How To Convince Kids To Eat Salad

By George Dodson


Back in our childhood days, many if not all were always reminded by parents to eat veggies to stay strong and healthy.

Needles to say, although veggies are a great benefit to ones health, it actually doesn't always taste as good as those of fruits. Regarding the taste, this will be up to the person eating the vegetable.

We already know that eating vegetables bring about many benefits. These foods are equipped with all the essential nutrients and vitamins that the body require. You can see a variety of colors, textures and shapes present in vegetables.

Today, there are about enumerable ways on how we can obtain these essential nutrients and vitamins however, taking it from all-natural sources is still best and most efficient way of ingesting these requirements in our body. With this in mind, it is important to train your kids to eat vegetables. The main question however is how you can go about making your children eat vegetables.

A good approach is to prepare vegetables that are easy to eat and with sweet taste then eventually try to add bit and pieces of other vegetables on the meal. This might include putting such things as brown sugar on squash. You might saute carrots in butter and other flavors such as garlic and, which modifies the taste and makes them more palatable. Such vegetables as cauliflower and broccoli taste much better when seasoned and covered with various sauces. If you're looking to hide the not-so-good taste of the vegetable, you can simply opt for these styles of cooking..

Of course, a lot of us will also agree that other fruits taste better as they are or uncooked. Its almost amazing that these veggies taste great without the help of anything. Many a kid is gone out in the garden with a salt shaker and eat the tomatoes right off the vine. In addition, you can also nibble on carrots right after picking from the garden since they are sweet and actually taste really great. However, this is not the case with regards to root crop veggies such as turnips and rutabagas.

On the other hand, these too can be sauted and made more tasty just like potatoes and squash.

If you're going to cook vegetables, it's better to saute them rather than boil them. All the while if you saute your vegetable you'll be preserving its natural taste as well as all the essential benefits you can get from the vegetable. You can also have a better taste if you prepare your vegetables Al Dente style or half cooked.

No matter how you put it, vegetables are still the best source of essential proteins, vitamins and minerals that the body. Having to feed your kids with vegetables are actually not that difficult at all if you know how to improvise the taste and cook it that way your kids would love. Through this, you'll be able to guarantee your child's' healthy well being.




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