Most parents would worry that if they keep
their children from eating those fatty foods that they love, and only offer
vegetables, that the children will starve, or have nutritional deficiencies. These parents feel that the kids will just
not eat the food. If you think about it
this way, how much nutrients are they receiving from the fatty, processed foods
now? If their diet consists of French
fries, mashed potatoes, apple sauce, chocolate pudding, and maybe chicken
fingers, how could it be worse if you only offer fruits and vegetables? Sure, maybe they will demand to have the
foods they like, and not eat. They will
eventually get hungry and if you keep offering fruits and vegetables and do not
give in, you will see that they will begin to enjoy it, especially if they see
everyone else in the family eating healthier.
Incorporate bean soups, such as yummy
lentil soup and if that doesn’t work make your lentil soup into a “lentil burger”. You may have to gradually change their eating
styles. Try making fresh bean and/or
vegetable soups with some cheese sprinkled on it. Make sure it is tasty, and not too
spicy. Make homemade pancakes with wheat
and only sweeten it with pure raw honey.
Make fruit shakes and throw in a carrot or romaine lettuce. Make tasty
salads with homemade dressings….and also make faces out of the tomatoes and
cucumbers and carrots. Make tasty salmon
and have them try it.
There are so many possibilities and recipes
that you can try. Do not give up on your
child because they have shown a dislike for a vegetable or fruit. Just eat it around them and watch them ask
you for a piece. Keep offering it to
them at dinnertime and ask them to eat a couple of bites.
The focus is to keep introducing them to
new foods so that they develop a taste for natural foods that we as humans were
meant to eat.