Tips To Getting Your Child To Eat Vegetables

We all know that once children hit around toddler age they start to lose interest in their vegetables, here are some tips that might help you out.

• You can use any cooked leftover yellow/white vegetable by mashing it up, mixing it with eggs, and cooking it with something like a pancake or you can bake it in a muffin tin. You can also mix it in with mashed potatoes if your child likes them.
• You (or you can let your child) sprinkle shredded cheese over each spoonful of cooked vegetables.
• Puree steamed vegetables and add them to a simmering broth to make a creamy soup.
• A good early finger food for your picky eater is "spaghetti squash". You cook it whole in the microwave until it is soft. Then you cut it in half, remove the seeds, and use a fork to remove the flesh. It comes out like spaghetti strands. You can serve it with butter, margarine, a little olive oil, or spaghetti sauce.
• Try green noodles. They are made with spinach.
• Add finely chopped vegetables to a cheese omelet.
• Hide moderate amounts of pureed vegetables in meatloaf and spaghetti sauce.
• Hide some pureed vegetables under melted cheese on pizza
• Hide some pureed vegetables in hamburger meat before you cook it.
• Try serving a vegetable desert(pumpkin pie, carrot cake, etc).
• Make sweet potato chips. Place 12 thin, unpeeled sweet potato circle slices on a microwave rack. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar and microwave 4-5 minutes until dry. Rotate during cooking. Let cool before eating.

Hopefully this will help you get your little one to eat vegetables.