidity, but what is the purpose of getting a child to eat
> more vegetables with so much added sweetener that the high sugar count
> practically negates the benefits of the vegetable?