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PiscesGetting Kids to Eat Veggies!
March is National Nutrition Month! Are your kids eating their veggies? Here are a few ideas to help ....
Guest blogger JJ Virgin: Some kids are as anti-vegetable as they are anti-bedtime or anti-homework. They'll come up with crafty ways to avoid "those slimy green things," like furtively feeding them to the dog or sneaking them into a napkin to throw out later.
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Here’s a really easy way to get kids to eat vegetables - give them nothing else to eat and make it clear that if they do reject the food, that exact food will be served to them as their next meal. Food goes in bellies, not in trash cans. Make the rule clear and stick to it. Simple.
Anonymous, I think that is anything but easy. I pretty much only offer healthy options at meals but I also include things like whole grains, fruit and dairy. I would never dream of putting my son on a vegetable only diet. Also in desperation I have tried your technique of offering the same rejected foods until it is accepted but it was a miserable failure. Maybe it is effective for some children but for my child he only ate enough to barely get by and still has an aversion to it several months later. On the other hand when I allow him to choose which of the healthy foods he will or will not try without making a production then he often will be willing to try a food he originally rejected a day or 2 later. I couldn’t say what technique works with every child, but with my kid this has been the best by far.
I try to make eating healthy fun for my kids and get them involved in helping me make meals. My trick to getting them to eat their vegetables is to put a spin on traditional kids’ snacks or meals. For example, they get a kick out of helping me make “cats” using whole grain english muffins or whole wheat bagels with cottage cheese, small cucumber slices for eyes and ears, a small piece of red bell pepper for the nose, and thin carrot slices for the mouth and whiskers or “sushi” rolls using whole grain bread, tuna fish, cucumbers, and carrots. They are also more inclined to eat fruits and vegetables when they are presented like “adult” food (e.g. on skewers, with dips, etc.) and when they get to experiment with them and make their own creations. I also get my kids involved with helping me grow vegetables in our home garden. I think it’s all about being creative and changing up meals every now and then, even serving the same foods in different shapes or ways.
Parents today are wimps! Make the kid eat vegetables.
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