It was skeptical that my kids would eat vegan sloppy joes (it has lentils in it, a definite weird food), but sometimes the ignorance of youth is your friend at the dinner table. My kids haven’t had much exposure to sloppy joes, so they had no expectations as to what is in them normally. Beef? Veggies? It all seems like a slightly sweet and tangy mix in a sauce.
Once I got them to try a tiny bite, they were all in on it.
The one issue, which I should’ve predicted, wasn’t with the ingredients so much as the sloppiness of the sloppy joes. Neither of my kids are big on messy meals. They want their food to be very separated. This was kind of tough, but I ended up spooning some sloppy joe filling beside the buns and that did the trick: bite of bun, bite of filling, same deal.
Vegan slop, sloppy joes for the win!
MORE VEGAN DINNER RECIPES TO ENJOY:
Vegan Chickpea Minestrone
Smoky Vegan Lentil Stew
Vegan Stuffed Squash with Brown Rice and Mushrooms
Vegan Mushroom Barley Soup
Creamy Polenta with White Beans and Roasted Broccoli
