Sunday 30 June 2013

Convincing Your Young Children To Accept Greens

By George Dodson


You probably one of those kids who always reminded by parents to eat your vegetables to have a strong body.

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

It is a fact that vegetables are essential to the health. They contain vitamins, essential minerals, and fiber which is necessary for a healthy diet. You can see a variety of colors, textures and shapes present in vegetables.

Although there are many good supplements which provide these essential vitamins and minerals, we know that nature tends to provide what we need in just the right amounts and combinations that our body can easily digest. With this in mind, it is important to train your kids to eat vegetables. The main question however is how you can go about making your children eat vegetables.

For starters, you can start with the vegetables that doesn't taste too awful for children then try to make modifications for other vegetables. Sugar can be added to their meal to have a sweeter taste and add squash for the soft and smooth taste. 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. That mask the taste that you get when you either boil or heat interactive vegetables in some other way..

As most of us will attest to, most of vegetables taste all right in their natural state. There's probably a reason how these vegetables taste how they are. 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. Then again there are those veggies that doesn't have the same traits such as turnips and rutabagas.

In the same manner as potatoes and squash, these vegetables can be prepared by adding seasonings and sauteing for a better taste.

Boiling vegetables is probably the worst way of making it edible. All the while if you saute your vegetable you'll be preserving its natural taste as well as all the essential benefits you can get from the vegetable. You can also have a better taste if you prepare your vegetables Al Dente style or half cooked.

No matter how you put it, vegetables are still the best source of essential proteins, vitamins and minerals that the body. Getting your children to eat them is not difficult if you use your imagination, consider what they like, and prepare those that are not so tasteful in ways that seem to mask the taste. 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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