Don't force them to eat all of it, but ask if they will make a deal and try one piece. Then another. And another.
Try to get them to eat a little more than they normally would. My grandma used to do that and it worked.
Getting children to eat vegetables can be a chore. They usually prefer to eat unhealthy foods like candy, fries, and the meat portion of the meal. Generally, if you encourage them to eat a bite of everything on their plate, they usually are able to get some veggies down.So, one method would be to pretend the top of the plate is a clock and pick a piece from each area.
You can also implement a reward system and can base it on how many vegetables they are willing to eat. Also, you can reward them more if they are willing to eat more vegetables. Here is a great and helpful site for other ideas: keepkidshealthy.com/nutrition/kids_veget... This site talks about the importance of introducing a variety of food with fruits and vegetables as early as possible.
I have the same problem with my kids, they are both picky eaters and they don't want anything to do with vegetables. Fruits, they love them but vegetables are often left untouched. A friend shared with me some tips that she found online and I have tried following this and it helped a lot.My husband and I were so happy that my daughters learned to love vegetables.
These are some tips on how to encourage kids to eat vegetables: 1. As a parent, it would be best to be their role model in eating vegetables.It was not hard because my husband and I love to eat vegetables. We tried to be enthusiastic about healthy foods and share with them how it will make them healthy and strong.
2. Studies show that persistence is one key to be able to successfully encourage children to eat their veggies. Even if they don't eat at first, I tried to keep serving them with variety of vegetable dishes until they learn to like them.
I did not expect them to eat all of the dish but I encourage them to taste it until they would eat more than a portion.3.It would be best to avoid serving special food for children. Parents and children should eat the same food. Avoid offering an alternative meal if they refuse to eat the food that is on the table.4.
Use your creativeness when serving vegetables for the whole family. You can make vegetable salad and make silly faces of animals with them.5. Be sneaky, and I often use this tactics and it works.
You can try grating vegetables like carrots or zucchini or add cubed eggplant or tomatoes to your dishes. One fund way to make your kids interested in eating healthy is this great recipe: Trees in a Broccoli Forrest. You will find a lot of creative recipes at dole.com/SuperKids/Recipe/tabid/715/Defa....
Fruits and vegetables are good food sources of vitamins and minerals. According to April 2010 edition of Parent magazine, kids are attached to sugars or “sweet� Tastes since much of their food consumption contained glucose and complex sugars.
As such, parents need to be creative in how they serve fruits and vegetables to kids until the children acquire a taste for them. For example, since cinnamon has been proven to help regulate blood sugar levels and is also sweet tasting, put some on spinach or other not so lovable vegetables when serving. Kids will enjoy the sweet cinnamon and at the same time slowly eat some of the vegetables.
For fruits, try some low-fat whipped cream on top as serve it a s a desert or fun.By doing so, kids will get calcium and at the same time begin eating more fruits. It is also a good idea to make sure kids take a multivitamin, chewable preferably. Flintstones is a good brand as is Vitaball chewing gum with vitamins.
If you really want to attempt creativity, try putting some vegetables mixed in on top of pizza.
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