Any devious ideas for hiding veggies?

pigpen

notanewuser wrote: »

2 year olds are notoriously fussy.

Hide his veg now, and he'll still not be eating it at 30.

Let him serve himself, let him play with it, don't put any pressure on him to eat it.

http://parentables.howstuffworks.com/chow/dont-hide-those-vegetables.html

Absolutely agree with this. Currently working on my 9th 2 year old and another turning 2 in a few months.. hide veg by all means but do not take away the visible veg. He will try it eventually.. my son at 21 has JUST started eating carrots.. and realised not only are they delicious they are not poisonous.

He isn't a fussy eater, he is 2 and eating takes away play time and they prefer to play!

I add allsorts of veg to my meals and into mash and bubble and squeak and it goes down. We also offer cooked and raw veg with all meals, encourage them to try it and if they don't then it is take away with no drama.

TDMum

Thanks everyone for the advice.
He gets offered salad veg/raw veg every lunch time and cooked veg with every evening meal so hopefully the perseverance will be the key. My girls will eat plenty veg and ask for broccoli and cauliflower all the time so to have a veg dodger is new to me he's never forced to eat it, we ask him to try it. Sometimes he will, sometimes he won't.

pigpen

I've found my boys more reluctant to try different foods than my girls. Perseverance is very much the way to go.. I find grating rather than chopping the veg to hide works better.. grating mushrooms is fun! (that is for OHs benefit!)

mysk_girl

I just kept offering it, and not making a fuss when it wasn't eaten. Eventually it went in and my 2 (now age 5 & 3) eventually discovered that they like most things. DD age 5 will not eat peas under any circumstances, but apart from that they will both eat pretty much anything. We'll see how my 5 month old pans out, but she's already eating what the others do, just fork mashed, so I'm hopeful...