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30/11/2022

The biggest feeding stress for many parents? “My kid doesn’t eat vegetables.” 🥦🥒🥕🧅🍠 Will you tag a friend in the same boat?
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💫 Please know this truth: your kid doesn’t *have* to eat vegetables to meet their nutritional needs. Yes, you read that right, especially if they love fruit. So let’s breathe a little easier on that.
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Of course we would love them to enjoy vegetables eventually…but it doesn’t always happen right away. Or maybe they ate them ALL as a baby and now will only touch potatoes 🙅‍♀️😍
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A lot of us default to what our parents did when we were little to get us to eat veggies:
➡️ “Eat 3 more bites and then you can have dessert.”
➡️ “You have to finish all your veggies.”
➡️ “I’ll give you more iPad time if you eat vegetables.”
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While this sometimes works in the short-term, in the long-term it can teach kids to eat more than their bodies are asking for and can turn them off to that veggie for good.
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➡️ We’re telling them that veggies = yuck, everything else = yum.
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✨We want kids to be in charge of what foods they put in their mouths and to learn to enjoy veggies on their own terms.✨
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So, what DOES work in the long-run when it comes to sharing a love for veggies with your kiddo?
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1. Repeated, low-pressure exposures. If you want your children to enjoy vegetables, it’s important to serve them often. Prepare them in different, tasty ways. Raw broccoli might not go over well, but roasted broccoli might be much more  tasty.
2. Eat vegetables yourself - kids need to see others eating a less familiar food for them to eat it, too. {If you don’t like them consider just putting them on your plate.}
3. Allow your kiddo to interact with veggies in fun, low-pressure ways. Perhaps they help wash and tear lettuce leaves or cut tomatoes with a kid knife. Maybe they help you pick out a vegetable of every color of the rainbow at the store.
4. Give it time and patience. This is a process, and each day will look different for every kid. Try not to get discouraged.
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We have a bunch of practical feeding therapy techniques we share in our online Toddler/Kid course that can help your child love veggies without pressure or bargaining - feedinglittles.com ❤️