Anonymous
02/05/2023 14:17
Subject: Veggie preparations your picky kids love
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The reason most kids don’t like veggies is due to bitterness (many plants make toxins that taste bitter as a defense mechanism), adults have just gotten used to these tastes. Many veggies also make kids feel lousy.
Focusing in Whole Foods, meats, fats, some dairy and fruits will provide better nutrition to growing children versus a “balanced” standard American diet of highly processed carbs, GMO grains and veggies and seed oils. Nutritionally dense food tastes good and kids will eat it. Think about that for a moment. This challenges the norm but could vastly improve your family’s life and longevity.
Funny because the new strategy of just feeding babies everything that adults eat mean that my 1 year old grandson will eat all veggies. His tastes haven't been acculturated to sugar and salt, so the veggies taste fine. It's been fun to watch him grab the green beans or Brussel sprouts. Favorite = guacamole.
Newsflash. Parents have always fed babies what adults eat. Since the dawn of time. They just don't like all of it. Just like adults.
Seriously. Do you think we enjoy finding different ways to get our kids to eat vegetables? Why WOULDN’T we just feed them what we ate if it were that easy?
Also, for both of my kids the pickiness got worse after age 1. Maybe your grandson will continue enjoying all veggies, some kids do. Or maybe he'll start refusing foods he used to eat like mine did. Hard to say at this stage!
It does get worse after age 1, usually around 2-2.5, but parents have a fork in the road where they can go along with it and let the kid have dino nuggets and cheese for every meal, or keep reintroducing foods and ride out the picky stage. "Always have something on the plate your kid will eat" is good advice when dealing with pickiness. Also I suggest parents take a hard look at how good their cooking/seasoning is. If someone was serving me plain steamed-in-a-bag broccoli, I wouldn't be impressed either -- roasted is usually better than steamed for flavorful veggies. (That being said, my preschooler can't get enough of those crappy Birdseye steamed carrots).
And worth noting that not everyone can afford to just keep hoping their kid will eat new things next time, for fear of wasting food. I'm admittedly lucky I can sacrifice some unwanted asparagus if DC doesn't like it.
Sure. Although we've found with "always have something on the plate your kid will eat," that's what they eat, and never the vegetables, which we serve as well. Sometimes it's a very, very, very long game and I dislike the implication that if kids are picky it's because parents just haven't bothered trying to serve them stuff (not your implication, but the PP earlier).
Will try the squash recipe, thanks.
Anonymous
02/05/2023 14:03
Subject: Veggie preparations your picky kids love
PP above here.
OP, this butternut squash is a hit with my whole family: https://food52.com/recipes/32091-parmesan-crusted-butternut-squash
I would also try and arrange the veggies in an appealing way. My DD is much more likely to eat all her veggies if they're in a pretty rainbow on her plate. Ratatouille is an example!
OP, this butternut squash is a hit with my whole family: https://food52.com/recipes/32091-parmesan-crusted-butternut-squash
I would also try and arrange the veggies in an appealing way. My DD is much more likely to eat all her veggies if they're in a pretty rainbow on her plate. Ratatouille is an example!
Anonymous
02/05/2023 14:01
Subject: Veggie preparations your picky kids love
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The reason most kids don’t like veggies is due to bitterness (many plants make toxins that taste bitter as a defense mechanism), adults have just gotten used to these tastes. Many veggies also make kids feel lousy.
Focusing in Whole Foods, meats, fats, some dairy and fruits will provide better nutrition to growing children versus a “balanced” standard American diet of highly processed carbs, GMO grains and veggies and seed oils. Nutritionally dense food tastes good and kids will eat it. Think about that for a moment. This challenges the norm but could vastly improve your family’s life and longevity.
Funny because the new strategy of just feeding babies everything that adults eat mean that my 1 year old grandson will eat all veggies. His tastes haven't been acculturated to sugar and salt, so the veggies taste fine. It's been fun to watch him grab the green beans or Brussel sprouts. Favorite = guacamole.
Newsflash. Parents have always fed babies what adults eat. Since the dawn of time. They just don't like all of it. Just like adults.
Seriously. Do you think we enjoy finding different ways to get our kids to eat vegetables? Why WOULDN’T we just feed them what we ate if it were that easy?
Also, for both of my kids the pickiness got worse after age 1. Maybe your grandson will continue enjoying all veggies, some kids do. Or maybe he'll start refusing foods he used to eat like mine did. Hard to say at this stage!
It does get worse after age 1, usually around 2-2.5, but parents have a fork in the road where they can go along with it and let the kid have dino nuggets and cheese for every meal, or keep reintroducing foods and ride out the picky stage. "Always have something on the plate your kid will eat" is good advice when dealing with pickiness. Also I suggest parents take a hard look at how good their cooking/seasoning is. If someone was serving me plain steamed-in-a-bag broccoli, I wouldn't be impressed either -- roasted is usually better than steamed for flavorful veggies. (That being said, my preschooler can't get enough of those crappy Birdseye steamed carrots).
And worth noting that not everyone can afford to just keep hoping their kid will eat new things next time, for fear of wasting food. I'm admittedly lucky I can sacrifice some unwanted asparagus if DC doesn't like it.
Anonymous
02/05/2023 13:51
Subject: Veggie preparations your picky kids love
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The reason most kids don’t like veggies is due to bitterness (many plants make toxins that taste bitter as a defense mechanism), adults have just gotten used to these tastes. Many veggies also make kids feel lousy.
Focusing in Whole Foods, meats, fats, some dairy and fruits will provide better nutrition to growing children versus a “balanced” standard American diet of highly processed carbs, GMO grains and veggies and seed oils. Nutritionally dense food tastes good and kids will eat it. Think about that for a moment. This challenges the norm but could vastly improve your family’s life and longevity.
Funny because the new strategy of just feeding babies everything that adults eat mean that my 1 year old grandson will eat all veggies. His tastes haven't been acculturated to sugar and salt, so the veggies taste fine. It's been fun to watch him grab the green beans or Brussel sprouts. Favorite = guacamole.
Newsflash. Parents have always fed babies what adults eat. Since the dawn of time. They just don't like all of it. Just like adults.
Seriously. Do you think we enjoy finding different ways to get our kids to eat vegetables? Why WOULDN’T we just feed them what we ate if it were that easy?
Also, for both of my kids the pickiness got worse after age 1. Maybe your grandson will continue enjoying all veggies, some kids do. Or maybe he'll start refusing foods he used to eat like mine did. Hard to say at this stage!
Anonymous
02/05/2023 13:40
Subject: Veggie preparations your picky kids love
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The reason most kids don’t like veggies is due to bitterness (many plants make toxins that taste bitter as a defense mechanism), adults have just gotten used to these tastes. Many veggies also make kids feel lousy.
Focusing in Whole Foods, meats, fats, some dairy and fruits will provide better nutrition to growing children versus a “balanced” standard American diet of highly processed carbs, GMO grains and veggies and seed oils. Nutritionally dense food tastes good and kids will eat it. Think about that for a moment. This challenges the norm but could vastly improve your family’s life and longevity.
Funny because the new strategy of just feeding babies everything that adults eat mean that my 1 year old grandson will eat all veggies. His tastes haven't been acculturated to sugar and salt, so the veggies taste fine. It's been fun to watch him grab the green beans or Brussel sprouts. Favorite = guacamole.
Newsflash. Parents have always fed babies what adults eat. Since the dawn of time. They just don't like all of it. Just like adults.
Anonymous
02/05/2023 12:26
Subject: Veggie preparations your picky kids love
Anonymous wrote:The reason most kids don’t like veggies is due to bitterness (many plants make toxins that taste bitter as a defense mechanism), adults have just gotten used to these tastes. Many veggies also make kids feel lousy.
Focusing in Whole Foods, meats, fats, some dairy and fruits will provide better nutrition to growing children versus a “balanced” standard American diet of highly processed carbs, GMO grains and veggies and seed oils. Nutritionally dense food tastes good and kids will eat it. Think about that for a moment. This challenges the norm but could vastly improve your family’s life and longevity.
Funny because the new strategy of just feeding babies everything that adults eat mean that my 1 year old grandson will eat all veggies. His tastes haven't been acculturated to sugar and salt, so the veggies taste fine. It's been fun to watch him grab the green beans or Brussel sprouts. Favorite = guacamole.
Anonymous
02/05/2023 08:16
Subject: Re:Veggie preparations your picky kids love
I've seen kids get interested in vegetables if they help prepare or grow them. We had a small community garden plots, and kids loved to pick cherry tomatoes, peas then eat them. Even if you don't have a place for a garden, there are vegetables that can grow in pots on a patio. Growing plants can seem a bit magical to younger kids.
There are kid friendly knives for chopping for carrots, cucumbers, etc. The kids could add cinnamon and honey to sweet potatoes. I see kids are a bit more willing to taste foods when they are part of the process of making a dish.
I've read some of the articles from this nutritionist, and I find some of her ideas helpful. https://kidseatincolor.com/recipes/
There are kid friendly knives for chopping for carrots, cucumbers, etc. The kids could add cinnamon and honey to sweet potatoes. I see kids are a bit more willing to taste foods when they are part of the process of making a dish.
I've read some of the articles from this nutritionist, and I find some of her ideas helpful. https://kidseatincolor.com/recipes/