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Monday, 12 August 2013

Ways To Get Children To Accept Veggies

By George Dodson


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

Let's face it, some vegetables just don't taste good. Of course it depends on the person since taste vary with individuals.

We already know that eating vegetables bring about many benefits. They contain vitamins, essential minerals, and fiber which is necessary for a healthy diet. 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. Thus, we really need to teach our children to eat veggies. 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. This might include putting such things as brown sugar on 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..

Of course, a lot of us will also agree that other fruits taste better as they are or uncooked. Nature seems to have a way of making them taste that way. The tomato is one of the many vegetables that tastes really good without being cooked which you can simply eat right from the garden. 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.

In the same manner as potatoes and squash, these vegetables can be prepared by adding seasonings and sauteing for a better taste.

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.

Let's face it, vegetables are nature's way of providing you with the essential vitamins and minerals plus the fiber that you need for a healthy diet. 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. This way, you know your children are getting their essential vitamins and minerals in a form that nature provides for maximum digestion.




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