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Monday, August 19, 2013

Ways To Get Kids To Eat Veggies

By George Dodson


You probably one of those kids who always reminded by parents to eat your vegetables to have a strong body.

It's actually a fact that many foods taste awkward specially some of the vegetables. Regarding the taste, this will be up to the person eating the vegetable.

It is a fact that vegetables are essential to the health. Equipped with vitamins and minerals, vegetables are a must eat and should always be added in our daily meal. You can see a variety of colors, textures and shapes present in vegetables.

Today, there are about enumerable ways on how we can obtain these essential nutrients and vitamins however, taking it from all-natural sources is still best and most efficient way of ingesting these requirements in our body. Knowing this, we want our children to eat vegetables. Question is, how do you get kids to eat vegetables?

For starters, you can start with the vegetables that doesn't taste too awful for children then try to make modifications for other vegetables. You can try putting sugar on your meal or add squash. You might saute carrots in butter and other flavors such as garlic and, which modifies the taste and makes them more palatable. You can opt for cauliflowers or broccoli since these vegetables are palatable for children when sauted or cooked with various sauces. Saute as well as meals with sauce are the best way to conceal the bitter as well as other unpalatable tastes in vegetables..

As most of us will attest to, most of vegetables taste all right in their natural state. Nature seems to have a way of making them taste that way. You can actually eat off the vegetable right off from its vine just like the tomato for example. Depending on how they're grown, carrots have a delightful sweet taste when eat raw. However, this is not the case with regards to root crop veggies such as turnips and rutabagas.

Like potatoes and squash, these can be prepared with butter or other seasoning and taste is not bad.

Boiling vegetables is probably the worst way of making it edible. If you choose to saute your vegetable, you'll have a better taste and the essential vitamins and minerals will retain. You can also have a better taste if you prepare your vegetables Al Dente style or half cooked.

Compared to all other foods, vegetables remain the best since they posses the most nutrient, mineral and vitamin content. Kids don't always like vegetables due to their unlikely taste however if you can mask the taste with a taste that they love then you'll sure to feed them with any vegetable. Through this, you'll be able to guarantee your child's' healthy well being.




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