I was wondering the other day what "tricks" you may use to get your children to eat all the things they should.
I have three children and they are quite good at eating most things, but they go through phases on what they will and won't eat. I have developed a few ways of sneaking healthy things into them and I wondered if anyone else had any ideas.
A big thing is that they aren't too keen on lots of green leafy veg,they will eat broccoli, but that does get boring after a week with little else. I have started cooking tonnes of various green leafy veg, pureeing it and then mixing it into things like tomato based pasta sauces and things.
One daughter will eat/drink smoothies so I can get some things into her that way. Luckily they both like houmous and will often do quite well eating raw veg dipped in houmous.
Does anyone know whether it still counts as one of their five a day if I puree fruit and make a vegan crumble with it? They don't have sugar in anything else so I figured it was probably an okay way to get fruit into them, even if it is as a pudding?
Any ideas would be brilliant! Obviously I would rather they just ate veg as it is, but they are still quite young and so this is the best I can come up with for now. My youngest daughter also won't eat soup at all, so I can't even puree up a load of things and feed it to her as soup!
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