tips to make children like fruits and vegetables

There are many things that you can do to make your children like fruits and vegetables. Usually, they do not like these two kinds of food. Since these kinds of food are very good, making the children like fruits and vegetables is very important. Here are some tips that you can do.

1. Ask your children in choosing menus. Give the options of fruits and vegetables in the list for them. And also discuss the pro and cons in choosing the menus.

2. Get your children involved in the process of the making and the preparation of the food. Starting from choosing fruits and vegetables when you are shopping. This will be interesting thing for the children. In addition, you can also tell them the benefits and advantages of eating the fruits or vegetables that they have chosen.

3. Start with a small portion. If we want to introduce a certain fruit or vegetable to your children, star with a small portion. Give a small portion and let your children decide how much portion that they want to eat. Do not forget to give the praise if the children eat the portion that they have made.

4. Always give your children choices and let them choose by themselves. Enrich the taste of fruits and vegetables to your children by introducing the kind of those two kinds of food.

5. Include the fruits and vegetables in the cooking process of food that the children like. For example, if your children like stew, include carrot, potato, and squash in the stew. This makes there is not only meat that is in the stew but there are other choices in it. If your children like pizza, make the fruits as its topping beside the topping that they like. In addition, you can make snacks such as carrot cake or carrot muffin, squash bread, broccoli pan cake or cream apple soup where fruits and vegetables are cooked so that they are not like the real shape.

Those are some ways that you can do to make your children like fruits and vegetables. Those two kinds of food are very useful for their body. So, make sure that your children like those two kinds of food so that your children will get the substance that they need for their growing.

In short, do not make your children burdened and overwhelmed to the demand of eating fruits and vegetables. Try to change the negative stigma to the taste of those two kinds of food. Always ask your children to get involved in every process that you do. Do not force your children to eat a certain fruit or vegetable if they have tried it and they did not like it.

Finally, do not be disappointed or frustrated if your children just like some fruits or vegetables. There is still another way. You can give your children the additional vitamin which contains fruits and vegetables that are very useful for their body. So, do not be worry mothers.