| Many parents strive to ensure that their children | | | | time to time.Some tricks of trade that you can |
| eat vegetables. Some meet with complete | | | | try to get your child to eat vegetables.- Blend |
| success, others with very little success. Veggies | | | | vegetables in a blender and add them to spaghetti |
| contain many vitamins, minerals and other | | | | sauce or liven up any non-veg dish.- Keep a |
| essential nutrients that a body needs to main | | | | plateful of green salad, either in raw or grated |
| good health and energy. They help protect against | | | | form. You can toss up a salad with cucumbers, |
| the effect of aging and reduce the risk of cancer | | | | tomatoes, celery, lettuce, carrots, cabbage, onion, |
| and heart disease.If you want your child to eat | | | | and radish and so on. You can have salads either |
| vegetables, improve your own attitude towards | | | | at mealtime or in between meals, as a snack.- |
| eating them. Early in age, child tends to mimic | | | | While making sandwiches for lunch, add lettuce, |
| either or both parents for almost everything. If | | | | tomato slice or carrots in between. Chicken, tuna |
| you as a parent dislike any particular vegetable, | | | | or pasta salads taste great with dash of |
| your child will do the same.How you eat and what | | | | vegetables in it.- If your child thrives on noodles, |
| you eat affects your child directly. If you want | | | | add boiled or lightly steamed vegetables to it.- |
| your child to eat something that you dislike, you | | | | While making pizza, add chopped broccoli, spinach, |
| have to make an attempt to eat it first and then | | | | etc in addition to other toppings.- Vegetables with |
| encourage your child to try a spoonful or plateful | | | | a dash of melted cheese added to soups changes |
| of it. It is not easy to get children to like any new | | | | the flavor altogether. |
| food the first time. Keep reintroducing them from | | | | |