lundi 22 juillet 2013

Tips How To Get Children To Accept Greens

By George Dodson


You can probably still remember as a child the parental adage that would go something like this 'You better eat your vegetables or you won't grow up strong'.

Let's face it, some vegetables just don't taste good. In this regard, it will depend of course upon the persons' taste buds.

We already know that eating vegetables bring about many benefits. These foods are equipped with all the essential nutrients and vitamins that the body require. They also vary in texture and color.

Today, there are about enumerable ways on how we can obtain these essential nutrients and vitamins however, taking it from all-natural sources is still best and most efficient way of ingesting these requirements in our body. Thus, we really need to teach our children to eat veggies. The main question however is how you can go about making your children eat vegetables.

A good approach is to prepare vegetables that are easy to eat and with sweet taste then eventually try to add bit and pieces of other vegetables on the meal. This might include putting such things as brown sugar on squash. To make it more palatable to children you can saute the vegetable on butter or garlic. A few of the best tasting vegetables are cauliflower as well as broccoli when sauted or cooked with sauce. Saute as well as meals with sauce are the best way to conceal the bitter as well as other unpalatable tastes in vegetables..

Of course, a lot of us will also agree that other fruits taste better as they are or uncooked. Its almost amazing that these veggies taste great without the help of anything. The tomato is one of the many vegetables that tastes really good without being cooked which you can simply eat right from the garden. In addition, you can also nibble on carrots right after picking from the garden since they are sweet and actually taste really great. However, this is not the case with regards to root crop veggies such as turnips and rutabagas.

Like potatoes and squash, these can be prepared with butter or other seasoning and taste is not bad.

Having to boil a vegetable lessens its nutrient as well as vitamin content and not to mention it degrades the taste. If you choose to saute your vegetable, you'll have a better taste and the essential vitamins and minerals will retain. If you prepare them out then Al Dente, they are firm to the bite and taste more like their natural state.

Let's face it, vegetables are nature's way of providing you with the essential vitamins and minerals plus the fiber that you need for a healthy diet. Having to feed your kids with vegetables are actually not that difficult at all if you know how to improvise the taste and cook it that way your kids would love. This way, you know your children are getting their essential vitamins and minerals in a form that nature provides for maximum digestion.




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