11 Ways To Make Your Child Eat More Vegetables

The time that you spend with your children is precious and you’d rather not spend it fighting over broccoli. Here are 10 ways to make your child eat more vegetables.

11 Ways To Make Your Child Eat More Vegetables

Children can be extremely picky when it comes to their vegetables. But believe us, getting them to eat them is not impossible. We have a few secrets right here to help you eliminate the battle.

The time that you spend with your kids is precious, and you’d rather not spend it fighting over broccoli. Here are 10 ways to make your child eat more vegetables.

Add veggies to their favourite foods

Adding veggies on a yummy pizza, or with the delicious pasta you cook, makes them less hesitant to try the capsicums and other greens. Just the thought of having pizza for dinner to them is overwhelming enough.

Be careful though with your selection of vegetables to put, so that it does not alter the taste much. Begin with adding less of them. Have Pizza nights, Taco nights, pasta nights.

Try roasted veggies

One of the many reasons, your kids might not like a particular vegetable, is because it might be too mushy or taste too strong. Try roasting them to get a flavour in it which your kids won’t be repelled by.

Roasting causes them to become crispy on the outside, and they don’t taste as intense as when eaten raw.

Sneak veggies into baked eateries

That’s new! Heard of chocolate chip cookies with white beans, or muffins with carrots and sweet potatoes? Kids are happy with the taste and the parents are happy with the nutrition content. A total win-win situation.

Have a variety of colours on the plate

Offer diverse food colours. Kids like them. So, instead of making one big, mono-colour vegetable dish, offer them separately on the plate. Kids prefer sorted flavours. This might probably work out for you.

Serve it to them in patterns

Kids love it when their food is designed into patterns on their plate, and separated into perimeters unlike clumped in the centre. Shape the food into a smiley face or a heart shape, and make the food fun.

Add additional flavors

Serve the veggies and food along with something you know your kid will enjoy- maybe cheese, butter, mayo, or other sauces. He will get comfortable and familiar with it, and although it means a few extra calories, it helps him to enjoy spinach. Now that’s what we wanted.

Reward him

According to researches, rewarding a kid for trying one bite of a food they reject with small gifts like stickers makes them less repulsive. It’s easier for them to try it on and also rate the food positively in future.

Lead by example

Eat the broccoli yourself, and make sure your kid watches you. Your eating patterns might influence their reactions. Kids eat what they know of, and they won’t ask for a special mean if they do not know if it is an option. If vegetables and healthy foods are regularly eaten in your house, it’s positive to expect your kids to have them without much hassle.

Get them involved

A good way is to involve your kid in the preparation of the food- taking them to the grocery store, letting them pick veggies to cook for dinner, and they might actually be excited to eat it later. Let them be a part of small tasks like cleaning carrots, snap beans or setting the table makes them more enthusiastic and cooperative at meal time.

Make food fun

Kids love games, and relating healthy food to fun things and into a game is a nice way to make them eat a few of those veggies. If he is a dinosaur who needs to eat five miniature trees (broccoli) to survive, the food becomes more appealing to him.

Consistency and Persistency

Keep at it, and don’t lose patience. Your kids might be more troublesome than the rest, but keep trying the above mentioned things- continue setting good examples, make food fun, add colours. Tell them how eating these greens will help them grow bigger, and stronger, instead of simply stating them as healthy.

Keep your kids exposed to the healthy foods they reject. It will pay off. Eventually.

Do you any other such way to make your kids eat more veggies? Do share with us

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