Teaching kids to eat vegetables: make fun meals
| April 7, 2011 | Filled under Food and recipes, How-To Articles, Teaching kids to eat vegetables |
In my quest to figure out how to get my kids to eat vegetables, I determined that there are basically two steps:
- To get them to try a new vegetable
- To keep serving it often so they develop a liking for it.
Have I been successful? To some extent. Both parts are not easy. We have to get creative with food to get the little ones interested. These funny creations are not magic tricks; it is still a challenge to get a two-year-old and a four-year-old to try some vegetables.
Same strategy works for fruit. I promise to have more vegetables in the second post featuring fun food creations.
This is a plum and a kiwi flower with organic organic HappyBaby Puffs in the center of the petals.
This is a buckwheat house with some goulash on top. I like making roasted buckwheat as a side dish. Did you know buckwheat is actually a fruit? And it is quite healthy.
This is a watermelon Pizza made with bananas and blueberries.
This is a cottage cheese smiley face with a broccoli nose.
I made it at a Sweet Tomato restaurant.
This is two caterpillars made with melon ballers. Faces are yogurt and eyes are peas.
This is a Hawaiian Hula Dancer. It certainly does not look quite attractive but kids love her anyway.
This is some kind of unknown creature made from a sweet potato.
Stay tuned for part 2 of funny meals.
Other posts from this series:
Teaching kids to eat vegetables: make veggie drinks
Teaching kids to eat vegetables: involve book characters
See, this is the fun stuff I am missing out on because I have a veggie lover. I just plop mine on the plate
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ok, you seriously cannot be complaining about that.
You can throw it on the plate while I need to be coming up with carrot heads or cottage cheese faces, which are very likely to end up on the floor regardless of their beauty
This week I had Lily help me chop veggies for tacos – I tacked the onions and she cut up zucchini and mushrooms. The dang kid ate most of the mushrooms raw before I could cook them! Even Adam turns his nose up at raw mushrooms. I love her
And I am so lucky! I guess she gets it from me, last night I ate almost a whole cauliflower by myself. Mmm, cauliflower!
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Ok – too cute! I’m certainly gonna have to give some of these a try with my 2-year-old
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These are awesome!! Great ideas!
Thanks! I am working on the next edition of edible funs
I make “faces” out of my kids’ food quite regularly as well…might as well make mealtime fun.
I agree, it is fun to play with your food when it comes to feeding preschoolers.
I am working on my next edition of fun meals, which will feature cucumber ships, broccoli forests, pisa tower, and a carrot head
This is such a cute and brilliant idea. I wish my momma has made me eat vegetables like that. I wouldn’t have been such a fussy eater now!
But at least my kids would be lucky to have it this way. Many thanks to you!
[...] I have to add a disclaimer: this method alone might not work for every child. In this case, it would help to use additional incentives, such as preparing meals with kids, making vegetable juices, growing vegetables in the garden with kids, or even playing with food. [...]
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Those are cute! I know kids would definitely munch on those cuties. I guess I have to be creative in preparing their foods.
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