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How to get your kids to eat those greens!

Do you have a hard time getting your family to eat veggies? Have you tried EVERYTHING? Here are some of my tips to help your family get those veggies in.

  1. Lead by example. Monkey see monkey do!

  2. Get them involved. Have them help you make lunch or dinner. Children are more invested in a meal if they help with it.

  3. Enforce the one bite rule. Then introduce that veggie at least 8-10 more times. After enough exposures, the food will be more familiar to the child and usually, they begin to rate it more favorably.

  4. Don’t make the decision for them. Don’t assume your child doesn't like certain veggies. For example, I eat spinach a lot and never thought to give some to my children some until one day they asked if they could try it. Now they love to eat raw spinach. I guess this is where I can go back and say start with number 1 (lead by example).

  5. Make it cute! The teacher comes out in me here. Assemble cute smiley faces, ants on a log, pretend to be a walrus, you get my drift. When you make things fun it gets your children excited and creates a fun feeling around healthy foods.

  6. Hide spinach. It’s one vegetable you can’t taste when hidden in a smoothie.

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Being a mom of 3 small kids I get how hard it can be, trust me, I’m far from perfect but every day it’s a learning experience & I’ve learned to be thankful for it. Remember when introducing these new rules/foods consistency WILL always win the race. Don’t get mad, remember this is new to your child, make the most of it.