What to do if your child is picky about food?

Parents must first be patient enough when it comes to children's picky eating, because a large part of the reason for children's picky eating is closely related to their parents. We can let children help pick and wash vegetables when cooking, or let children help add seasoning when cooking. This can increase children's attention to the food. When eating, tell everyone that this is the baby's masterpiece, so that children will not be able to resist eating a few more bites of the food they made.

Changing the appearance of food

Because of previous experience, many children are unwilling to try a certain food again once they think it tastes bad. At this time, parents might as well make the food invisible and let the children eat it without knowing it. It's like chopping, pureeing, juicing or cutting the food that children hate to eat into pieces, changing its shape, and then adding it to other foods to cook. For example: For children who don’t like to eat vegetables, mothers can try to chop cabbage and leeks, mix them with minced meat, and make dumplings, wontons or meatballs with their children; add a little carrot and onion to hamburgers; crush corn kernels and vegetables to make corn soup; add a little honey to alfalfa sprouts, apples, and carrots to make delicious vegetable and fruit juice!

Change, change, change

Using different cooking methods and various combinations of the same ingredients, and adjusting the color and taste of the dishes make them feel fresh, interesting and more attractive to children. For example: turn Popeye's favorite vegetables into delicious spinach scrambled eggs; change the unpleasant green peppers into sweet and sour sweet and sour pork; slice and shred the cucumbers, carrots, and celery, add chopped egg whites, and mix with mayonnaise, and it becomes a refreshing salad! Isn't it special to heat cheese and eat it with bread or fruit?

Cute trick

Add some decorations to the dishes to attract children's interest. For example: add vegetables and tomato sauce to the fried rice to change the color, use models or vegetables to decorate the rice into Kitty Cat or Pikachu, arrange the dishes into the shape of flowers, or cut the vegetables into cute shapes that can be grabbed by hand, etc. As long as you spend a little more time and effort, you can give children a new and interesting experience.

Parents should pay enough attention to children's picky eating and not let it develop. Long-term picky eating will have a great impact on children's height, intelligence, and personality. The eating habits of many children in their childhood affect their eating habits throughout their lives. Telling your children some short stories about food while they are eating can help them increase their attraction to food, which is also a very effective method.