It’s the age old question: How do you get your kids to eat their vegetables? Popeye did his best to spread a love of spinach and Jerry Seinfeld’s wife helped us learn how to sneak them into their food, but to instill a lifetime of veggie loving in our kids is much simpler than people might think.
You just have to make them feel involved in the process and they’ll look at veggies in a totally new way. I explored that topic in my latest eHow article: The Trick to Getting Kids Eating Their Veggies Is Easier Than You Think.
What kid doesn’t like to play in the dirt? I don’t know about you, but playing in the dirt was high on my priority list when I was a kid. In fact, one of my favorite childhood memories was helping my grandparents harvest fruits and vegetables from their backyard garden. Apples especially, because my grandmother and I would make homemade applesauce together every year in her kitchen.
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Julie says
This is absolutely how I get my almost 3 year old to eat veggies. If I serve him a carrot from the store it’s “I don’t like carrots.” But take him out to the garden to pull a carrot from the carrot bed and he’ll eat it all the way to the carrot greens. Works like a charm.
Madam Chow says
I agree. Another way is not to have kid food and adult food. Food is food. My mom told us she was not a short order cook, period. We were expected to eat, and if we didn’t like it, then wait until the next meal. It helped that we had a big garden and got to help in it!