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Originally Posted by Vicky.
Wish my kids were like this. They are always given a few different veg as part of their main meals. Never forced to eat it (I don't pressure them to eat anything, besides telling them that if they don't eat the healthy stuff they aren't getting desert...if that counts as forcing  ), but its fairly rare that they will eat it without some form of bribing, and sometimes refuse even with that.
I was a dodgy kid like this and the picky eating is still with me tbh. I used to refuse all veg besides carrots, where my brother and sister ate veg a fair bit (but still not as often as my parents would have liked) so it clearly wasn't anything my parents did wrong if 2/3 kids were healthier eaters |
There is nothing wrong with carrots. If you liked them I'd just make sure they were there. If you are a fussy eater it is possible your kids could just follow and pick up on it. No two people are exactly the same and there will always be some who don't like certain things. I just think that people make a lot out of the eating vegetables and it often becomes a pressure or a thing, kids are very intuitive. I've even had kids round for tea in the past who have eaten broccoli and had a mother point blank refuse to believe it.
But they ate it happliy, probably because the other kids were eating it, all big eyed about who shrunk the trees.
Another thing I've always done is used plenty of veg in the cooking, curry with broccoli and cauliflower chopped in is really nice. If it all comes out of a pot in a nice sauce half the time they don't even notice. Also a lot of kids seem to prefer raw veggies with a mayo dip but that's ok, probably more healthy than cooked if you don't overdo the Mayo.
Have you ever tried tossing your cabbage in a little (tablespoon) olive oil and water? It Cooks in less than five minutes in a frying pan. It is really nice. Go for a light green cabbage the ones that look a bit like an iceberg lettuce. I hated brussel sprouts so I roast them with the potatoes, they are fantastic roasted.
I didn't eat greens much as a kid, partly due to being a bit neglected and partly because when my mother did cook she stewed the life out of it. But I found as an adult that I quite liked them if they were cooked nicely. And at the end of the day if they will only eat carrots and sweet corn and peas, give them that.
And runner beans, love runner beans! Throw them in the curry and the stir fry! Put them in the spaghetti sauce so they have to wind them on a fork with the spaghetti.