All loving parents understand that the child needs only useful food. But as you know, useful - does not mean tasty. Therefore, many face such a problem when the child refuses to eat vegetables. Useful food does not seem to the children delicious, they are capricious and refuse it. How can you teach your child to use?
Why do not children want to eat vegetables?
There is a very good pattern - if parents do not eat and eat properly, then the children take an example from them. Why does the child eat a tasty meal when mom and dad eat fried potatoes with pork? Let's think, how do you eat?
For example, consider snacks. What do you prefer: a bun or a delicious vegetable salad? And if the answer to the question is not in favor of a salad, then to wonder why the kid does not want to eat vegetables. After all, parents for him - an example for the sake of. In childhood he still does not understand what is useful and what is not. He looks at his mother and father.
It is quite logical that parents want to provide the child with all necessary minerals, vitamins and trace elements. Therefore, it is necessary to introduce vegetables into your diet and eat them with the baby. You must also love these foods, in any other way. While you yourself do not start eating vegetables daily, your child will not be either. Let's face it, if the mother gives an apple or carrots for a snack, and she herself will not eat chocolate, then the child will not like it. It turns out that he must crunch the carrots while you are enjoying the sweet, not useful chocolate. If you want the child to eat properly, the diet should be the same for the whole family.
We accustom to the vegetables
How to teach your child to vegetables? It's not as easy as it might seem. This work requires considerable time.
To begin with, you should replace sweets and cookies with vegetables. Everyone has a vase with favorite sweets for the baby. It is very important that the child can not get it himself. Today it is worthwhile to put a vase on the open area, but instead of sweets and pechenyushek fill it with fresh vegetables. For example, it could be tomato, peas, carrots and sweet bell peppers. Such varicoloured vegetables will attract attention. And do not hesitate to take the company for yourself. Show your child that such food is not worse to taste than sweets. If you put a vase in the child's room, sooner or later he will try the obsessive, you can not doubt.
Maybe, of course, all the vegetables to him and not have to taste, but something just like it. And very soon the kid himself will ask to give him more. It is necessary to understand that a child does not eat vegetables because of his harmfulness, but because he does not yet understand this taste. But sooner or later he will understand that the vegetables are tasty.
Now you should draw your son to help you cut vegetables. Let the child himself cut a cucumber or pepper for a vegetable vase. When you and yourself are hungry, do not run to the kitchen for cakes. Therefore, ask your child to make you a vegetable sandwich or a delicious salad.
Let the kid himself choose vegetables for this. Help him decorate the salad with leaves and greens. It will be very beautiful and colorful. Let the baby, that the food can be so colorful. Suggest and he will try etidivnye sandwiches or salad. Praise your assistant.
When a child completely refuses to eat vegetables, he can not shout at him and punish him. It just needs a different approach. Try to accustom gradually. First, you can make dishes from cooked vegetables and preferably in the Tertoma. Pancakes from pumpkin puree, carrot-chocolate potatoes, soup-puree from cabbage, etc. will be very useful. If you add vegetables to many people, then very soon the child will not notice that he has eaten them.
Secret recipes: what to give to the child?
So, it is difficult to teach a child to vegetables. Therefore, if you do not get to do it openly, you will have to hide vegetables in different dishes. He will not understand how he will start eating them. Now your child's favorite dishes will be useful for him. So let's look at some interesting recipes for good housewives.
- Carrot cake. Delicious and popular dessert for baby. Instead of butter it is best to add mashed potatoes from baked apples, so it will be less greasy. Very satisfying and useful.
- In the pilaf you can add grated zucchini. The child will not notice that there are vegetables there, because pilaf will not change to taste, but it will become much more useful.
- Macaroni is one of the most popular dishes for all children. You can add cheese sauce with tomatoes to the dish. It's very tasty, the baby will like it.
- Casserole from potatoes and meat is the best lunch for a baby. To make a dish more useful, half a potato should be replaced with puree from boiled cabbage.
- Soup puree is a real salvation for moms. Here you can use any vegetables you like. All mixed well in a blender and add sour cream. And the soup is ready. Children like this dish very much.
We draw conclusions that it is not worthwhile to force a child to eat vegetables. Use tricks and tricks. And do not forget that you are an example for the sake of.