Vegetables
My youngest has just turned 2 and will NOT eat vegetables. Its always been a thing, I swear if left to it he would just be a carnivore. Ive been sticking to the whole "dont pressure, just make it available, eventually after picking it up and playing with it they'll eat it" for... what feels like forever. He just won't. He picks it up, happily plays with it, squashes it but wont put it in his mouth. Try and sneak it onto a spoon with his other food and he simply moves it around in his mouth and spits out the veggie. The one thing i could get him to have, baked beans, has now wholly been rejected too. I never had this issue with my eldest, he isnt exactly easy with food either but veggies are mostly okay. Ive resorted to giving them vitamins after meal time because im so worried about what my youngest is actually getting in his diet and what affect that may be having.
Please help š im pulling my hair out with this
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Not much help because my son has been a turd with veg since he started solids tbh but I do make a lot of ācakesā as he knows the word and I hide veg in there š Iāve got carrot cupcakes and courgette chocolate cakes that only have cocoa powder in them not proper chocolate so theyāre kinda no sugar cupcakes that I add some honey or maple syrup to.
Could you make your own tomato sauce and put tonnes of veg in? I do that and my LO loves it
My daughter is exactly the same! My 3.5 year old will literally eat anything but my nearly 2 year old will not touch vegetables.
I put some on her plate at pretty much every meal and never put pressure on. Every now and again she might eat a tiny bit of carrot but the only way I can get veg in her is to hide it in a curry..she doesnt eat pasta so pasta sauces are out too.
She does eat fruit so thats something but I'm just going to keep trying and not worry too much about it as you can only expose them to good food and not force it xx
If my daughter doesn't like a specific veggie, I cook and blend a whole load of it and then sneak it into sauces. For example she won't eat courgettes but when I blended them with peas,.avocado and basil for a "pesto" sauce, then added it to pasta, she LOVED it. Even though 80% of it was courgette š¤£ same with butternut squash. I roast and blend that, and I can add the puree to macaroni cheese, lasagne (basically most pasta dishes tbh), curry, etc... obviously still offer the offending veggies, cooked different ways, but its a good way of sneaking them in in the meantime. Then over time you can blend it less and less so there are small chunks, then bigger chunks, etc etc...
Spag bol and Mac and cheese are my best ones for hiding veg. Spaghetti bol has tinned tomatoes obviously but I also hide grated courgette and carrot in the sauce and if you cook it long enough it basically dissolves. With Mac and Cheese I do a whole load of roasted veggies then blend them into basically a soup which I add a lot of cheese to make my cheese sauce. That and cakes Courgettes especially go in so many of the cakes I make same as carrot and beetroot
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Vegetables
My youngest has just turned 2 and will NOT eat vegetables. Its always been a thing, I swear if left to it he would just be a carnivore. Ive been sticking to the whole "dont pressure, just make it available, eventually after picking it up and playing with it they'll eat it" for... what feels like forever. He just won't. He picks it up, happily plays with it, squashes it but wont put it in his mouth. Try and sneak it onto a spoon with his other food and he simply moves it around in his mouth and spits out the veggie. The one thing i could get him to have, baked beans, has now wholly been rejected too. I never had this issue with my eldest, he isnt exactly easy with food either but veggies are mostly okay. Ive resorted to giving them vitamins after meal time because im so worried about what my youngest is actually getting in his diet and what affect that may be having.
Please help š im pulling my hair out with this
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