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How To Eat Vegetables

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We all know kids should eat their vegetables, but many times, this is easier said than done. Here are a few tips from a vegetable-loving mom who has been there, done that!

1. Set a good example

Your kids will follow your lead. They will eat what they see you eating. Be a role model and eat your own vegetables!

2. Start young

Infants can eat boiled, mashed, and pureed vegetables such as sweet potatoes, carrots, peas, and green beans. Start feeding vegetables to your babies as soon as they begin solid foods. They will get used to the taste and vegetables won't be foreign to them.

3. Make it fun

Toddlers and school age kids enjoy fun foods. Make faces or shapes on their plates with vegetables - a face with broccoli hair, cherry tomato eyes, and a carrot mouth. Make it fun for them to eat the face.

4. Use creative dipping sauces

Kids love to dip. Offer dips such as ranch dressing, ginger soy sauce, honey mustard, barbeque sauce. Offer new dips and sauces to keep them interested. We use little plastic cups (like from pudding) for dipping and each child can pick 2 or 3 dips at each meal.

5. Make soup

It is easy to load up the vegetables in home made soup. Let your kids help make it with you. Give them crackers to dip in the soup when eating it.

6. Make pizza

Add vegetables such as peppers, shredded carrots, broccoli, onions, sundried tomatoes, olives, etc. Let your kids help decorate the pizza, or better yet, make small individual sized pizzas and each child can prepare his own.

7. Let your kids help choose vegetables at the grocery store. Instead of saying, "Do you want carrots?" Ask them, "Which should we get, carrots or celery?" Let them be involved in the shopping.

8. Let kids choose the vegetable when preparing a meal. If you have more than one child, let them take turns. Ask them, "Which should we have tonight, green beans or broccoli?" Let them be involved instead of forcing them to eat what you choose.

9. Hide it

If all else fails, puree cooked vegetables and add them to sauces. Layer vegetables in lasagna and casseroles.

How To Eat Vegetables

Many parents strive to ensure that their children eat vegetables. Some meet with complete success, others with very little success. Veggies contain many vitamins, minerals and other essential nutrients that a body needs to main good health and energy. They help protect against the effect of aging and reduce the risk of cancer and heart disease.

If you want your child to eat vegetables, improve your own attitude towards eating them. Early in age, child tends to mimic either or both parents for almost everything. If you as a parent dislike any particular vegetable, your child will do the same.

How you eat and what you eat affects your child directly. If you want your child to eat something that you dislike, you have to make an attempt to eat it first and then encourage your child to try a spoonful or plateful of it. It is not easy to get children to like any new food the first time. Keep reintroducing them from time to time.

Some tricks of trade that you can try to get your child to eat vegetables.

- Blend vegetables in a blender and add them to spaghetti sauce or liven up any non-veg dish.

- Keep a plateful of green salad, either in raw or grated form. You can toss up a salad with cucumbers, tomatoes, celery, lettuce, carrots, cabbage, onion, and radish and so on. You can have salads either at mealtime or in between meals, as a snack.

- While making sandwiches for lunch, add lettuce, tomato slice or carrots in between. Chicken, tuna or pasta salads taste great with dash of vegetables in it.

- If your child thrives on noodles, add boiled or lightly steamed vegetables to it.

- While making pizza, add chopped broccoli, spinach, etc in addition to other toppings.

- Vegetables with a dash of melted cheese added to soups changes the flavor altogether.

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