We all laugh at the commercials that show kids hiding vegetables but the truth is as parents we really do want our kids to eat the veggies and not hide them. Vegetables help prevent diseases and add fiber to our diet and much-needed vitamins.
Depending on the age of your child, he/she should eat between two to four servings of vegetables every day.
If you are finding it difficult to get the vegetables into your child’s mouth here are some fun ways of offering them to the kids.
Fun Ways to Get Your Child to Eat Veggies
Create fun vegetables that will seem as if they are enjoying playtime instead of eating vegetables and watch the kids gobble up the insects and monsters…. I mean vegetables!
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Make Ants on a Log
by spreading natural peanut butter on the top of cut celery sticks and then put raisins on top of the peanut butter as the ants.
Try these fun tips for getting kids to eat their vegetables and you might be surprised at the success you will notice. If all else fails try letting someone else serve the kids vegetables several times a week like a babysitter or grandparent. Sometimes kids will eat vegetables just because someone else is serving them, go figure!
I knew a three-year-old who flatly refused to eat vegetables at dinnertime with his parents but would gobble them up at lunchtime in my daycare home. His mom was stunned one afternoon when she arrived early to pick him up and actually watched him happily eating his vegetables.
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