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Providing a kid a healthy snack of bite size vegetables is far more nutritious than a small package of crisps of chocolate. We all know the wellbeing benefits of eating our 5 a day' fruit and vegetable quotas, but how do you get offspring to eat fruit and vegetables as part of a nourishing meal without any challenges?
There are plenty of ways - some pretty understandable like including vegetables to a main meal and having a fruit based desert, yet this is not always so straightforward and you may need a little imagination to support the child into eating them. It's up to us, as father and mother or primary carers to guarantee the relevant vitamins and minerals, fiber and goodness is given to our children, so with a little imagination this can be accomplished.
Color - with a rainbow of color on a plate, as a healthy snack, how can a youngster shove it away? It appears appetizing fresh and scrumptious. Many offspring will eat raw foods, so carrots, slices of red, green, orange and yellow peppers, vine tomatoes, mange tout and baby corn all make for an eye catching vegetable platter, and with the inclusion of meat or other protein, provide a nutritious meal. This can be adopted in the same technique by a rainbow of fruit. Why not make a fun game of coloring in pictures of vegetables to match what your child has consumed?
Showcase - a blob of pale green slime is off putting for even us, so how can we expect a child to eat it. By offering it in an attractive way will encourage your little one to attempt it (remember those horrible school lunches - goodness knows what they consisted of!).
Case in point - by dining with your child and showing them what is acceptable, encouraging him to try a vegetable with you and making the meal fun will diminish any anxiety. It has been well researched that offspring learn by example, so if mum dislikes sprouts, chances are so will the child, though there are loads of alternatives for sprouts.
Consider this - how can you make a vegetable fun? Vegetables can be made into humorous shapes, similar to a caterpillar or geometrical pattern, let your toddler help, it will encourage them by touch, texture and appearance. Also take into consideration using bedtime stories to make vegetables fun and engaging - think the humble carrot as the King of the Jungle', in its place of a lion, or a corn cob as a damsel in distress! There are so many kinds of vegetables for creating stories from a Vegetable Kingdom'.
