Vegetables
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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 -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Yesterday, I made pasta. So I chopped all the veggies I want for the kids into the size of the minced meat, which means, you will end up thinking it is part of the minced meat. Then the tomato paste basically cover them all. Well, I cooked the whole packet of pasta. It finished.
Lots of veggies went into the stomachs. Don’t know whether they know or not leh… -
2ppaamm:
That is a good way too - Undercover Veggies !!Yesterday, I made pasta. So I chopped all the veggies I want for the kids into the size of the minced meat, which means, you will end up thinking it is part of the minced meat. Then the tomato paste basically cover them all. Well, I cooked the whole packet of pasta. It finished.
Lots of veggies went into the stomachs. Don't know whether they know or not leh...
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My kids went through a few phases.
From eating veges to not eating to eating selected veges to wanting to try most veges.
Basic rule at the dining table, you eat whatever is served to you. And we will naturally make sure that there are veges that are easy on the kids palate, like spinach, broccoli, carrots, cabbage.
Since DH and I are trying to change our eating habits, we have been having mainly veges for dinner, usually in the form of salads and DD is also starting to much on raw veges which in the past she never did want to try. -
I always get compliments from strangers when they see my boys eating vegetables and I always wondered why the big fuss. Now I know.
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Jennifer:
I always get compliments from strangers when they see my boys eating vegetables and I always wondered why the big fuss. Now I know.
Haha... I get that sometimes, too.
It's kinda scary what many places serve for meals in Singapore, so much meat and hardly any vege.
Cheers,
Chubby -
super_dad:
All kids hate them. Does yours? Mine finds it torturous to eat ladie's fingers. Dunno why....cos it is my favourite. Especially in curry fish head.
it's really gross....slimy and leathery at the sme time....YUCKS!!
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