Your child doesn’t want to eat vegetables and you don’t know what to do to change it?
Today, we present few ways to teach your child eating vegetables:
- Start with meals that your child already knows - favourite meals are the best way to smuggle vegetables! Remember that your child will be more tolerant of vegetable ingredients if you hide them under a blanket made of pasta slices or cheese;)
- Give your meals interesting names - for example, "Brazilian football", if your son is interested in football, or "specialty from Barbie", when your daughter’s favourite toy is this doll. In fact, under these names can be a pizza on a wholemeal dough and a homemade sauce, on which you will put spinach, sweet corn and slices of mozzarella or vegetable muffins, which can certainly appear in the kitchen of the girl's favourite heroine.
- Let the food be fun - for example, broccoli can be trees placed on your child's plate. You can be sure that while telling such stories your child will happily eat lettuce that threatens his favourite heroes.
- Take your child to shopping - it is more likely that your child will try new products when you give him the opportunity to choose them from the store shelf.
- Let your child cook with you - children like to cook and imitate adults, it builds a child's self-confidence, because he can do something by himself.
- Go for snacks - prepare healthy fries with home-made tomato sauce or sweet carrots and honey sticks.
- Apply the method of one bite - reserve to your child so that before asking if he can leave the table, he took a bite of food, which he has on his plate. This increases the chances that he will be surprised by the taste and will want to take a second bite.