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3 Ways To Get Your Kids To Eat Their Vegetables
By Dr. Robb | February 10, 2007
Anyone that has small children knows that getting your kids to eat their vegetables can sometimes be harder than getting a straight answer from a politician in an election year.
It doesn’t always have to be that difficult though… you just have to use a little creativity and a little patience. Let’s get started.
1. Instead of trying to force your kids to eat vegetables that they think they don’t like, simply try combining them with another vegetable that they DO like. Most kids love mashed potatoes, so I’ll use them as an example. Cut up some cauliflower and cook it with the potatoes. Just mash up the cauliflower with the potatoes, add anything else that you usually add and your kids probably won’t even know they are eating cauliflower.
You can do this with a lot of different combinations of vegetables. If they like sweet potatoes, you can add a few carrots… the will never know. The important thing is to not give them the choice to pick out the vegetables they think they don’t like. If you just mix vegetables without being able to mash them, your kids will most certainly pick and choose the vegetables they want.
2. Start a small garden and let the kids help with it. Let them have their own small garden if you have the space. You will be surprised at what the kids will eat if they get to choose what gets grown and they take part in it. Get them to pick three different vegetables and let them help prepare them when they are finished growing.
3. Kids do as their parents do… not as their parents say. Like it or not, if YOU don’t eat your vegetables, your kids won’t eat theirs. They learn by watching and imitating. If you expect your kids to eat the vegetables, then you need to make it a part of your normal everyday life too. If they see you eating healthy vegetable snacks each day, they will grow up thinking that is normal and they will snack on vegetables.
There are a lot of other different ways to get kids to eat their vegetables, but these are the three most successful methods. Give them a try and see how it goes.
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