What kind of vegetables do your young kids like?

Question

We get sick of corn, carrots and green beans, but they don't seem to like much of anything else. What other vegetables will your kids eat? Do you prepare it a certain way to make it more appealing?

Answer 1

while I am making dinner in the evening I put out a tray of fresh veggies with dip on the table. It's usually cucumbers, sugar snap peas, carrots, celery and cauliflower. They can snack on the veggies while dinner is being made, then at dinner time I don't have to nag them to eat their veggies because they already did! They love it.

Answer 2

Spinach. I prepare it with low fat ground meat and seasonings to make burger patties. they eat it without realizing that they are eating a vegetable.
You can also buy veggie burgers. Grill them, add a little barbecue sauce and put tasty toppings they like. They will eat them, I can assure you that.
You can also make a puree with vegetables like carrots, cauliflower, etc.. Add a little salt to season it. I use Ms. Dash. When it is ready, serve it in a bowl, with toasted baguette on the side and sprinkle some Parmesan cheese and voilá! Enjoy

Answer 3

My child eats those, also peas and broccoli. One of her favorites is squash. I get the box of frozen cooked winter squash, put it in the microwave with some butter and brown sugar, and she loves it. Something different from the usual veggies, and still quick and easy. Also chopped fresh veggies, like cucumbers.

As for preparing, some of the veggies I chop in an electric mini-chopper, just to make them easier to eat since my child has few teeth. Like the broccoli and french green beans. Also she likes them if I mix them with her mashed potatoes.

Answer 4

Mine didn't like anything. I found it a battle of the wills to try to get him to eat any kind of vegetable. He won! Have you prepared some yams or sweet potatoes? They are really good and are good for you. You could make broccoli and cheese, usually anything smothered in cheese is more appealing.

Answer 5

broccoli
corn
bake potatos
french fries
mushrooms
asparagus sweet potatos
green beans
enlish peas
butter peas
butter beans
cabbage
turnip greens
white beans
brussel sprouts
spinach
navy beans
turnips
carrots
purple hull peas
crowder peas
blackeyed peas
yams
creamed onions
zucchini
baked squash
baked eggplant
fried okra
fried squash
fried green tomatos
fried eggplant
corn on the cobb
bake beans
cole slaw
okra and tomatos

Answer 6

A little in site on children and vegetables.

most children do not get to try a wide variety of vegetables due to the likes and dislikes of the parents. For instance, My parents hated Spinach and also said that I would not eat it as baby food. but when I found this out when I was 10 and asked my mom to get some spinach. She said that she did not like it and if I got it i had to cook it and eat it when she was out of the house. i did and I love Spinach...and have since then. We use to eat allot of collard and mustard greens but after i got the taste of spinach i don't care for the other greens.

When I was in Kindergarten (1950's) I had this teacher that did a case study about kids and vegetables. She brought in a different raw vegetable every day for us to try and we all had to give it a go. Then she followed up for 10 years to the parents to see if their variety of vegetable eating had increased to include most vegetables. And the results were that we had a wider like of vegetables than kids that were not exposed to them.

I think the lady above who puts a tray of them out before dinner is very wise. but i would put on the tray all kinds of vegetables not just the ones that Mom and Dad like to introduce them to the children.

When my oldest was growing up i would make him at least try everything I put on his plate. He was good about this and learned that he did indeed like a variety of foods he thought he did not, he is 30 now.
My youngest, I could not get him to do this to save my life and to this day he is very opinionated in his foods. He would rather starve than eat something that he thinks he does not like, he is 19 now.

P.S. for all green vegetables, Brussel sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower, green beans I put in about a heaping Table spoon of butter, a teaspoon of garlic salt and about a table spoon of lemon juice then cook. This changes the taste of the vegetables and my kids (even the opinionated one eats them this way)

Answer 7

Peas (steamed),

Red pepper, cukes, cherry tomatoes (all fresh or with humus on the side for dipping).

Lasagna with spinach in it.

Veggie soup or chicken soup with carrots, butternut squash , zukes, onions, potatoes, garlic.

Stir fry with rice noodles.

Surprisingly brussel sprouts.

Cole slaw.

Answer 8

they're starting to be up in a short foodstuff era. maximum mum and dad grab some thing on their way living house from artwork to feed their toddlers and 9 circumstances out of 10 it truly is quick foodstuff. they don't delight in good ole living house cooked nutrition as in many circumstances because the "older" era did.

Answer 9

My kids (ages 6 and 2) like raw veggies (carrots, celery, cucumbers, etc.) with dip... kids seem to like anything they can dip.

Answer 10

peas, carrots, sweet corn, cant think of much else

hate green beanz tho