At a certain age, your little one could decide not to eat vegetables anymore ... This situation is boring and unpleasant for the whole family. To avoid "beat" with each meal so that your baby eats his vegetables, here are a few tips to make him want to taste them!
A tip to avoid this reluctance: the development of the taste palette
During the food diversification led by the child, you will offer a large number of foods in different forms in order to perfect baby's taste palette. The development of the taste palette of your child will then allow you to avoid reluctance to your little end of eating a food that he liked before. Until his 3 years, make your child discover as many flavors as possible with the foods offered in different ways!
Cook with your little bit
Family culinary activity is perfect for developing your child's curiosity while sharing your good recipes! By involving your little one in the preparation of meals, he can discover foods before they are transformed. He will also have the opportunity to prepare the meal for the whole family that he will be proud to taste later!
Cooking with baby is also a nice solution to make him want to eat what he has just prepared with you.
Vary the appearance of vegetables in baby meals
It is important to offer baby vegetables under different textures. Sometimes we like a vegetable when prepared in a certain way as some people like raw and not cooked tomatoes. Try several types of cooking for the same food to weave your child's curiosity and make him discover the vegetable in all its forms. For example, the carrot can be raw, steamed, in the pan or in the form of puree! Each cooking is a different experience in the mouth.
Play with the presentation of foods in the baby plate
To give your baby the desire to eat vegetables, you can play on the presentation of foods on his plate. Indeed, it is much more fun to eat zucchini in the shape of fries! Do not hesitate to play with the shape of food, but also with the colors on the plate! A plate filled with color will more attract your child's eye.
Hide vegetables in baby meals
When your baby sees a vegetable on his plate, does he refuse to eat it? It is important that your child eats it for their vitamin intake. You can compose full meals by hiding the vegetables in recipes! Make carrot pancakes, spinach muffins and why not pumpkin dumplings. In this way, your child can again discover the taste of vegetables without knowing that he eats it. A nice way to offer vegetables simply to your little one that will be able to feast on!
Show your child
You don't like vegetables much and your plate never has one? It is normal that your baby does not want to eat vegetables. Children grow up by reproducing parents' gestures. If you don't eat vegetables, why should your baby do it? By showing the example of your child, you enlarge the chances that he eat vegetables with each meal.
You now have all our advice in hand to make your child want to eat vegetables, test and you will surely see a good difference.
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