How do I get my 4 year old to eat vegetables?

Answer 1

i have this problem with my 3 year old, its so hard and i feel people think i'm a crap mum as she wont even look at them! even when i weened her she refused them! but what i do is everyday i do a cooked meal with veg and always put it on her plate. she has just started to eat mash!! huraaarraayy!! its only a tiny bit but as she trysit i dance around and clap and tell her she can have a nice treat afterwards (sometimes choc, or a sticker or a trip to the pak ect) i also hide veg in meals for example i do a lot of pasta dishes and grate in carrott swede ect so shes getting the veg then! i also so give he veggy 5 vitamins you can get the at the supermarket she thinks they are sweets and has one a day!
its hard but best thing i have learnt to do is not stress too much about it as long as you no your child is healthy! after all i never ate veg untill i became pregnant and i'm fine fit n healthy

Answer 2

Unfortunetly no matter how small you chop them up kids somehow find them!! it amazes me how they do it!! Think the best option is to blend vegetables down to a complete puree and mix it in a with a sauce or gravy. Still put some on their plate as an option and try not to make to much of a big deal out of it, obviuosly if they deside to eat some then say well done but the more you go on at them to eat their veg the less likely they are to eat them, especailly at that age. Slowly make the sauces or gravy slightly lumpier untill it's no longer a issue.

Answer 3

attempt to stumble on a vegetable that he will devour... quite regularly mum and dad will stick with an same vegetables which the youngster has already rejected. imagine outdoors the container. although judging by technique of what you've reported that's not in basic terms vegetables that you're having problems with. that's surely diverse meals, you purely have not said because the purely new meals you've tried to introduce are vegetables. modern-day him with an entirely diverse meal even even if it really is vegetable loose and also you'll likely get an same reaction. Please do not beat your self up about this. it really is really a complication-free cycle which maximum young children in some unspecified time sooner or later and to a pair volume will flow via. children are creatures of habit and if not presented to quite some food at an early degree will regularly reject all although the accepted meals- which on your sons case ensue to be quite extreme in fat (that are in themselves addictive). the purely options i visit upload are slicing the meals into diverse shapes inclusive of your son helping. regularly if children are in touch interior the making of food then they're a lot extra open to attempting it as they comprehend what it really is and the position it has come from quite then them being presented with it on the table. This procedure starts acceptable on the procuring the position you son then has some administration over the vegetables picked... the purely different innovations quite are rewards yet you've already reported that those are not operating... nevertheless stick with them nonetheless because if something else works then your son has the added bonus of the benefits after! wish this helps

Answer 4

Try them as a smoothy.If you blend them they can be made as a drink.Also try bubble and squeak.Mash the cooked vegetables,mix with an egg and fry in small round shapes.
You can also make a shephards pie,or cottage pie and mix carrots,parsnip or swede with the potatoe to spread over the top.If they all fail,how about stir-fry. You can use peppers,mushrooms etc in a stir-fry with beansprouts. If all else fails,there is always the favourite pizza.Let the children help to put on there own toppings.Again peppers,mushrooms and tomatoes.They can experiment with different veg.Make it exciting without being boring.

Answer 5

I had this problem with my 2 year old son, and was told my my health visitor to carry on putting them on his plate, coz one day he would eat them..well, i did this and lo and behold one day he did..now he eats any veg apart from broccoli-not that i blame him!- its because kids need to see the same food up to 20 times before they actually wanna taste it, thats what the health visitor said, and she was correct!

I never made a big deal if he never ate the veg, never even mentioned the fact that it had not been eaten, and he just decided one day, that he would eat it!

It took about 4 months, but i am so glad i did it, coz he is not bothered by veg at all now!

Answer 6

chop them up so small that they cant find them, or do things like make smiley faces, make some sort of pasta bake perhaps and use brocolli for hair, carrots for eyes, be creative they really respond to that!

if not there is always bribary but my mother never made me eat them because she was made as a kid and got a phobia for vegetable sand have only recently started eating them; obviously the worst case but its a possibility

good luck! its an ongoing battle for every parent out there!

Answer 7

That is the thing that a lot of parents have problems with. Because really eating veggies is a habit that should've been started a loooooooong time ago. and all parents are guilty of giving junk food, because it's convenient for us and it tastes good to them, but at the same time, you can't give them cookies and french fries and then hand them a carrot. you can always get it in juice form. if you have a juicer or something like that, they can get their servings that way. they won't probabbly eat it plain, so you might have to disguise it at first, as long as they take a bite or eat it, it's just something they have to gradually get into eating... like apples, carrot sticks or celery-add peanut butter and raisins. a simple salad with just lettuce and apples. broccoli and cheese... it's not gonna be easy, but you can't confuse your child and give them too much of both. crackers, animal crackers, juice, flavored water, fruit, cheese, and veggies will help with the transition, but you got your work cut out for you.... good luck.

Answer 8

well sometimes my daughter (5) messes around and decides she doesnt want to eat, shes not a fussy eater but i find that playing games with her clears her plate in no time. why not give this a go, what ever her/his favourite animal, make it imaginary, and put a bit of food on the childs spoon/fork and say (my daughters imaginary animal is a dog called woof woof) woof woof better not come and eat that, and when you look again its gone, and you sigh making out woof woof has been there again, and you repeat this sometimes looking under the table for them, (the animal) etc etc.
it may sound dumb to some people but it helps when my daughter playing up better than an empty stomach.
Goodluck

Answer 9

this question has plagued women for decades, kids do not like vegetables that is the truth. and lets face it some do not taste good either. Try melting cheese on the stuff, and Parmesan too. melt some butter salt and pepper what ever it takes i guess.

Answer 10

Put Cheese on them. My 4 year olds favorite veggie is broccoli. She started with putting cheese on it, and now only eats it without. Everything's better with cheese!