Vegetables

[UncleLim]

ooptimizer:

But what if the parent also don't like to eat veggie?

Hahaha that is a good one ! Ok, I think then the parents will also have to learn to eat veggies because they teach best by example. It will have a good outcome for your colon health etc.

[chuanchuan]

My DH doesnt eat Vegetables or fruits. He is going 40 but looks like 28.

Me on the other hand prefers veg and fruits to meat but I look my age

[Blobbi]

UncleLim:

Parents facing kids who do not eat greens should also try having salad for meals in addition to other meals.


Now my kids are hooked on salad they don't like cooked veggies anymore.

2 families who came for dinner in our home told us that their kids first learnt to eat salad with us - incredible !!??

For fun, teach them to wrap a piece of chicken or pork in a lettuce leaf - like the Koreans. Add butterhead lettuce and other interesting looking veggies to make the whole dish seem fun. And I also have raisins strewn generously over the greens to add some sweetness.

Good luck !

Wah, this is a great idea, like Bulgogi. Keke, now got new weapon :D. Tks!!

[simple2005]

UncleLim:

ooptimizer:

But what if the parent also don't like to eat veggie?

Hahaha that is a good one ! Ok, I think then the parents will also have to learn to eat veggies because they teach best by example. It will have a good outcome for your colon health etc.

Agreed.

My 2nd boy was trained from young, staying with a vegetarian babysitter. But as parents, we eat a lot of veges too, and our big one is also comfortable with veges, if the parents appear to enjoy veges, the kids would naturally eat it too.

Each kid have their preference, my big one prefers broccoli, watercress, lotus root soup, and carrot and lettuce salad with his own homemade sauce. My younger one take more variety, loves his salad, tomatoes must be raw. Both love mushrooms like their daddy & mummy.

Agreed that it's healthier to go take more vege.

Cheers.

[buds hubs]

ooptimizer:

But what if the parent also don't like to eat veggie?

Just like me.. :lol:

Actually, when I was a boy I dont like to eat ANY form of vegetables..
Nowadays, I do eat vegetables with the exception of some..
but what i hate most is \"Taugeh\"

[sleepy]

buds hubs:

but what i hate most is \"Taugeh\"

me too! absolutely no bean sprout for me
Only exception is char kway tiao. The popular stalls refused to accept special order

[sleepy]

ooptimizer:

But what if the parent also don't like to eat veggie?

I remembered my mom forcing me to eat bean sprout. A traumatic childhood memory

Told my kids they can have the liberty to choose one veg that they absolutely wouldn't eat & that veg would be gone from their menu till they are emotionally ready. Other veg items, they have to try at least one tiny bite

[autumnbronze]

What about fruits??


When DS was ready for pureed and later solid food, he was on a vege, fruit, tofu, pulses diet first. Now he eats a wide variety of both.

I always make sure he eats like 2 to 4 varieties of vege per meal.

For fruits, I give avocado and tofu (the cold, used in dessert types), nectarines, peaches, dragonfruit etc.. apart from the other common fruits. I really shop for a variety when I do grocery. He eats fruits 4 times a day mostly and vege for both lunch and dinner. I give him meat mostly during dinner, sometimes for both meals.

So far he has not exhibited any signs of fussiness. Though now that he has a sense of awareness (he is 2 and a half), he will say doesn't want when for example I tried to introduce him to dragonfruit. But I made it fun by asking him to count the black seed like thingees and soon he was eating away

I also feel that when you show them what they are going to eat, like brocolli and let them touch and feel them, it makes a lot of difference. l use some of the veges to make stamps for him to play with in paint during art. I teach him colours using the vege and fruits as well, like \"which is the green vege?? Oh brocolli, ok, now show me how do you pick it up and put it in your mouth to chew\" In my case, I say that 'familiarity encourages willingness to eat'

I only started DS on fish when he was about 14 mths or so and chicken over 18 mths.

Btw, DH is the fussy one. He doesn't like long beans, brinjals, stems of vege stems like cai xin etc.. DS hasn't noticed that yet, will cross the bridge when we arrive there.

Yes I agree with simple2005. We may have to 'appear' to like vege/fruits even if we don't, in order to be a positive role model to our kids.

I sometimes wonder though whether there is a possibility of him being fussy later on as he grows older, despite me having tried my best in exposing him to fruits and veges.

[simple2005]

Oh yes, fruits of course.


Parents count for more of the influence how a child treats vege and fruits. If parents faces light up and smile when a plate of sizzling oily meat comes, and treats vege-eating as something we all ‘must’ do, then the message is clear, meat is good, vege must eat because we (parents) say so, then it becomes difficult for a child to naturally like veges over meat.

Our family make it a point to look for mostly vegetables. And we do have all fruits for dinner and meals.

Big boy takes lesser variety of fruits, but willing to try occasionally. 2nd one takes almost all kinds of fruits, but is fussy if the fruit isn’t good/fresh, he knows his stuff.

Cheers.

[blueblue]

I also train him to eat diff types since young. Now at 3, he simply loves his vegetable and fruits. He also liked colesaw and salad.


I am pretty surprised he is even game to try chinese parsley. Thought it would be rather a strong tasting veg for him.

One thing though, he never like to eat raw tomato. I never like to eat tomato too.