I just read this article in Slate about children's nutrition and suddenly I am feeling better about myself. Maybe my children don't eat a lot of things, but at least they honestly appreciate the taste and texture of the foods they do eat.
I hadn't really considered the inherent sneakiness of putting pureed veggies into their brownies, but now that I think about it, it does seem kind of awful. Nor had I paused to consider how many nutrients would be left in veggies that had been cooked, pureed and baked into small portions. Probably not very many.
So, I'm not going to turn to a life of pureeing (I swear to Goddess that word is spelled correctly, no matter how bad it looks) and cooking foods that I can sneak the purees into. Which is a relief, since I really didn't want to learn how to cook complicated stuff anyway.
I'm just going to keep putting healthy foods in front of them, knowing that someday I will break their little veggie-hating wills.
4 comments:
Petula - I hadn't thought about it either, but the writer of the article interviewed a nutritionist who laughed about about the nutritional value of the foods.
Hi there :) Not sure if this will be of any help, but anyway... My 2.5yro goes thru veggie hating stages sometimes, we are in one at the moment... the solution? Clap every time he eats a veggie and then he'll just keep eating them for the clapping, lol. Wish everything was that easy!!
Petula - I hadn't thought about it either, but the writer of the article interviewed a nutritionist who laughed about about the nutritional value of the foods.
Hi there :) Not sure if this will be of any help, but anyway... My 2.5yro goes thru veggie hating stages sometimes, we are in one at the moment... the solution? Clap every time he eats a veggie and then he'll just keep eating them for the clapping, lol. Wish everything was that easy!!
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