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Shvoong Home>Medicine & Health>Introducing Vegetables to Kids Review

Introducing Vegetables to Kids

Article Review   by:samkind     Original Author: www.busycooks.about.com
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Introducing Vegetables to Kids You most probably remember the first time you took a taste, it was so horrible! Introducing vegetables to a kid who has been a picky eater can be a difficult task. You can’t take away the fact that most parent and kid seem to have more struggles over vegetables than any other kind of food. Kids have sensitive taste buds, their vision may have slightly soft focus, but their sense of taste and smell is much sharper than ours. When introducing new foods to your kid, the best way is to desensitize them to the taste. This can be accomplished by using the new food for their first bite of solids each day for ten consecutive days. The 1st day may take first mouthful but spit it out. The 2nd day, the kid usually swallows the first mouthful, but may refuse any more of that food. The 3rd and 4th days, will probably take a few bites, but will undoubtedly want a food to which they are already accustomed. If you continue this pattern for ten straight days, most kids will acquire a taste for the new food – even for vegetables! If you have a kid who has decided already that he/she doesn’t like vegetables, try some of these pointers that might help you: Offer positive encouragement. Don not reward, bribe, or lavish praise. · Don’t force your kid to eat anything he doesn’t like want to eat. Forcing results in power struggles that nobody wins, except to become vegetable hater! · Serve only small portions. Your kid can ask for another one. · try to serve vegetable at snack time · Make sure cooked vegetables are not served too hot. · Avoid making "labels" like “She doesn’t like cabbage," or "He won’t eat anything green.
" · Respect your kid’s individuality. Some kids are more cautious about trying new foods. · If possible, serve vegetables as "finger foods." Even cooked vegetables can be eaten this way. · Kids need regular meal and snack times spaced of 2-3 hours apart so your kid has an appetite when he comes to the table. · Cut food into small pieces a child can manage successfully. · Set a good example. Eat vegetables too. · Serve vegetables in different ways of preparing them. · Pay attention to color and texture of cooked vegetables. Many kids love cooked "crisp-tender" not mushy. Overcooked vegetables lose their attractive, bright color. · Let your kid help choose and prepare vegetables. · Find out what your kid eats at others house. A vegetable you have never considered might be one of your kid’s favorites. While your kid is in the process of learning to eat vegetables, never force him to eat more of a vegetable than they are ready for, but always be ready to scoop up more if they are still interested! Eating habits are learned in early infancy. If vegetables are properly presented and promoted, kids will grow up eating vegetables and loving them.
Published: June 16, 2007   
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