do you force your children to eat vegetable?

Absolutely! With my 10 year old it is not a struggle though, he loves vegetables with very few exceptions, well actually he loves almost any food with very few exceptions. My 8 year old is a little pickier, actually it's not really pickiness as much as it is stubbornness. He could like something one day, hate it the next and love it the next, it all depends on his mood lol. But as my mom did when I was a kid I do the same with mine, if I make it they have to at least have a little bit. Of course usually I stick with veggies we all like, but once in a while I'll make a veggie that my oldest and I like and my youngest doesn't, I make him have at least a few bites though. My husband is the one who doesn't help, he is very picky so of course my youngest thinks if daddy doesn't have to eat it why should he. Not a vegetable obviously, but I still remember as a kid my mom making me eat fish, I've always hated fish(unless it's battered and loaded with tartar sauce lol), but if she made fish for dinner we all had to eat at least a small piece...oh I hated it! LOL

well i have a 13yr old girl in the house, but eating veggies has never been a problem. we regularly eat carrots and raw broccoli as snacks. cooked greenbeans are not well loved, but usually only get a mild whine, especially since i tend to have them as part of the main dish and not just a side dishes all on their own. that way they have a bit of a different flavor.

Force? No, I don't. There is a method to this but you have to start early. I really started to clean up my own eating when my daughter started eating what we did. I rarely if ever fixed her something different, she would have what we were having for meals, once she was completely off baby food. When you have introduced vegetables (and fruits) early and always have a variety, your kids will eat them. Oddly enough, my daughter has eaten most vegetables and every fruit, and she wouldn't eat french fries till she was over 2. She loves them now but that was my fault lol. Kids will model your eating habits too. If you get some of the junk out of your house and choose healthier things for snacks, younger kids will mirror what you do. This isn't to say you remove EVERY bit of junk, some is good so that it's never taboo. Parents who take away everything end up with a kid who hoards and rebels - that was me. I'm pretty balanced now but I also know having some junk food is as close as my pantry, freezer, or the local Sonic, and I can get to any of those pretty quickly, so my junk consumption is low. I have no fear I will never meet a french fry again. I don't know how old your kids are and that would be what I need to know to base my suggestions on. I would first tend to say hide the veggies. When you make say... spaghetti or lasagna, puree up steamed veggies and add them to the sauce. They will never know. In casseroles (like tuna, shepherd's pie, chicken and rice) and stews, add in some frozen mixed veggies, or frozen corn, or frozen peas. Have your kids make their own pizzas, get english muffins, pizza sauce, pepperoni, and have them help pick out a small variety of fresh vegetables. Then they can help cut these up. Include things like red or green peppers, maybe olives, even shredded carrot or zucchini, mushrooms, green onions or regular onions. I guarantee if they help shop for these items and help cut them up, they may put some on their own pizzas and they will EAT them. Kids are proud of things they make or do for themselves. Above all, just keep trying. If you can get your kids to like even just a few veggies, those will be your go-tos. Always try new things but know if your kids like green beans or corn that you could always make sure you have some fresh, frozen, or canned in a pinch. Don't be afraid to add things, like make broccoli with cheese sauce, or cauliflower with cheese. Serve the carrots with ranch dip and offer a treat later if he or she eats the carrots. If you're attempting to start new habits it can be rough at the start. My daughter's favorite is corn on the cob, but she also loves broccoli and carrots, and she eats salad too. I never gave her an opportunity to think that people DON'T eat vegetables regularly, and she knows that eating good things is part of taking care of yourself so that you grow and don't get sick. If your kids are older, do some research with them online. Watch some programs on channels like TLC and Discovery or Discovery Health. There are some interesting things on there. Good luck! Welcome to mylot too by the way!

I still have no kid. But I ever read a story in a magazine. The parents will not spoil their child. If their kids don't have the dish. They will continue to cook the same dish until the 2 kids have it. They don't pursuade or punish them and just continue to cook dish what the kid unwilling to have.

Force them? Not so much. Without physically stuffing the food into their mouths (which will cause more harm than good), you really CAN'T force them. Cajole. Bribe even. Yes, I said bribe your children. Bribing kids to eat veggies is older than dirt - why do you think people invented dessert? :) You can also compromise - "Okay, Timmy, if you eat just half of your green beans, you can have a cookie after dinner." I also tried something with my daughter: I has been making a dish that she didn't like. I told her that if she absolutely hated it, I wouldn't make her eat it, and she could have something else. But she couldn't eat with us, and had to wait until the rest of us were done eating for her meal. Two times doing that, and now she happily eats the same dish she once hated. You just have to try different things, but try to use something at least marginally positive, or they'll only fight harder. Good luck!

I don't force my kids to eat anything they don't like but, i do want them to try it at least once before they say they don't like it. In my house we eat alot of salad almost daily and my kids are really into it. I always have different dressings and seeds to top our salads. Sometimes we only use lemon juice and salt as topping. They'll eat most veggies fresh, it's the cooked or steamed ones that they don't want sometimes, like califlower or okra. I have no problems with fruit though, they love it.

I am so lucky! My son loves vegetables (loves broccoli - not even I can say that). Only think he won't eat is green beans! When I was babysitting for my cousins kids, I would "hide" them in things. You can do amazing things with vegetables that way. I chopped them very finely and put them into cassoroles, soups and even mixed it in hamburger meats for the grill! Pureeing works well for this too.