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Eat Your Vegetables’ and Other Mistakes Parents Make: Redefining How to Raise Healthy Eaters, by Dr. Natalie Digate Muth, helps parents assure healthful nutrition for kids of all ages. Natalie Digate Muth MD, MPH, RD is a community pediatrician and registered dietitian widely recognized for her expertise in childhood obesity, nutrition, and fitness.
In Dr. Muth’s book, parents will not only learn what exactly constitutes a healthy eating plan at various ages and stages, but they’ll also discover tips and tricks to get kids to actually want to eat healthy. Each chapter is followed by simple, kid-friendly recipes which help parents turn the information contained within the chapters into action — starting with the next meal or snack.
A few of the key topics covered in Eat Your Vegetables include:
• How to avoid mealtime/battle time.
• Taste-learning techniques; Getting kids to like to like unfamiliar foods.
• Diet-free ways to help an overweight child.
• How to make mealtimes you look forward to, rather than dread.
• How to undo grandparent sabotage when raising healthy eaters.
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Resources for other great tips for raising healthy eaters:
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Twitter – @DrNatalieMuth
Website – http://www.drnataliemuth.com/
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Lily Kwan says
hide vegetables in other foods
KATHY DALTON says
i never really had a problem with veggies with the kids i was lucky
Charlotte says
I try to add them into other foods.
Rikki says
I add chopped spinach to most of my pasta meals and I use pasta made from veggies like zucchini and carrots.
jane says
My trick is to teach them to eat the vegetables first and then introduce fruits second.
–mom of 4
Brittany C. says
Our son is only 13 weeks so we haven’t had to deal w/ that yet but having this book would help when the time comes! Thanks for the giveaway!
jean carlisle says
I hide veggies by blending them up and then adding them to soups, sauces, etc. No one knows they’re in there except me! I also add spinach, lettuce, kale etc to smoothies.
kristin says
my trick is, she needs to eat her veggies or no dessert
jeanny pashia ville says
food coloring
Katy says
I currently don’t really have any tricks and I sure could use some!
Jennifer Jackson says
Hide them in everything
Rachel says
I don’t have to “trick” them into the basics…they’ll eat carrots, corn, broccoli, spinach. But I do add veggie purees to things like pancake/waffle batter, and I’ll bake them carrot zucchini bread, etc. to increase their intake. Not so much a “trick”, in my opinion, just healthy ingredient choices!
Pam says
We have been pretty lucky getting the kids to eat their veggies and we explain that in order to have dessert they have to eat good as well.
Shauna Lynn says
I mix them with pasta sauce. However my nieces and nephews are all very good about eating their veggies
sandra b says
Organic ranch works wonders with carrots and broccoli
Starlight (Marie) says
Pureeing them and mixing them in with things they like!
Adrianne B says
I guess I am lucky…my daughter really likes vegetables. She is more prone to try something new if it is mixed up with other things: stir-fry, soup, etc.
nikki krutz says
My kids are pretty good with the basic veggies (corn, peas, carrots, green beans) but broccoli and others can be a little harder. They do like to dip in ranch! Today we got a muffin made with carrots in it and my 10 year old loved it, think i will look up recipes like that for future sneakiness!
sandra b says
I agree with Marianne …I do the same thing. If he wants to have ranch with his broccoli fine, I will give him organic ranch dressing to dip them in, same with carrots. Sometimes when I want him to try new fruits or veggies I cut them and stick really cool food picks in them and send them in his lunchbox. 9 times out of 10 the kids at his table go crazy over his food pick and he totally gets lost on the hype and tries the new morsels.
vickie marks allbright says
i dont trick them i make them take one bite of a veggie and most times they end up liking them
michelle warner says
sometime i cut them up and make shapes and cool faces and things, it helps
Andrea M says
I mix them in with a sweet puree and give them to my kiddos in a reusable snack pouch.
Marianne S. says
Fortunately for us, we don’t have to trick our kids into eating veggies… we just don’t give them dessert until they eat. That said, we’ve found veggies that they WILL eat, and feed those to them, vs forcing them to eat ones they won’t… for example, my younger son likes corn, but not cream corn. He’ll eat broccoli, but only with cheese on it… sometimes trade-offs are necessary for the greater good!