Apr 24 2006
Not until you eat your vegetables
Fuller has decided that vegetables are offensive. If he had his way it would be bananas and cheese for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Cheerios are ok, waffles are fine, and meat? chicken? Forget about it. Yogurt has become a fickle food item.
But for some reason I just can’t seem to get over the fact that he really isn’t eating vegetables. We like green beans, corn, broccoli, cauliflower but Fuller just isn’t having any of it. It might be a phase and yes Fuller has a multi-vitamin to try to make up for something, but still a vegetable is a vegetable and the sweet cartoon characters don’t add up enough for me.
My creative husband realizes that this is a concern and decided to try to do something about it. We melted down some cheese, pureed some vegetables, put them together and let them um… congeal back together in an edible form. This vego-cheese is used for grilled cheese sandwiches.
It fills Fuller’s stomach and satisfies my desire that my child eat some vegetables.
So, I am asking… what do you do to get your child to eat vegetables? (And french fries do not count.)
We simply offer dessert.
Emma loves a competition or challenge, so the rule is eat everything on your plate (usually veggie heavey) and then you get dessert - which is typically nothing too special, often a single gum drop or a half a cookie.
If the presented vegatable offering is too horrible, then at times dessert is glady forfeited. These days broccoli, beans or carrots are gladly eaten and it’s not an issue.
As far as the boys go, they pretty much take Emma’s lead.
Hello Fellow Covenant Alumna!
Do PICKLES count? That’s about the only veggie my kids eat (if fries don’t count) because they are ALLERGIC to most others (Really. I’m not kidding.). Oh yeah, and CATSUP=vegetable, right?
Will he eat fruits? We love fresh fruits–they are dessert for us much of the time.
Seriously, they will eventually eat if they are hungry enough. If nothing (junky) else is offered after a while a bite of broccoli and those carrots start looking pretty good.
Great to see you and your cute kiddo!
Amy Lake from Covenant days
Pickles have been offered, but I don’t know if they count as veggies. He hasn’t actually eaten them. And I he isn’t that into catsup yet either. We do fruit- apples and bananas. He finally ate a grape the other day. It’s still a battle… we are gong to bake some veggies into bread soon.
I’m a little late on the commenting, For the longest time Morgen would only eat peas. And like her Dad they have to be frozen peas not the stuff in the can. She will also eat cooked carrots with butter on them. The other thing she likes is Vegetable soup. Her green beans have to be cooked a certain way before she will devour them. I think that is about all for the veggies.