This isn't really a question. I have just been wondering how many parents experience this. My two-year-old god daughter adores broccoli. Yesterday she finished her meal and then had some ice cream on fruit. Just after eating the last bite, she asked for some of the broccoli that was still on the table, and happily tucked in. She will eat cold broccoli as a snack while watching television! This goes for any veggies, but her favorite is crisp broccoli. I can imagine that this is a situation most parents just dream about. Most folks would have to resort to juicing to put an end to broccoli battles at dinner-time. Anybody else who is in this lucky position with a toddler?
My son is 3 and eats anything that's green. He won't touch carrots or anything that is not green except for cauliflower because I tell him it is brocollis friend. I used to fry brocolli in soy sauce for him when he was a baby, I think that's what started it. He absolutely loves his 'brocolli trees'. Anyone have any tips for carrots?! I have tried glazing them with butter and honey (yum) but he won't even taste them!
It's one of the few vegies my boy eats. He used to call it "little green trees" until he learned it was called broccoli. He likes the "little while trees" (which he now knows is called cauliflower) with cheese sauce as well.
Broccoli triggered asthma attacks in the middle one, so I cut it out of the diet, and never really tried with the youngest until he got a bit bigger.
Leisa
My son if he has finished his broccoli will inform the rest of us that we have to hand over ours... He loves it. I have to be careful though because if he has to much he is up with gas for the rest of the night.. He loves it any way I cook it...
Fortunately grub eats virtually everyhting. including frozen peas. The only thing he won't have is fresh tomato. He will only have it cooked.
When I was preggy and fully breastfeeding him, I couldn't eat it. I would get the worst acid reflux and it would go through him like nothign else then the poor bugger would have the sorest red bum.
my son loves it when I cook with broccoli I make sure I use a lot because he would pick them up and eat just that (say str fry) he also eats it raw but always has a diarea after. he also loves raw carrots and potatoes cooked any way (boiled, mash, fryed, baked) but thats about it (I think) but funny thing when he stays with my perents (every thr night and friday) he eats everything.
Hi there - This brought back a funny memory or two for me as my middle daughter has adored broccoli since she was 1 . . . Everytime I was doing the groceries 'd give her a raw bit to suck or chew on while I was shopping. People would stare and often many parents would ask how we managed to get her to eat it as they had not had any luck.
Personally I think if they are used to it them yum yum . . . . . My kids are all big vege eaters except for my youngest who is allergic to more than she can eat . . .
When my two grandchildren came into my care they both did not care for vegetables. Now they eat their vegetables and their favourite is .... yes.. broccoli. My grandson Seth just loves it and will ask for more, and funnily I tell him he has to eat the rest of his dinner before he can have anymore. good stuff.
Both my girls love it and i can never have enough!!! But today i was shopping and i ahd decided to get brussels sprout and tried them on in tonight and they loved it but there dad had to hold his nose and eat lol. The only vegi my girls wont eat is peas and egg plant at the moment.
Mine stopped eating peas for a while but would eat them mashed and mixed in with mashed potato. Also, egg plant she never liked until just recently and she's just turned 4.
haha mac too we thought when he went onto baby fod bro n coli eww he wont like but were trying to encourage a healthy diet he loves it!!!! now almost 1 yr old we still have to buy that its such a big fav he enjoys munching on cucumber too which you'd think bland in taste but who am i to argue ??? i also think kids are intrested in what we eat so our diets changed for the better too...
charlie would have it for breakfast if he was allowed, if he doesn't get broccoli there is a tantrum and he wont stop until he gets it, and he is just like your little one, with charlie you can put a plate of fruit and veg in front of him and you can put a plate of junk and he will go for the fruit and veg everytime,
as my mum keeps telling me enjoy it while it lasts
Mine has had broccoli as a favourite food from the time she first tried it which was probably between 8 and 12 months but I really can't remember lol. She'll eat hers, then mine, then the left-overs. Loves pumpkin, carrot and spinnach too.
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