Comments on: Eat Your Veggies, Dammit

By: Sara in FL

Sara in FL — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:04:09 +0000

I STILL don’t eat my veggies, and look how I turned out!

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 13:35:08 +0000

I found my way to your site through Raivyn. I agree with her, I love your writing style too. It's about time someone spoke up about parents giving in to their kids whims; after all, who's in charge, the parents or the kids. This is the time they learn things that will form them for the future. We always had to at least try what was served for dinner, and we ended up liking just about everything in the end. Keep up the good work Chris Chris's last blog post..Why does my dog eat his own poop?

By: Mel

Mel — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 04:41:27 +0000

I think it is important to put vegetables in front of your child if they eat it or not. Hiding them away or not giving them to your kids does not encourage healthy eating. If they know nothing but healthy food .. they will eat it… don’t offer unhealthy options. Simple as that really. From what i’ve learnt from lara.. one night it might be peas that she doesn’t like the next night carrots!!!

By: Raivyn

Raivyn — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:08:44 +0000

Again, I've got to agree with you. I believe that tricking your children like this, however dumb the situation may be, encourages them to resent their parents a little. If they can't trust you, they're going to be secretive and hide important things from you. Encouraging healthy eating is not as hard as people think it is- set examples, teach the importance of good health, and DON'T TRICK YOUR KIDS INTO EATING SOMETHING THEY DON'T WANT TO. My mother did it right, and I can honestly say that I prefer fresh fruits over chocolate any day. And broccoli? Love it. Raivyn's last blog post..Blog Action Day - Get Involved!

By: Tara

Tara — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:32:51 +0000

“Naturally, Oprah loves this shit and presented it as Godâ€™s own nectar and the saviour of cooking-frustrated parents everywhere. ”

lol, O thinks that about everything that she talks about.

However, I do think it’s a good idea. I never at veggies and still hardly do, due to a traumatic event in childhood, seriously. I went to a bad day care that wouldn’t let you leave the table until you ate all
your veggies, which isn’t a big deal, except that they were the icky canned kind. So, canned spinich and carrots and I would gag and swore off veggies and was pretty adamant about it.

By: nicheplayer

nicheplayer — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:16:37 +0000

V8 also has a lot of sodium, unless you go the low sodium route. My three-year-old damn well eats her broccoli. Fortunately, she’s a big fan of edamame, too, which actually has protein AND fat for those days when she won’t eat her meat. I haven’t tried blending anything up for her yet.

By: AntiBarbie

AntiBarbie — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:13:10 +0000

I can't get my eldest (2 year old) to eat veggies. I have tried every means possible but it's like trying to give a cat a pill. If I hide them in her food she just eats around them or picks them out. V8 is the only thing I can get in her, I just wish it wasn't so bloody expensive. AntiBarbie's last blog post..Short Story - Silent Treatment

By: frazzled mom

frazzled mom — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:41:49 +0000

I loved this post. Great writing and so true! frazzled mom's last blog post..Test Your Skills

By: Bec

Bec — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:50:09 +0000

Well as having older and younger children, I have learnt that hard lesson, under 4 you will undoubtly hide veggies at some point and with certain meals or you will never get those presious vitamins in the kids.

Kids can very but from 2-4 they just don’t get ice-cream is not a good preferance for a main meal. And don’t believe what you hear, the saying ‘if they are hungry they will eat it’ is bullshit. I found once school age hits they are more open to the varying food types and more varities and different cooking methods can be used with more enthusiasm.

Though Paula does like her little tress with a meal, and carrots, I am lucky there, but V8 juice is great for picky kids, has heaps of vitamins and taste good to.

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Nutrition » Eat Your Veggies, Dammit — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:46:58 +0000

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