how do i get my toddler to eat vegitables?

Answer 1

u eat some and make it seem like they are awesome

Answer 2

Many people don't know this, but during the first few years of life a child's taste buds change quite often. This means that a food they don't like one month they could end up loving the next month. I know of many parents who will spend a week trying to get their kids to eat veggies, the kids won't, and the parents just accept it and drop the subject. What parents SHOULD do is keep trying. Try a different veggie each time you go to the store and rotate which ones you have your child try. Each time make sure he/she tries a whole piece of the vegetable. If they make a face, they are telling the truth that they dont like it. If they just SAY they dont like it, they are most likely being stubborn because they had previously said they didn't like it. If this is the case and you dont see physically that they dont like it, encourage them to try another bite. I promise that at some point they will accept a few and as time goes on they will accept more.
Until this happens, another way they can get some veggies in them is to eat things like veggie chips and freeze dried veggies. I think that in Gerber's Graduates line they have some freeze dried veggies.
Another little recipe I know is Macaroni and Cheese with peas. The two actually go very well together and I know a lot of kids who love it. Many little things like this when you add veggies into favorite foods work very well. Some kids will be fine seeing the change in the food and for others you may need to hide it.
Try it and see what your child likes and stick with it, but don't forget to keep trying new things.
Best of luck and I hope you find something that works!

Answer 3

Serve vegetables at the beginning of the meal when children are the hungriest and most likely to eat.
Sneak vegetables into favorite foods. Add cooked broccoli to quesadillas or thinly sliced and blanched fennel to a cheese pizza. Mix chopped cauliflower and broccoli into a soft cream cheese and spread on a bagel. They won’t even realize what they are eating is a healthful treat.
When you go to the grocery store, let your children pick out what vegetable they want to try that week. Try it every time you go to the store and their veggie-eating repetoire can continue to grow in variety and frequency.
Set a good example and be sure to eat your vegetables, too!
Don’t give up! Even if kids balk, continue to offer and encourage them to try vegetables

It can also help to:

Set a good example by eating vegetables yourself.
Offer low-fat salad dressing and other dips as a side for vegetables.
Mix in vegetables with foods that your child already likes, such as a topping on pizza, extra in spaghetti sauce, or mix in a casserole or soup.
Let your kids grow their own vegetables or visit a farmer's market to buy fresh vegetables.
Provide raw vegetables, such as baby carrots, as a snack.
Offer a lot of choices, provide small servings at first, and keep in mind that some picky eaters won't try a new vegetable until they see it on their plate 10 or more times.

Answer 4

It's really quite easy. My son had this same issue with his 3 daughters; give them vegetables and don't give them anything else until the vegetables have been eaten. The girls are 8 and 10 (twins) and when they eat a meal; vegetables must be eaten before they are allowed to eat anything else. Meat comes next and then starches. No bread until AFTER they've eaten everything else. However, when they were toddlers; my son allowed them to dip vegetables (raw) in ranch dressing first.
Persistence wins every time!
The most important thing to remember; YOU are the parent - not the child!

Answer 5

First, try some of the sweeter veggies if your child likes sweet things---like carrots. Potatoes are usually a big hit with kids, but if s/he doesn't like those, try covering them in reduced fat cheese. Do the same with broccoli. Try putting peanut butter on a celery stalk--both are healthy foods. Most importantly, don't try to force them to eat the food. They will try it when they are ready. Making them eat veggies when they don't want to only instills the desire to push them away even more.

Answer 6

Easy keep them available at every meal, don't make a big deal of it if he doesn't eat them. Try making fun names for them like peas are peaballs in my house used to let her flick them around like balls on her highchair tray made it a game to eat them good luck! Remember the best example is seeing you eat them!

Answer 7

cook veggies like baby carrots, cauliflower, broccoli until tender but not mushy. Let them dip in a low fat dressing but don't give them too much dressing. make your own pizza sauce or pasta sauce using all fresh vegetables and put over a fun pasta, sprinkle with cheese. Hide vegetables in a pot pie, in enchiladas, under cheese, in soup, tossed with pasta. Even if you trick them, it still counts! good luck!

Answer 8

My 18 month old will hold them in her month and refuse to swallow them. When she does this, I send her off to play and when she's really hungry, she comes back and eats them. The olny vegatables she likes are corn and green beans. She likes salad when it has dressing. Try to find out what your child like.

Answer 9

I buy the frozen kind and cook them very soft and melt velveeta on them for my son. he loves them. You may have to get creative and chop them up and hide them in foods like sauces, etc.

Answer 10

Let him starve if he doesn't eat them.