We need help with Vegetable intake for Zak Jr

[Zak33]

Lo people,

He;s getting parky ... cos he's at nursery a few days a week now he's picking up on other people's dislikes, and green vegetables are now a right old challenge

He's good with fruit, so pears, apples, satsumas grapes etc are not an issue..

but where he used to munch through brocolli and peas like lightning, he's just... stopped eating them. He tries it every time, so fair play, but then he spits it out with a "not yike that" and that's it for that meal.

He WILL eat runner beans... and this is the cracking thing abouty kids... if they're involved from the outset, he'll eat it.. so in summer when my mum (his nana), known here on HEXUS as Ponolops, took him out to her garden to pick young fresh runner beans.. he ate them there and then, and now eats "nana beans" at every opportunity.. but I'm not currently growing heads of brocolli or pea's so can't take him out to the garden to pick them and reinvigorate his love.

So.. I need help please. Tricks and tips that don't involve sugaring them or any other unhealthy tricks.

Ideas ?

[menthel]

Grab a head of broccoli, stick it in the ground and then take him out to 'pick' it? Kids do tend to go off veg at this age as they tend to taste very bitter- the little tykes taste buds are very sensitive at this age!

[Tumble]

Things like broccoli & leeks go really well if you cook em in a cheesy sauce (nice for the adults too )

[Moby-Dick]

disguising them can work ? I reckon you can hide a lot of veg in a spag bog/ cottage pie if you chop it small enough

[Moby-Dick]

Things like broccoli & leeks go really well if you cook em in a cheesy sauce (nice for the adults too )

cheesy peas !!

[GoNz0]

when your about to dish up his carrots add a teaspoon of sugar to glaze them and he will love them (chance is you all will)

cheese and broccoli soup = swamp soup (he may go for that)

[Pob255]

Sounds like he's fallen to peer pressure.

I remember going off mushrooms when I was young after learning that they are fungi and fungi only grows on rotting things.
I would pick them out of any thing even when chopped up very small.

Given how he now likes beens I'd start growing peas or buy peas still in the pods and get him to shell them, getting him involved in the preperation may help sway him.

On frozen or simular peas try petti poui as they are sweeter than normal garden peas and have a different consinstancy. (I always loved them for the way they'd pop as you chewed them.)

[Perfectionist]

Fold fresh mash potato with baked beans over the top of them and mix it in (not so much that it gets runny or anything, just pressed in a few times so that they can't be separated) - won't be able to taste em even

[IBM]

Our lad went through a brief period of not liking greens - I blame the wife for trying to get him to eat chard, evil stuff - but then got it into his head that he liked being a giant, and that broccoli looked like trees. Hey presto, tree eating giant - I didn't have to do a thing.

Funnily enough, he's now into parental approval so much that veg is the first thing he'll eat, just so we'll sing his praises...