Hello Katie kids and veggies

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You're hired! I agree, there is always a veggie a

child will eat and as you use plenty of patience and

work along with them, they will add more to their

diet. My niece started off only eating sweet potaoes,

then I would give her spoonfuls of canned pumpkin, and

from there she would beets, and then she acquited a

taste for beets since those all have a slightly sweet

taste. What worked with the kids was to find a

vegetable they would eat and pick one that has a

similar taste. One nephew would only eat peas, so I

would work diced green beans into his casseroles and

things of that nature.

DOnna

--- Katie M <cozycate wrote:

 

> Welcome Darcy! You don't say how old your daughter

> is. This is not going to be popular, but it is the

> truth.

> Hating vegetables is a learned behavior. Yes, it

> is a behavior, not a taste. Most boys grow up

> seeing their fathers eat meat and potatoes and just

> skip the salad and vegetables, They grow up

> thinking that is how to be a man and that eating

> veggies is a girl thing. In turn they grow up and,

> by example, teach their sons the same thing.

> As a behavioral intersession specialist, I know

> that the best thing you can do for a child up to age

> 10 is to give them a small helping of the vegetables

> you expect them to eat and not give them anything

> else until they do. The key here, is that you

> expect the child to eat it. You don't sit there

> hopefully urging her on or making a big deal out of

> it. You expect it as surely as you expect the sun

> to come up tomorrow morning. When the child learns

> to eat her veggies before she gets anything else,

> give her something else with them. As long as ske

> keeps eating them progress to the full meal at the

> same time. t

> Regardless of the faces she makes or the gagging

> sounds or the groans you sit there, enjoying your

> own meal, ignoring her until her veggies are eaten,

> Then without comment pass her the other foods.

> The ignoring stops if the food goes on the floor.

> That you have to deal with seperately as defiance,

> not an eating prefferance.

> Eating prefferances are OK. Not everyones

> favorite food is zucchini. some prefer broccoli.

> There is nothign wrong with that, but not liking

> vegetables, just beause they are vegetables is a

> learned behavior that needs to be unlearner. The

> same goes for people who just cant stand beans.

> With 50 or so different types of beans, each with a

> unique taste, do you really think a person can just

> hate the taste of all of then. Of course not.

> hating beans is a learned behavior. My X used to

> hate hamburger meat. Regardless of what it was in

> or how it was cooked, he hated it. He loved steak.

> The truth was that he thought he was worth steak and

> trying to serve him hamburger was an insult to his

> worth.

> Now I personally don't liked chocolate. I know

> most people see this as a personalit flaw, but I

> just don't care for the taste. I eat it if doing

> otherwise would offend someone, but it gives me no

> pleasure to eat it. This doesn't mean that I hate

> every desert or candy. I really dislike the laste

> of some medicine I take, but to be healthy I must

> take it and I do. Crying about it and gagging and

> making faces don't help as no one is here to see it

> or to know if I take it or not. It is a part of

> being responsible. Children learn that as they

> learn self discipline as they grow up. Eating

> vegetables is the same thing. She may never acquire

> the taste for cikrabbi, that is fine, let her eat

> brocolli.

> Katie,

> Darcy <gillibean02 wrote:

> Hello, I am a new member here. I have been

> vegan for about 3 weeks and

> vegetarian for 9 weeks. I have a wonderful husband

> who has been slowly

> turning vegetarian too. I also have two beautiful

> young daughters who

> currently hate most vegetables, so I am in need of

> some good vegetarian

> (preferably vegan) recipes for my whole family to

> love and enjoy.

>

> I live in Alabama and in my perspective, most of the

> people around here

> do not accept vetarians much less vegans, so I would

> love to talk to

> people like me.

>

> Talk to you soon,

> Darcy

 

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