Getting kids to eat vegetables and fruit.

This is the purpose of the blog ....to help people learn how to get kids to eat more fruits and vegetables. Never force a child to eat.... that will make them hate it even more. Start small when trying to get kids to eat vegetables. 1 whole green bean today and add more each time. Make it a game...Can you eat 3 green beans before she eats one? Try hiding them in other foods of the same color. Mash carrots up in sweet potatoes that have been sweetened with cinnamon and honey. All kids like sweet foods. If they don't see them they never know they are there. Mix cauliflower in with mashed potatoes. It still taste like mashed potatoes. Chop broccoli florets into tinny, tiny pieces and put them in melted cheese you use for a topping on other foods or mix them in a cheese dip. Kids love the dips because it makes them feel more grown up. Since most kids like cheese try putting melted cheese on the broccoli florets. Sometimes just changing the shape works on some kids. Like cutting them into different shapes with small cookie cutters. Or calling them by another name. My grandson said he didn't like cantaloupe until his mother gave him some mixed in with some other melons that were done with a small melon baller and she called them "fruit marbles". He still like to eat "fruit marbles" and it doesn't matter what fruit it is now as long as they are small and round. Kids like to mimic grown ups or older kids so try giving them the same fruit and /or vegetable you or an older child are eating. Treating them like an older person works wonders. Make vegetable lasagna covered with a meat sauce. Try the meatloaf on my blog. That works with most kids.

I guess you're right, i can eat the whole of green beans before she eat one. I think she doesn't like green color and she like red color. But, she like potatoes for her food. And, she like cheese so i would give her this food without force her. Good suggestion, and it's work. Thanks for sharing that idea.

Thank you for giving me the BR, good day and happy mylotting.

They seem to drift away from the foods we fed them when they were babies (12-18 mo.) It's when they get big enough to feed themselves they decide they don't like the foods they ate back then. It's great to hear you didn't let your children eat a lot of junk food. Too many kids today eat more junk food than they do healthy foods. And way too many are getting fat and showing signs of becoming a diabetic. With the economy the way it is today most moms are working and aren't there to look after their kids the way they would like. Thanks for the visit and the comment Kowgirl