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We all want our kids to eat healthy foods, and that includes vegetables. But anyone who has a child will know that for many things, wanting your kids to do something usually results in them not wanting to do it!
For my son, it's eating vegetables. My first
child, my daughter, was a great eater. She was happy to try anything that was put in front of her, and most times ate whatever she was given. This included vegetables. My son, on the other hand, was a different story! He is very good with "simple" fruits, like apple, banana, orange and strawberries, but for anything more exotic (kiwifruit? blech!) or vegetables, it's usually a big "NO!"
To get him to eat more vegetables, I devised a great way of "hiding" them in his food. I would cook up a whole heap of vegetables - potato, pumpkin, zucchini, carrots etc. Then I would puree them in the blender. From there I would then use them as a paste for homemade pizza - with a bit of tomato paste mixed in, and then topped with ham and cheese.
Or, I diced them finely before cooking and then combined them with grated cheese, rolled them in puff pastry and made veggie rolls, like sausage rolls but without the meat. Except, we never called them "vege rolls" - they were "cheesy scrolls" as even the mention of vegetables would put him off.
Now he's two, and is much better about eating a wider variety of fruits, but the veges are still a bit dicey. I've also got a new hiding spot for veges - inside home-made hamburgers! Grated zucchini and carrot go really well in them, and he's none the wiser.
(April 2006) (
