- Use creative, interactive role play to encourage children to be interested in and passionate about fresh food and cooking.
Provide toy kitchens such as the Little Tikes Inside/Outside Cook ‘n’ Grill plus fun accessories and suggest tea parties/ dinner parties with dolls and friends.
- As soon as your children are old enough, let them help you prepare fresh food in the kitchen. Make fun and easy recipes together, for example, delicious puddings that involve plenty of stirring, tasting, mixing, measuring and mess! Try to close your eyes to the mess – remember that the kids are learning which is more important than having to clear up a few spills!
- When you really don’t have the time to let your kids get involved in the ‘real’ meal, if you have a toy kitchen, ask the children to help you by ‘washing’ your (already washed) carrots etc in their own sink.
- At meal times, put mixed vegetables in a bowl, rather than straight onto the kid’s plates and let them help themselves – they are far more likely to eat them this way.
- From an early age, let children pour their own milk on their cereal and let them butter their own toast. All these things encourage independence and they just seem to enjoy the experience of the meal so much more.
- Introduce your children to healthy snacks such as dried apricots, raisins, sticks of carrot, cucumber and pepper – good alternatives to sweets and chocolate. Show them how to have fun making and eating simple healthy snacks, such as
dips for fresh vegetables, toast cut into fun shapes with tuna and soft cheese or egg and cress toppings.
- Give kids their own patch of garden in which to grow their own fruit and vegetables. They are sure to be thrilled when they pull up their fi rst home-grown carrot or pick their very own runner beans or strawberries and then see them used in the family meal! If you are short of garden space, use a window sill or patio to grow herbs, cress, tomatoes etc.
- Finally, always make food fun, eat together as family whenever possible and NEVER turn mealtimes into a battle. Don’t ‘ban’ particular foods, just encourage your children to enjoy all types of food in moderation.
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