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How To Get Toddler To Eat Vegetables. Bulk up mashed potatoes with cauliflower. Children are more likely to try a new food if they helped prepare it. Have your child help add and stir ingredients rinse or scrub fruits and vegetables pick herbs off the stem mix a batter or even paint on cooking oil with a pastry brush. Like gardening preparing meals together can be a wonderful way to get your child to eat some vegetables.
Have your child help add and stir ingredients rinse or scrub fruits and vegetables pick herbs off the stem mix a batter or even paint on cooking oil with a pastry brush. Kids love to eat veggies when they can dip them in a flavorful dip or sauce such as hummus ranch dip fruit salsa guacamole or nut butter. Include fruits and vegetables as snacks as well. Shred carrots beets zucchini to add to muffins. Choose fruits that your toddler likes such as bananas or blueberries and add in some greens like spinach or carrots. Bulk up mashed potatoes with cauliflower.
Children are more likely to try a new food if they helped prepare it.
Have your child help add and stir ingredients rinse or scrub fruits and vegetables pick herbs off the stem mix a batter or even paint on cooking oil with a pastry brush. Use your blender or the previously recommended Magic Bullet blender and puree cooked vegetables. Even toddlers can be involved in the food prep process with activities like washing produce pouring in ingredients with. Just preheat oven to 350F. Involving kids in meal-time decisions can help give them a sense of control. Here is one of my favorite recipes for a pretty and flavorful hummus says Sharon Palmer RDN The Plant-Powered Dietitian.