Every parent wants their child to grow up healthy. Everyone knows that the guarantee of health is balanced and proper nutrition. Vegetables and fruits - this is the main component of a proper and useful diet. Only now the children sometimes do not understand this, because they primarily think about the taste of a product. If your child refuses to eat fruits and vegetables, then you should read some recommendations, thanks to them your child will be able to love vegetables and fruits.
1. Take care that the vegetables and fruits are always available to the baby. Do so that the small handles fit these products. For example, carrots cut nibbles, and cucumbers - ringlets; buy small tomatoes, and small cherry tomatoes. Fold the workpieces in plastic containers and store in the refrigerator, so that at any time you can get them and offer the child.
Fruits should also always be a friend - wash, dry and cut apples and pears into slices, and tangerines, plums, bananas and other fruits (all depends on the season) put in a special vase for fruit.
Buy a large grapes (purple, green, red, blue), wash, separate the berry from the bunch, spread out nicely on a plate and in each stick a toothpick. Such an unusual approach can interest your baby.
You can use interesting cutting. Get special knives for cutting cucumber, pineapple, melon, etc. Perhaps, it will be to your child's taste, and he will want to eat a few bits of such unusual delicacy.
2. You must make fruits and vegetables more delicious . Of course, this is a trick, but completely harmless. After all, the result is important to you. For example, try the fruit to sprinkle a small amount of a mixture of honey, cinnamon and lemon juice. To become more delicious vegetables, you can use sea salt, toasted sesame seeds and crushed dried herbs. Prepare such a sweet mixture: a tablespoon of honey, a pinch of cinnamon and half a cup of yogurt. Perhaps the child will like to dip the fruit and eat them.
Try to use garlic. Many babies just baldeut from the sharp smell of garlic, however strange and surprising it may sound. Even if you have a lot of time, try to quickly cook this sauce: chop the chubby chicken and add it to half a glass of unsweetened yogurt or sour cream. Then send ΒΌ teaspoon of pepper, salt and two tablespoons of chopped green onions. All carefully stir and try to give with fresh vegetables to your baby. You can sauce like this and fill a salad. If the baby has not finished the vegetables, then you can safely send them to the dish and serve it with this sauce. And then cut the fresh vegetables.
Now it has become very fashionable to do the mud at home. It is a fruit puree made in a blender. You can combine any tastes, everything that is vamuodo: kiwi, bananas, oranges, apples. Choose more preferences for oranges, kiwi, grapefruits and bananas, this is vitamin C in its pure form, which is so necessary for children. Of course, such smoothie will be a bit sour, but you can fix it by adding a couple of spoons of sugar.
Vegetables can be baked in the oven. For example, peel the vegetables, cut them, lay them on a baking sheet, top with cheese and send them to the oven. Thus, the slices of vegetables will become crisp and golden in color.
3. Choose the right fruit and vegetables for children in the store . Take only those products that are characteristic of the season. Local vegetables and fruits that are ripe in their own time without any chemistry, contain fewer possible nitrates, moreover, they have a more pleasant taste, which is very important for children. If this is possible, then try to buy products in general, not in markets and shops, but among local people. Especially it concerns seasonal and perishable berries and fruits: strawberries, plums, peaches, blueberries, raspberries, apples. If you have in the city in the markets sell vegetables and fruits to proven farmers, then do not get the opportunity and buy food for children.
Let the little ones into the garden
Children are more likely to eat vegetables and fruits when they grow their own or at least participate in their cultivation. You can allow the child to grow greens on the windowsill or let the child himself put the bulb in the jar to grow a green onion. You can take your baby with you on a greenhouse tour. Let it help you pour tomatoes and cucumbers, but only without fanaticism! Do not force the child to work, for him it should be interesting and funny. 93% of American sudovidov say that their babies love vegetables!
Replace the basket with a basket
Much more often, fruits are taken from a basket, not from metal bowls and enamel trays.
Take note of age
At each age, a person has his own preferences. Quite small children eat vegetable purees without problems and whim. After all, it is the vegetables that begin to feed babies, so start with a little age to give the baby zucchini, pumpkin and carrots.
Find the reason for rejecting vegetables and fruits
Try to understand why the baby refuses these products. There are only five main reasons: the fear of a new, too much food, the regime is broken, not tasty, distractions. When you understand the reason, you will be able to cope with it with success.
Start showing pictures and cartoons
If the characters of cartoons weave spinach and watch out for suck, then the kids will start eating vegetables, imitating their pets. In children's camps, educators are constantly preparing with children, arrange tastings, show cartoons. If you do not want the baby to watch TV, then look for a good illustrated book. If the child looks at beautiful pictures, maybe he will want to try what is painted.
Offer vegetables to the kids when they are really hungry
Everyone noticed that before dinner, children eat carrots with more joy and appetite than after borscht?
Playing hide and seek
If the kid flatly refuses to eat vegetables and fruits, try to play hide and seek with him. Put food in your favorite places, favorite foods.
Hitrite cooking
- For example, when making cutlets or meatballs, add grated carrots, potatoes or zucchini.
- When baking biscuits or pies, add grated carrots, banana puree, prunes or any other fruit pulp to the top.
- If you are going to make a pizza, then add a little more fresh grated or chopped vegetables, which will not notice under the syromonikto.
- If the child is very fond of sandwiches, then add to them slices of tomato, cucumber, grated carrots or lettuce leaves.
- Do milkshakes, which will be whipped in the blender berries and fruits.
- Make fruit jelly with pieces of fresh fruit.
- Celery chop, and add it to the cottage cheese.
- You can bake potatoes with cheese and sausage.
- Make ice cream from fruit juice and fresh fruits. It's tasty and useful.
Tipspsychologist
If you have decided to teach your child love of vegetables and fruits, keep calm, do not show any excessive emotions, do not shout and do not bribe the child. He just has to understand that such foods should be in his diet and there is nothing fatal or bad in this.
At one meal, give the baby several fruits and vegetables at once, but in small quantities.
Eat lots of fruits and vegetables yourself, giving an example to your children. If there are also older children, then they can become a good example for imitation.
If the child does not want to eat a fruit or vegetable dish, then you can gently say that there is no more food in the house for today. Nestoit scandals. When the baby is hungry, he will certainly eat.
Cook together with the child. They just like to cut fruit and vegetables.
Take your baby with you when you go to the market or the grocery store for groceries. Let it put them in the basket. Maybe he will manifest the desire, buy a coca-some fruit or vegetable and ask you to cook it.
Play in colors. Let the kid himself take a few oats of yellow color, for example, banana, pepper, lemon and pear; or let him stop at a red color and take a tomato, pepper, apple and strawberries; or only the green products - onion, cucumber, kiwi, peas, will be put into the package.
The most important thing is not to give up! Often, a new taste can only be liked from the third or fifth time. Offer to the kids new vegetables and fruits, combine them, season with sauces, and creatively.