There are some things which i had never eaten as a kid like turnips, brussel sprouts and the like.

Some things like cauliflower i eat now when i got them in a restaurant dish because it tasted so much more appealing then what my mother made.

My daughter ate salad when she started eating solid foods, she would grabb them from my plate and shove them into her mouth. Sometimes she liked tomatoes, sometimes not.

I let her eat from my plate and i never really had a problem with her eating habits.

If you make a fuss when kids do not want to eat something it just hardens their decision to not eat that specific food.

Adding some carrots in a potatoe soup or other vegetables is not wrong as long as it is not a vegetable the kid absolutely hates.

But adding broccolie to a brownie…no…carrot cake or a sweet carrot pudding like it is served in india..yes…somehow carrots are different.

Never trick a kid with something it absolutely hates and if you do and the kid does not recognize the hated vegetables, for gods sake..do not tell.

I’m going to end up sounding older than I am, but I swear I’m under 35.

There were some vegetables that I genuinely don’t like–no amount of threatening can get me to eat lima beans, and Mom and I battled for years over whether or not to put raw bell pepper in salads–but, mostly, I was pretty good (Mom confirms this). The rules at our house were that you had to finish your milk, and you had to eat some vegetables. My parents weren’t exactly health-food nuts but every dinner involved a protein, a starch, and a vegetable. They didn’t put sauces on things, and they never fried anything.

We didn’t have much money and my mother wouldn’t buy processed food, so there were no hot dogs, chicken nuggets, macaroni and cheese, soda, juice, sweet cereal, etc., as potential alternatives if we held out long enough against tuna casserole or baked chicken. You ate what you were served or you didn’t eat. I don’t recall it ever crossing my mind to demand a special meal.

I’m not sure how much of it was that I was a kid who would eat almost anything, and how much of it was that there was apparently no concept of “kid food” at our house and we never developed a taste for the things to which parents often resort when their kids won’t eat vegetables.

It may not be my job to make them eat healthy foods, but I’m darn sure gonna do what I can to get some into them, in any way I can!

If I can lose weight then anyone else can too. Whatever you do, don’t give up and you WILL
reach all your weight loss goals!
much thanks for reading,
Joan
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