So according to my mother I am apparently not raising my children right because they refuse to eat vegetables. Sorry mom, didn't mean to throw you under the bus but that one cut below the belt a bit...ouch! Still recovering.
Camden will dabble but Decovin refuses. So, besides my current attempts of re-introducing the vegetables in different form, with butter, without butter, with brown sugar, without brown sugar, with salt & pepper, without salt & pepper, sometimes I will mash them up and put them in the foods but if Decovin even so much as sees a green spec of anything he refuses to eat it???? I'll take suggestions, willingly...shoot:
Oh, and my last pediatrician suggested I give them V8 Splash in the meantime...but that has a lot of sugar, etc...so i don't know what to do...
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my kids wont eat veggies either.. Q will now eat some. Mac still wont dont know what to tell you
Nathan is a natural veggie eater. He eats salad and broccoli. Waitresses are always amazed.
Abby is more picky. She is now getting more adventurous, but here are a couple of things that have worked with her.
1. Playful approach. Abby liked Veggietales movies alot, and shortly after "Jonah" we got her to try asparagus by calling them "Jonahs" and pretending she was the whale.
2. Number approach. OK, you are 3 years old, so you need to eat 3 bites. (So if they don't eat 3 bites, no dessert.)
3. Reverse psychology. This is big with Nathan right now. "Don't you eat that carrot! Don't do it! Oh no! OUCH (as they bite into it.) He thinks this is great fun.
G'luck.
Oh yeah. There's always the "Hog" approach. You eat something and pretend it is so dang good that there is no way you are sharing. Sometimes that makes them want it.
Or you can try veggies that don't seem like veggies. Apple chips. Sweet Potato chips. I've even found these things called "Snapea Crisps" which are crispy baked sugar snap peas. My kids will devour a whole bag of those things.
Good ideas!
Wow...that bus is heavy!
Love, Mom
I am thinking that if they will drink the V-8 it would be something. It is not like to have to make them drink the whole bottle each day. The V-8 splash has a fruity taste to it.
Anyway, no big idea's here. Well...maybe... chocolate zuchinni cake or Carrot cake. Yeah it is a sweet...but you know those are things you can adjust the sweetness with applesauce.
Chop mushrooms so small that it looks like ground meat and throw it in burgers or spaghetti.
Peel the zuchinni. It seems to take on flavor of what is around it and the green would be gone??? Take the seeds out and he won't recognize it. Use it in spaghetti sauces. Just a little to start and make it more later.
Abby started liking those Weight Watcher Carrot cakes that are as long as your thumb. (I call them Thumb Cakes). I called the phone number on the WW box and there are no artificial sugars in them.
You have healthy looking kids. They ate the green stuff when they were little bitty so they had it in the start of life. Pat yourself on the back for that!! Not all is lost yet. You can do it!! Be sneaky muwha ha ha ha
Ooo ooo. Just thought of another one, but not sure if Decovin would play along. I was a little concerned that Abby wouldn't want peanut butter every single day at school. So before school started, I went out and got all sorts of lunchmeats. I told her we were going to have a Taste Test to see which ones she liked for her lunchbox. She thought it was a big game and loved it! She ate meat she had sworn she didn't like and approved just about all of them.
Maybe it would work with veggies. You could play it up like he is an official taste tester. Make him a special hat to wear or a badge. Let him try a bite and maybe he could have a clipboard to "write" which ones are approved. Could be a start.
P.S. If he eats mashed potatoes you could mash cauliflower and mix it in. With butter or gravy - taste is minimal change....
Those are some great ideas! Thanks so much! I will try them out! Oh and last night I made meatloaf and mashed up some carrots and put it in the meat and they were none the wiser and ate it up! I also made some asparagus tips and Decovin actually ate 3 of those! Only b/c I hid them on his fork with mashed potatoes covering them...haha! But hey, it's a start?!
They also have veggie chips or something like that you can try. They look & taste like potatoe chips. Eric's sister's little girl isn't a big veggie fan either but that's what they do. Will Decovin consider corn or corn on the cob? Have you read Jessica Seinfeld's book on how to hide veggies in things? I've heard it's good.
Deceptively Delicious...was thinking about buying that the next time I was at a book store! :-)
Not sure what to tell you.. I lucked out w/ a kid who loves fruits and veggies. Hopefully #2 is the same!
Good luck!
Jen, could you order that book online?
All of those ideas are good ones. Glad the carrots in the meatloaf worked. And the cauliflower mashed potatoes. Clever ways to get veggies in the kiddos...even the big kid hmmm?
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