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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will give context later, just curious, of these foods, if your kids ate them would you have consider them to have eaten a vegetable?

Black beans
Small bits of onions, peppers, garlic cooked into the back beans
Small quantities of spinach (visible) stirred into another dish
Handful of spinach mixed into a berry smoothie (not visible)
[b]Raw spinach as the base for a salad
Purple cabbage slaw
Corn[/b]
Avocado
Tomatoes
[b]Cucumbers[/b] 
Mango
Mango salsa with red onions and cilantro visible in it
Slices of red peppers
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Bold is what “counts” for my kids. I require minimum 5 servings of vegetables and fruits a day as recommended by pediatrician, which usually means 1 serving of vegetable with lunch and 2 with dinner. Other things on your list would count in theory (eg spinach in smoothie, spinach in dish) but it doesn’t sound like you are meeting the serving volume required. [/quote]

Require??? Oh my.[/quote]

Yup! Have you not gotten the same recommendation from your ped?[/quote]

DP. Do you make your kid sit there at the table til they eat everything? Or just make them take a bite or ?? Or do you have super easy/compliant kids who never resist?

I have 1 kid who is a great eater and will generally eat everything on his plate including vegetables and fruits. There are only a few vegetables—spinach and Brussels sprouts—he doesn’t like but everything else he’ll eat. I have another kid who would refuse and fight us on it for every bite so we typically just make sure she tries the food to see if she likes it and we’ll encourage by modifying the dish to make it more appetizing to her (serving w hummus or adding butter, salt, etc) but we dont force her to eat the whole serving.

So how do you go about “requiring” your kids to eat certain foods?[/quote]

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