I got my son good

[conny63malies]

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This is how we do it, too. You simply are NOT allowed to refuse a food unless you try it and prove you don't like it. My kids, however, will eat just about ANY vegetable...they LOVE them. Of course, we just started them eating veggies from the beginning and they think it is normal. It is more just when trying something new.

My two girls eat any veggie no question asked. I think it started when was in the hospital when he had RSV. After that we were just happy that he would food and put weight on.

 

[BorderKelpie]

I got my daughter to eat green beans be handfeeding them to the dog and her older sister. She watched for a while and I guess got jealous because we were eating and playing with each other and basically ignoring her. She finally reached for one and we turned it into a game. Thank goodness the dog loves veggies. I also noticed, it helps if they grow their own veggies. I started a veggie garden with them - the rows were a little crooked but the kids were so proud of what they had grown, that they tried everything and liked most of it. If you have limited space, we actually grew a small veggie garden in a plastic wading pool. Planning on doing that again this year so my (used to be non-veggie eating) daughter can have her very own garden and keep a journal for the Environmental Club at school.

 

[AngelzFyre]

My son doesn't like many veggies either but loves meat, so in my chili I use refried red beans and refried black beans with the meat and crushed tomatoes. It makes a very thick soupy sauce and he "loves the chili without beans". You can do this in other sauces as well. It's not the taste he doesn't like...it's the texture. This way he can't even tell the beans are in there.

 

[ChickenFanaticAB]

i am more of just the make him eat them mindset as opposed to hiding them, but then you risk him hating them for a very long time....my friend is just now getting over not hating fruits and veggies and she's 20 years old...but anyway, he loves potatoes, so you can try having peas and potatoes. I used to love peas mixed in with my mashed potatoes (still do) and it's really fun too because you can make smiley faces, your name, etc. out of the peas in the potatoes...Boca burgers are much better than regular burgers, so that's a start....I'm not sure what else to tell you, hiding them is ok, but it would definitely be better if you could find something that he will actually eat! Maybe just keep trying different things until he likes something (and make him at least TRY the stuff) Or, just make him eat a brussel sprout and he might have a lot more appreciation for all of the other veggies!

 

[Chicken Lil]

Gosh, does this bring back memeories of when my kids were little.

My kids had to eat what was in front of them for dinner, or go without anything else for the night.

That backfired when my first DD, who DESPISES brussel sprouts, started vomiting up all of her dinner when I made her eat one sprout. Nothing like having one person puke on the dinner table to set off everyone! That was the end of that rule!

Anyway with DD number two I told her that the vegtables were weird things. Like peas were frog eyeballs, green beans were lizard tails, sauted onions were squid legs, etc. Well she thought that was soooo cool she would eat everything on her plate.

By the time she was old enough to figure out they were actually vegtables she decided she liked them anyway.

 

[Ec_Prokta]

Brussles Sprouts are really good if you add a single ingredient...

Sugar. I'm not kidding. A pinch or 2 of sugar in a saucepan full of sprouts works wonders!

 

[FrenchHen]

I was forced to eat things to the point of tears when I was a kid, and I'm still picky when it comes to veggies.
Since we were both raised that way, we don't force our kids. We encourage them...give the veggies funny names, etc, but we don't force it. They get enough fruit and other good stuff that they eat well.

My doc says it's a texture thing rather than a taste thing and not to force it.

Works fer us, but every family is different.

 

[mirecipes]

My dad tried to get us to eat stuffed grape leaves once..Me and my brother both had the barf problem..

My mom (they were divorced) would tell my brother that fried liver was "dragon meat"
That got him to eat it..I knew better, but I liked it anyways

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