Tips to Let Your Kids Eat Their Veggies
Fast foods and junk foods are now taking the place of healthy foods in the menus of children. So now, it is more of a mission to make them eat the right kinds of foods, the reason why crying and screaming is a routine for you and your toddlers when you asked them to eat their vegetables and fruits.
How would you make your children to follow you? Well, follow these simple tips and your house will be forever peaceful when it comes to eating veggies.
1. Mix their veggies into their favorite foods. Kids only eat the food they want, their favorites. To make it hassle-free, why not mix their veggies into their favorite foods, surely they will eat it without question because it is their favorite.
2. Familiarize your kids with vegetables one at a time. It is fact that we, adults know that not all veggies taste great. What you need to do is to make them familiar with the vegetable, telling them the benefits it gives to our bodies. When they are acquainted with its look and taste, it's the time when you would introduce another kind of veggie to them continuing the cycle. Kids usually don't want to eat vegetables in groups, take it slowly they will get used to it.
3. Give vegetables silly and funny names. Kids won't eat ampalaya, that's a fact. So instead of telling them that they are about to eat this kind of vegetable, tell them they are about to devour the green icky wrinkly monster, so their imagination would start rolling. You made them eat their veggies and play with their imagination as well.
4. Cut the vegetables into interesting shapes and sizes. Definitely this won't bore your kids, think of a plate full of different shapes and sizes of colorful veggies, you too would want to eat that, right? In that way they will eat the start-shaped carrots and heart-shaped tomato. It may be quite difficult but once your child finishes the whole plate, all your efforts will be worth it.
5. Bring them along when you buy your vegetables. Make them accompany you in marketing, the things they will see will fascinate their young minds. Let them help you to pick the veggies. When you get home, tell everyone that your child is the one who picked the veggies, which will make him proud so he will eat the vegetables.
6. Do what you preach. Children imitate what they see in adults. So, if you want them to eat their vegetables, begin with yourself. Let them see you finishing all your veggies and loving every piece of it because it helps you to crush all those bad monsters. When they see you with such great enthusiasm they'll copy what you did.
7. Give them rewards. Be straight to the point; tell them that if they eat all their vegetables they will get the chocolate bar or any dessert that they want. In this way, both of you will be happy. Other than giving desserts as rewards, you can also tell them that they can play, watch their favorite cartoon or TV show and some other things they really want to do.
8. Serve vegetables differently. Remember this: don't serve vegetables the same way over and over again. Vary it. There are many ways to do this some are steaming, mashing and grilling. You too won't eat the same dish, the same goes with your kids.
9. Prepare veggie juice. Choose vegetables that can be made into juice, of course not ampalaya! In that way, your kids would think that they are just drinking juice but instead, they are getting a dose of vegetable juice.
10. Don't raise your voice, make a compromise. Kids usually don't follow your orders when you did it in a high voice, even us, adults don't want that kind of treatment. Ask them in a nice way and meet halfway. It will take time but the fact that you are being agreeable to them will make all the things fall into their right places. Your kids will come to realize that what you're doing is for their advantage.
So, there it goes simple tips that will help you to make your kiddos eat their veggies. No more crying and fighting whenever vegetables are served. Just be patient for "patience is a virtue".
So get up and devour that green wrinkly dinosaur together with your children, yummy!
How would you make your children to follow you? Well, follow these simple tips and your house will be forever peaceful when it comes to eating veggies.
1. Mix their veggies into their favorite foods. Kids only eat the food they want, their favorites. To make it hassle-free, why not mix their veggies into their favorite foods, surely they will eat it without question because it is their favorite.
2. Familiarize your kids with vegetables one at a time. It is fact that we, adults know that not all veggies taste great. What you need to do is to make them familiar with the vegetable, telling them the benefits it gives to our bodies. When they are acquainted with its look and taste, it's the time when you would introduce another kind of veggie to them continuing the cycle. Kids usually don't want to eat vegetables in groups, take it slowly they will get used to it.
3. Give vegetables silly and funny names. Kids won't eat ampalaya, that's a fact. So instead of telling them that they are about to eat this kind of vegetable, tell them they are about to devour the green icky wrinkly monster, so their imagination would start rolling. You made them eat their veggies and play with their imagination as well.
4. Cut the vegetables into interesting shapes and sizes. Definitely this won't bore your kids, think of a plate full of different shapes and sizes of colorful veggies, you too would want to eat that, right? In that way they will eat the start-shaped carrots and heart-shaped tomato. It may be quite difficult but once your child finishes the whole plate, all your efforts will be worth it.
5. Bring them along when you buy your vegetables. Make them accompany you in marketing, the things they will see will fascinate their young minds. Let them help you to pick the veggies. When you get home, tell everyone that your child is the one who picked the veggies, which will make him proud so he will eat the vegetables.
6. Do what you preach. Children imitate what they see in adults. So, if you want them to eat their vegetables, begin with yourself. Let them see you finishing all your veggies and loving every piece of it because it helps you to crush all those bad monsters. When they see you with such great enthusiasm they'll copy what you did.
7. Give them rewards. Be straight to the point; tell them that if they eat all their vegetables they will get the chocolate bar or any dessert that they want. In this way, both of you will be happy. Other than giving desserts as rewards, you can also tell them that they can play, watch their favorite cartoon or TV show and some other things they really want to do.
8. Serve vegetables differently. Remember this: don't serve vegetables the same way over and over again. Vary it. There are many ways to do this some are steaming, mashing and grilling. You too won't eat the same dish, the same goes with your kids.
9. Prepare veggie juice. Choose vegetables that can be made into juice, of course not ampalaya! In that way, your kids would think that they are just drinking juice but instead, they are getting a dose of vegetable juice.
10. Don't raise your voice, make a compromise. Kids usually don't follow your orders when you did it in a high voice, even us, adults don't want that kind of treatment. Ask them in a nice way and meet halfway. It will take time but the fact that you are being agreeable to them will make all the things fall into their right places. Your kids will come to realize that what you're doing is for their advantage.
So, there it goes simple tips that will help you to make your kiddos eat their veggies. No more crying and fighting whenever vegetables are served. Just be patient for "patience is a virtue".
So get up and devour that green wrinkly dinosaur together with your children, yummy!
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