Colorful recipes to boost your health

For Frances Largeman-Roth, RD, dinner time for her kids once meant beige pasta and chicken dishes. “I found myself offering a slate of foods that were bland and colorless,” she says. “I was bored with what we were eating and I knew I had to be proactive about fixing the problem.”

She knew that naturally colorful foods are key to good nutrition; the challenge was getting her kids to eat them. When her daughter Willa came home from school excited about the color wheel, Largeman-Roth had an idea. What if instead of introducing veggies to her kids by name, she presented them based on color? Her instinct was right, and it inspired the following recipes from her cookbook, Eating in Color.