Creative way to get kids to eat their veggies

Life Kit: Parenting

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Kids & Family

4.4 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Veggies help kids grow and develop, but it can be hard to convince them to eat their broccoli. These research-backed tips can help you encourage your kids to eat more veggies — or at least try them.

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0:20.7	Hey everybody, I'm Mariel Segarra.
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0:27.4	Hey, Mariel.
0:28.4	Hey.
0:29.4	So I have something I want to play for you.
0:32.5	This is dinner time at my house with my two and a half year old toddler, Gus.
0:45.2	Sweet potatoes. A sweet potato? I'm going to put one on your plate, okay? No, no. What else have you had for dinner, Gus? Mice and cheese. You had some mac and cheese? Yeah. Okay, no sweet
0:52.7	potatoes. Got it, Gus. Yeah, I think pretty much anybody who's tried to
0:57.3	feed a little kid would be able to relate to that. Yeah, I mean, I kind of can't blame him, to be honest,
1:02.1	but I'm assuming you'd like him to eat some of both. Of course. Nothing against mac and cheese,
1:08.3	but the reality is that he probably hasn't ingested a vegetable, at least in my presence, in at least a year.
1:16.9	What, a year?
1:17.9	I know.
1:18.8	Thankfully, it's actually really common for kids to go for mac and cheese or cracker or even fruit before they go for a veggie.
1:27.0	I actually talked with a clinical pediatric dietitian about this.
1:30.4	Kids don't become vegetable eaters overnight.
1:33.6	When we're babies, we're really used to just a few flavor profiles.
1:37.5	And then when we start eating vegetables, it's just such a different flavor profile that it takes
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