What to do if your child doesn’t like to eat vegetables

Children's refusal to eat vegetables is a problem that worries many parents, because we all know that vegetables contain various nutrients and trace elements needed by babies. If babies don't like to eat vegetables, they will not be able to absorb these nutrients, which will directly affect their healthy development. So below we will give parents some tips on how to deal with babies who don't like to eat vegetables, hoping to bring more help to parents.

Increase the chances of your baby meeting vegetables

Most Chinese people focus on cooking meat and rarely put effort into cooking vegetables. The monotonous appearance and taste may have dampened the baby's enthusiasm for eating vegetables. Try adding sweet corn, sweet peas, small carrots, and small mushrooms to white rice, and then add a few drops of sesame oil. The beautiful "colorful rice" will surely increase your baby's interest. For example, instead of cooking pure meat dishes at home, you can add some celery, green peppers, etc. when stir-frying the meat, and add potatoes, carrots, mushrooms, kelp, etc. when stewing the meat, which will also increase the baby's chances of eating vegetables. In addition, when eating noodles, don’t just put fried sauce on them. You can also add cucumbers, bean sprouts, blanched cabbage shreds, blanched spinach leaves, etc.

Hide your vegetables

Many babies like to eat stuffed foods. For example, babies who don’t like carrots don’t refuse dumplings with carrot stuffing. Therefore, parents can often add a small amount of vegetables that their babies don’t usually like to eat into meatballs, dumplings, buns, and pie fillings. Over time, the baby will get used to and accept them.

Make vegetables beautiful and cute

Young children have relatively high requirements for the appearance of food. If food does not appeal to them, they will see eating as a burden. Therefore, when preparing food for young children, you should try to make the colors colorful and the shapes beautiful and cute. In this way, young children will feel that eating is fun in itself and will naturally concentrate. Does your baby dislike eating carrots? Cut them into thin slices and shape them into flowers. Steam them together with sweet corn kernels on the surface of rice. Your baby may be willing to eat the "flowers".

If your baby also faces these problems, you can adopt the methods introduced above. To a certain extent, you can cultivate your baby's love for vegetables. Of course, you can also better ensure the nutrition your baby needs, so that they can grow more healthily and strongly and avoid malnutrition problems.