It is the identical outdated story. The wrestle to get your children to eat their greens with out complaining. Most dad and mom search inventive methods to ensure their children are getting correct vitamin whereas not incurring complaints, whining, servings beneath the desk to the canine, or the fantastic coughing of the greens into the serviette. I’ve to confess, my children have been fairly good about consuming their greens. I have a tendency to include them into the principle dish – casserole or stir-fry model. Nevertheless, I nonetheless attempt to discover new and more healthy methods to introduce my children to nutritious meals.

I attempted one thing this month that labored so effectively I simply need to share. My daughter talked about that if I purchased a cucumber and lower it up, she’d eat it for a snack. Now, my daughter is by far my extra adventurous eater, however this bought me to pondering. I’ve lengthy had a kind of Tupperware dishes that has about six totally different compartments and a gap within the middle for dip. I’ve by no means used it a lot, however I dragged it out of storage and washed it up. On the grocery retailer I purchased a purple pepper, a inexperienced pepper, cherry tomatoes, child carrots, and a cucumber. I additionally picked out a low-fat veggie dip. Sunday evening I chopped every part up and put it within the Tupperware. Monday rolled round and I pulled out the veggie tray delivery as soon as the youngsters got here house from camp. I could not consider their response – each of them. They have been truly enthusiastic about this. Actually, between the 4 of us we polished off the tray in about three days. We have been doing this for about 3 weeks now and if I neglect to place out the tray or assume they’re sick of it, I truly hear “Mother, are you able to please put out the greens?” Excellent!!

There have been so many advantages to this. Listed here are a pair:

1. Now that I’ve launched this behavior, the youngsters can get entangled and pick new greens they’d wish to strive.

2. Uncooked greens keep their vitamin higher than when cooked.

3. I munch on them whereas making ready dinner making it much less doubtless that I’ll over-indulge at supper time. I’ve additionally observed that I am not hungry within the night after I’d often attain for a snack.