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Home » Tips & Tricks for Fussy Eaters » 5 Easy Ways To Get Your Kids To Eat More Fruit & Veg!

5 Easy Ways To Get Your Kids To Eat More Fruit & Veg!

January 18, 2017 by Ciara Attwell, Updated March 12, 2020

5 Easy Ways To Get Your Kids To Eat More Fruit & Veg

We all know that eating fruit and vegetables is good for us but in reality it’s not always so easy to convince the whole family, and it can easily feel like you are going into battle at every mealtime!

Here are my top tips for getting your family eating more fruit and vegetables without even a hint of bribery in sight!

1. Juices & Smoothies

Juices and smoothies are a great way of getting some of your five a day into your family’s diet.

On the whole, kids tend to be mesmerised by “the magic” of juicing. It may be far easier to get them to drink a tasty and colourful fresh juice or smoothie containing not only fruit, but also vegetables, rather than sitting them down to a plateful of “the yucky green stuff”.

Here are a couple of links to easy & nutritious juice & smoothie recipes to try:

Frozen Superhero Smoothie

Carrot & Orange Juice

2. Get them involved!

Kids love to be involved and to be given the opportunity to make their own decisions (who doesn’t right?!).

Let them choose a new fruit or vegetable to try each week and get them involved in the process of preparing and/or cooking their choice (with adult supervision obviously!).

You only need to walk down the aisle of any large supermarket or look online to see that there are so very many different fruits and vegetables out there from all over the world that you might not have considered before.

And with technology these days it’s easy to find out how to prepare, cook and enjoy something new!

3. Play with your food!

As a kid, one of the very many phrases you probably remember hearing A LOT is “STOP playing with your food” or words to that effect!

And as a parent yourself now, you too probably find yourself uttering those very same words to your own small people!

But food should be fun, an enjoyable experience and not something to be dreaded by parents and children alike.

There are literally thousands of ideas online on how to be creative with fruits and veg to help kids see that fruit and veg needn’t be boring. Here are a couple of examples:

Eggs in a Red Bell Pepper Flower

Rice Cake Animals

4. Get them asking for it!

As any parent who has hidden from kids to eat a biscuit will know, kids always seem to want what we are eating!

Kids learn their behaviour primarily from us, and if they see us regularly enjoying all kinds of fruits and vegetables they are more likely to want to get in on the action!

5. Sneaky Veg!

For some reason, vegetables always seem more difficult to get kids to eat than fruit!

Whilst I wouldn’t solely rely on disguising vegetables in food, it can be a very easy way to get some nutritious goodness into them without a battle.

Here are some recipe links for sneaky veg ideas:

Sweet Potato Pancakes

Secret Veggie Muffins

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Comments

  1. Anonymous says

    June 22, 2020 at 4:37 pm

    really helpful

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  2. Veronica says

    March 20, 2018 at 2:30 pm

    Thanks for posting this. We definitely need some tips in our house as we have 3 veg hating children so I’ll be grateful if even one of these tips makes a difference!

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Hi, I'm Ciara! I'm a food writer and cookbook author and I'm always looking for new ways to make food fun and interesting for kids! I specialise in fussy eating and share tips and tricks to get your kids eating better along with lots of family friendly recipes. Read More…

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