On how much does children hate eating vegetables? Look at their expressions of eating vegetables, and you will understand:
My Baoer is a pure "vegetable insulator". Every time I try hard to make it for a long time and let her taste it, she screams loudly as if she has seen a ghost: "I don't eat it, I-no-eat! You can't force me!" Eating vegetables is like fighting a war, hard to describe.
To be honest, I am also very angry, helpless and anxious over time. I'm crazy about eating more vegetables every day. often can’t help but wonder: is the food I cook too unpalatable, or is the child himself being too picky to eat?
It was not until I read the failure experience of these 3 mothers that I realized...
01 The failure experience of 3 mothers told me: If you want your child to eat more vegetables, these 3 methods will not work
01 Nagging method: every day emphasizes that children eat more vegetables
If you want to be healthy, you have to eat more vegetables to grow taller! How did you pick out
again? If you don’t eat vegetables, be careful not to get a poop!
Children should not be picky about food. Only by eating good vegetables can they grow tall and strong!
"Do these words sound familiar? To be honest, this is what I would say every day at that time." Dudu's mother said.
@Duduma
At that time, in order to let the child eat vegetables, I even wrote a story about my colleague's child getting sick for him. He scared him and said:
My colleague's child is picky in food and does not eat vegetables and fruits. I have severe deficiency of various vitamins, and my hands and feet are peeling very severely. I have to see a doctor. The medicine prescribed by the doctor is all vitamins. Can this medicine be better than vegetables?
But I found that my son always said to me that his left ear was always in his left ear and his right ear, leaving no trace in his heart.
Later, in order to cater to his son's taste, I started ordering takeout for him. As a result, after two months of eating, I stopped eating.
helplessly, his father started to take care of himself. Because his son was too picky to eat, his husband had two dishes and one soup at the beginning, and last week, he basically cooked dishes for one day and ate them for two days. As a result, my son doesn't like to eat it even more.
From three meals a day to one meal, we were also angry when we saw our son doing this.
nagging day and night, so that my son can not drink a single bite of food all day. When I saw the dish, I was angry and refused to eat anything.
In fact, many times, when adults are anxious, they will choose to emphasize repeatedly in a funny tone: "Why don't you eat any vegetables? Just eat meat? You have to eat more vegetables to grow taller~"
Little do they know that it is this unconscious language suggestion that strengthens the child's mentality of not loving to eat vegetables.
Let the child label themselves "not like to eat vegetables", which not only creates resistance to adults, but also intensifies the child's habit of not eating vegetables.
02 Resolutely the second best method: Use fruits to replace vegetables
In recent years, the saying that uses fruits to replace vegetables has become popular among mothers. However, when it was really implemented, the reality was cruel:
@Jiajiama
My daughter is over 4 years old and looks white and fat and very pleasing. But she has always disliked eating vegetables, and this situation has occurred since she first came into contact with complementary foods.
At that time, I racked my brains to use all kinds of methods to get my daughter to eat more vegetables. But she can always pick out all the hidden diced vegetables with sharp eyes, and I am really very broken.
Until I found out that although my daughter is not interested in vegetables, she especially likes to eat fruits. So I boldly tried a day when "fruits instead of vegetables"! It was indeed hello at the beginning, and I was very happy for everyone, but the more I went back, the more I found that
vegetables that were obviously still in the past,
Now I don’t touch them at all!
Vegetables and fruits are actually "complementary" relationships and cannot replace each other.
Although besides vegetables, fruits are the second largest food source of vitamins. However, fruits tend to contain higher sugar than vegetables! You should not eat too much . Eating too much will make your child like sweetness and become less fond of vegetables.
So: only when you don’t eat enough vegetables, you can eat more low sugar fruit (for example, peaches, apricots, and watermelons have low sugar content, compared to jujubes and grapes have higher sugar content) , but fruits cannot directly replace vegetables.
03Simple and crude method: if you don’t eat, force to eat
"Our previous method was: if you don’t eat good food, you can’t eat other snacks and desserts!" said Tianyi’s mother. But later it didn't work, so my grandmother started to simply and roughly "put it directly" .
@Tianyi Mom
For example: don't let the child go to the dining table, keep feeding vegetables, pressing the child's mouth with chopsticks, and running around the room...
Once, the child's grandmother wanted the child to eat fried lotus root , so she kept picking it up for the child, but the child didn't eat it even if he died. Grandma pushed the fried lotus root into the child afterwards. The child cried and shouted: "I don't eat this, I won't eat this!"
Later, my husband said: Forget it! Let him eat whatever he wants...
Grandma was unhappy, picked up some food, and took the bowl to the balcony for dinner. Results: After grandma left, the child happily started to eat fried coupling.
When the child continues to eat food under our coercion, he will sometimes eat well and sometimes be very reluctant. This will make the child feel that eating is a very painful thing, and at the same time, the disadvantages of forcing the slogan to persuade the dishes will be revealed:
Use tough behavior to persuade the dishes, which will make the child maintain a long-term resistance to the dishes that he was willing to try. Only when the forced person leaves will the child relax and try a bite of the dish.
Although I also know, parents can realize that this kind of advice is not good for children. However, because I was too anxious, I was worried that my child would be hungry, that his nutrition would not keep up, that my child would be picky about food in the future, that my child would not be able to eat well in the future, that was worried about this and that, which made eating a pressure!
So what should I do?
02 The solution to children not eating vegetables is divided into 2 steps
01 Solve the food itself problem:
. Provide as many kinds of vegetables as possible:
Most children will show obvious picky food at the age of 2 to 4, and they will gradually improve by around 6 years old, which is normal. As long as the baby is not involved in diseases or serious malnutrition, we don’t have to be too anxious. Because, there is no food in the world that is irreplaceable!
Don't eat this? OK, let's continue trying something else next time!
gives 1 time and don’t eat it, give it 10 times.
0 times and don’t eat it, and give it 20 times.
The only thing to note is that don’t force it to eat!
For example: When it comes to eye protection, do you only think of carrots? But in fact, there is:
When it comes to calcium supplementation, you only think of milk (107 mg/100 mg) , but in fact there is:
Because it contains oxalic acid, in order to improve calcium supplementation efficiency, remember to blanch
, mix vegetables and meat or change cooking methods:
dumplings, wontons, vegetable pancakes, juice into dough, fried vegetable meatballs! Chinese food is profound and profound, only unexpected and unsuccessful!
Although I know many parents have tried it, they always say: wrap the vegetables in the dumplings, and the children only eat the skin; make meatballs, and the children pick out the vegetables and even spit them out...
Then use fried meatballs to make fried dumplings! After all, in addition to changing the way food is mixed, you can also change the cooking method, such as frying, frying, roasting, etc. to change the taste.
02 Solve external food problems:
. Ensure hunger before meals:
The so-called "hungry" means that whatever you eat is delicious when you are hungry. Of course, this does not mean that everyone is deliberately hungry for their children, but pays attention to control. Especially:
- control snacks
This requires the cooperation of the whole family. Snacks are not everywhere and can be eaten at home. In addition, at least one hour before meals are guaranteed not to eat snacks, fruits, etc.
- Increase the amount of exercise
If a child exercises too much, it will consume the energy of the body, and then the body will send out a signal that needs to be replenished energy "hungry", so it can increase the child's acceptance of food.
. Parents set an example and don’t be picky about food!
After all, before letting your children accept it, parents should also love to show their love for a certain food.
Children's dependence on parents makes them habitually imitate and follow their parents' choices. Parents should treat food rationally, not to say that certain foods are high-end and delicious, while certain foods are low-end and unpalatable.
Parents can take their children to choose vegetables, pick vegetables, wash vegetables, etc. Through some daily interactions, let the vegetables "make a familiar face" and let the children slowly accept this ingredients.
. Make food into various shapes:
For children, foods with cute and bright colors have natural appeal to them. This mom made it so awesome!
She said: "My child used to be very picky in food and was relatively thin, so she worked very hard on her diet. She spent a lot of time studying various complementary foods and styles every day."
From then on, the child started to look forward to eating every day. also brought the meals made by his mother to the kindergarten. The students were envious~
To be honest, if the rice could be made like this, the children at home would rush to eat them!
Finally, I want to say that parents who don’t like to eat vegetables only need to “try more vegetables patiently” + “practice more hands and improve their cooking skills”!
