Vegetables vs Children

yes you are right, it is difficult to make children eat vegetables. but i have found a good trick that maybe you can try it. I make some nugget with ingredients is from some of vegetables. like carrot, mushroom, spinach and other. many children like nugget. childrens dont want eat vegetables because they see it, so if it in form of nugget, they will it. it really success and you know, nugget from vegetables is more delicious from common nugget i think.

When I was a child I hated peas. But now, as an adult, I love them. It is important to encourage children to eat their vegetables. What the parents could do is make a dessert out of them, such as zucchini bread, which also could contain raisins. Or they could make carrot cake. Vegetables could also be add together with fruit to make a smoothie or shake. Generally, children don't know there is vegetables added in them, and they get all the proper nutrition, anyway.

I was also very blessed with children that ate vegetables willingly. If it happened that there was a particular vegetable they didn't like, I never made them eat it because they enjoyed such a wide variety of fruits and vegetables already. In fact, both of my daughters still prefer veggies more than fruit. Sometimes kids refuse vegetables just on sight. They know what it is and they decide they don't like it -- even if they never tried it. As others suggested, it helps to make the veggies as "kid friendly" as you can. Cut things up to be eaten with the hands and offer a dip or some hummus. Dip seems to make everything more interesting Also, it's easy to get vegetables into dishes that kids already like - such as spaghetti. You can finely grate or mince carrots or zucchini into a big pot of spaghetti sauce and it will cook down and hardly be noticeable. You can also make a similar sauce to be used for homemade pizza to increase their veggie intake (rather than store-bought pizza that wouldn't have that). You can add minced veggies to what the kids already like - maybe mashed potatoes or even mac and cheese. You could also experiment with making veggie burgers... there are some recipes that are tasty substitutes for beef burgers... and the more you top them and make them look like the burgers they already enjoy, the more likely you are to succeed

As a kid I was pampered as far as my eating habits were concerned. I could get away with anything at the dining table and was never forced to eat anything that I did not want to. As a result I never learnt to eat vegetables. I am a grandma now and am still as fussy. Ofcourse as a guest when I go somewhere I eat whatever is served but I dont cook most vegetables at home and this has never harmed me in any way. My kids learnt to eat all vegetables from the time they were babies because my inlaws encouraged them to eat everything before they could understand what they were eating. Now both my kids and my grand son eat all vegetables.

I have been a very blessed person in this department. All of my children are like little rabbits. They would rather choose some fruits or vegetables over cany any day. There are a few little ways we make it more fun for them though. Like with celery we put peanut butter and raisons on it (ants on a log). Or cheese whiz. They also upon occasion use dips for their vegetables like ranch dressing. Try to stick with the ones they like best. Good luck with your venture.

To make my son eats vegetables I add to the brocoli cnd garlic and he love it, and give him carrots juice with a lot of lemon and milk, he likes to cabbage when it is mixed with the ground beef.