I was reading through a magazine the other day and came across an article on how to get your kids to eat vegetables. It didn’t go into tricks on how to get them to eat veggies, instead it had these recipes to try on your kids to get them to eat veggies.

I’m all for new recipes, but there’s this new trend on the “trendy” food. It made me laugh, as the following recipes were included:

Minty Peas (basically frozen peas with mint mixed in)
Red Pepper soup (pureed red peppers with garlic)
Cauliflower Popcorn (sprinkled with Parmesan cheese)
Curried Acorn Squash

While these sound like things that I could serve at a dinner party, I’m not really sold on the idea of serving it to my 20 month old. My daughter might try them, if we bribed her enough, but not my son.

So instead of making some crazy stuff I probably wouldn’t eat, how do you get them to eat veggies?

- Serve them up first. The beginning of the meal is when they are the hungriest and are more likely to eat veggies.
- Offer up dip. Kids think it’s fun and it’s usually a dip they love.
- Let your child pick the veggies in the store. If they are a part of it, they may be more likely to eat them come dinner time.

I feed my kids tons of veggies that they don’t know about, basically including them in sauces and most recipes I prepare. It’s a boost of veggies for the adults and the kids, both of which need the additional veggies.

So do you feed your kid gourmet type veggies? What do you do to get your kids to eat them?