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[Chrissi]

DJ hates veggies and lives on fruit. He takes a daily fluoride multi-vitamin, so I don't stress it a lot. I've found that he'll eat veggies if they're in a recipe that he's helped to make. I choose the recipe and buy the ingredients and DJ has to follow the recipe because it's "against the law" to leave ingredients out. (Okay, so little white lie about that, but he's 5. What does he know? It's in his best interests. )

Having helped with it, he's a lot more likely to eat something if he doesn't think I'm trying to pull one over on him by sneaking veggies in. I think he just prefers knowing where his foods come from and seeing it go from whole food to his plate makes a big difference.

If all else fails, I blend slightly over-cooked veggies in the Magic Bullet, add some avocado and light mayo, and slap it on a grilled cheese sandwich that DJ calls a Cheesie Greenie. We are trying to put some weight on him as he hardly eats anything, so that may not work for every kid.

We have to keep changing up the solutions as he gets older and his tastes change. He'll eat edamame and bamboo shoots in a heart beat now - just not all the time. Slather stir-fried veggies with yellow curry and you'll be lucky to get the spoon and bowl back from the little Hoover. Can't do that every day, but once a week or so we can get a serving or two into him. I gotta pick my battles carefully.

Good luck, Dawn!

[JoanW]

Try the new V-8 V Fusion drinks as a way to introduce veggies to them. But watch out for the sugar. Always check the sugar content in juice drinks.

You also need to watch their fruit intake. You can't equally substitute fruit for veggies because of the difference in sugar content. Which is why fruits taste sooo much better than veggies.

[djstweety]

When my kids were little..I had simalar concerns...doctor told me not to worry, The kids will eat what the body needs. and they are in the 30's now and very healthy and are both on a health kick right now....who whould have thought.

[disneyqueenmum]

Originally Posted by clio

No real advice but one of my brothers was like that growing up. Now he's the opposite way. He only eats healthy food and his DD's were never allowed to even eat candy at home. My mom making him sit at the table until he ate his vegetables. It didn't work because he was more stobborn that her. He sat there until bedtime and still wouldn't eat them.
Liz

Sounds like my newphew who existed solely on chicken nuggets until he got into bodybuilding in high school. He just graduated from college and he is a poster child for Mr. Healthy!