I don't think you have anything to worry about. You may have substituted, but you replaced it with something  that's good for her. In our house, I ask my kids to at least try a new food a few times. After that I accept that it's just not to thier liking and let it be. Most of the time after several months if I try that same food with them again, they'll like it.

No i dont think so .I understand what your saying about making her fussy but you substituted the veges for something just as nutritious not junk food.My daughter also would rather have cut up meat,tomato,cucumber and babana than mashed potato and peas.Although varying your childs diet will help to discourage her declining good food in the future. But you sure fed her something good not bad.I was force fed beans as a child i hated it and was made to sit for hours till i finished all it did was drill into me that i better eat the food or sit there.....but you dont want to do that ,thats for sure.

my son is a difficult eater to say the least, likes fruit snags, chicken and thats about it. For ages I gave him a sandwich for tea (yes I know thats not good) just to stop the 2 hour battle. But 2 things I found helped. one make it fun, the old thing of havng eyes and ears etc on the meal does help. My mum does mashed potato as the face and uses veges for hair etc my son eats this without a whinge. The other thing which I do that my ex disagress with is I look at the pros and cons. By that i mean my son hates brocoli, I could fight for an hour and have him heaving all over the place or I could give him a similar vegie with the same goodness ie beans. Then he has a choice brocoli or beans. This has been fantastic for us. He now eats sweet potato, potato, pumpkin, carrot corn and beans instead of cauliflower,brocoli and brussel sprouts. My parents forced me to eat brocoli and such for years and I vomited at most meals  - I cannot see the point of this.

I dont see anything wrong with what you did. I am suprised how much my son loves vegetables he loves corn, baby corn, asparagus (I dont like it but cook it for him and I pritend that I am eating as I dont want my son to say well you are not eating and why should I) also broccoly, cucambers, peas, carrots and potato are his most fav. also fruit expecialy bananas when they were $18 a kilo.

I dont think I ever cook anything without veg in it. and he would also eat them on their own like corn for a snack or carrots. just provide variaty and choice (like have steemed veg say carrots, peas, broccoly so if they dont like one they can eat the other)

No i dont think you wrong , i always putting drifrent things on the plate for my kids .Sometimes they try it  other  times they dont but at least they getting drifrent food to try .

                                                     At least in time they try it and you get to know what they alread dont like

Hi
Jalan often will have only meat for dinner as that is all she wants......
Luv Deb

Hi
Do you realise tomato is a vegetable and a fruit...along with a lot of other stuff
It's good food you gave your child.....we do the same thing as Jalan doesn't like vegies
We often put a carrot stick or something different on her salad plate to see if she will try it...somedays she does most she doesn't
My husband eats boiled carrots once in a blue moon a bit of mashed potato or a slice of lettuce and pineapple
His idea of vegies is chips...(they are made from potato he rationalises)
He's healthy....jsut a fussy eater
It is no use forcing her to eat what she don't want.....contrary to belief they will not starve if they don't get 5 veges 2 fruit every day........
You are doing well
Luv Deb

Hi  i don't think there is any right or wrong way  to feeding your children as long as they have the choice of things they like and dislike then in time they try all of it and just like us adults the do and don't like things
keeping in mind they say to offer a child different foods ten times before they really know if they like it,and as long as they are eating regular healthy foods with the odd bit of junk here and there
then i'm sure all will be  fine
good luck and try not to be so hard on yourself

No you didn't do the wrong thing. My suggestion to you is to offer her the vegies at every meal aswell. I did this with my son Chase and the first week he didn't eat it at all but eventually he picked and chose what he liked and didn't like. Now he will eat broccoli, eas and corn.

Hey go easy on yourself. You fed your child good food and the choices were both healthy.

I read a recent articly where something like 25% of children in Australia aged between 4 & 11 yrs had never eaten a vegetable and appox 33% in the same age group had never eaten fruit. Amazing as it seems this was fact. I find it crimnal neglect and abuse that parents can be so negligent in this area.

Your concern over vegies or salad doesn't put you in this bracket. You are obviously aware of the importance of food and diet in raising a healthy and well balanced child. The old adage, "You are what you eat!" is so true.

In my teen years I opted for a very unheathy diet and so became depressed and anxious. My whole life took a downward spiral because i was eating crap and so became crap. It took a near suicidal experience and addiction to snap me out of it and alter my diet. I went vegan for several years fasting for weeks at a time. Eventually I detoxed and cleansed my system. However over the years I slipped back into a high fat diet again, paying the price and having 5 stents placed in my hears at 54 years of age. My recent and beautiful wife of 5 years was a vegie addict and got me eating stemmed vegetables, which I initially detested. Now 5 years down the track I eat them for lunch every day and am thriving and healthy.

Our creator made the foods we should eat. However man in his great wisdom though he could create better and so made processed food. Better?? Wrong !!! Stay with the foods we were created to eat and you can't go wrong. 

little grand-daughter is the same way... her mum offers her some cooked veg but they always end up on the floor; lately we've opted to givng her salad veges just like you... it is so healthy, easy to prepare & beats having the children only eat chips, etc. I think you doing a TOP job