Children and Veg

I am vegetable hater but my mother always find a way to feed me veggies and now she does same with my kids.

Make pasta sauces with tomatoes, peppers, sweet potatoes, carrots, celery, even apple, they are all blended together so they will never notice.

Add a little bit of butter to peas, sweetcorn.

Make a fruit salad and leave it for them to see and you will find that they will probably eat them.

Let them see you eating them, they are more likely to try it that way.

Try cucumber and carrot sticks with hummus or cream cheese or even peanut butter.

Have a look at annabel karmels recipes, she is known for making recipes for fussy eaters that contain hidden veggies.

You can hide coliflower in mash potatoes in curry by blending you be surprised where can hide

Vegs and fruits are so good for your body the inside and outside. They improve your health and make you skin beautiful.

Mixed fruits salads can be a starting point, same with vegs. Kids always love colourful foods and I am sure it will work with them.

its really difficult to get your child to eat veg when it looks like this,

Blend it in things like pasta sauces. Get them to help make things like fruit salad because they have helped they are more likely to eat it

To be honest I think that I am lucky in that all of my kids have have always been good eaters. They love fruit and vegetables. Infant they all have a love for broccoli, which I have tk admit , I'm not the biggest fan of!! I have always given grapes and strawberries as snacks from when they were tiny and this has stayed true. Lately however my eldest (10) has become more of a challenge as he isn't interested in many of the things that he has always loved. I guess it I perhaps just a spell he is going through . But despite this he stil could eat a whole box of cherry tomatoes by himself I he was allowed!

There are lots of tricks for kids with veg. Especially little ones. And imagination is the key I think.

Let's face it most of the fruit and veg are colourful and so presented in a good way they are more likely to like them. If it looks green or boring I probably wouldnt like ir either!

My daughter loves fruits....no problem with that

And also refuses some of the veg but loves some of them...she loves broccoli...

But there are creative ways u can make them eat them...make some animals out of vegetables same with fruits