Find ways to Make your Child Love Vegetables

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Surprising Ways to make your Baby Love Vegetables

• We all know that growth in infants is essential
  and during the transition period that is while
  they are leaving breastfeeding they have to
  consume solid foods including vegetables. But,
  mothers have to face a tough time while including
  vegetables in their diet as babies love sweeter
  taste than a sour one. But, for proper nutrition
  as well as extraction of vitamins and minerals
  from the food, vegetables should be consumed by
  babies. Parents have to learn some tips to make
  children love vegetables.

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Tips  to make your Baby Love Vegetables

• Mixing Veggies with Sweet Fruit
• Serve boiled vegetables like sweet potato along
  with any juicy fruit like mango and mix well by
  smashing it well to make a smoothie so as not to
  distinguish vegetables from fruit. Babies will
  quickly learn to like the sweet juicy flavour of
  fruits along with vegetables. You can mix any
  suitable vegetable with fruit for nourishment.
  Hence, they get more energy to consume more
  veggies in future.
• Mixing boiled vegetables with Baby Food
• While feeding baby food, just add boiled and
  smashed vegetables like bean, carrot or green
  leafy vegetables with solid food which is already
  an acceptable flavour to the child. The infant
  may gradually start to eat it with
  vegetables.Smash boiled vegetables with sweet
  taste and flavour.When your baby learns to eat
  vegetable gradually, serve only boiled vegetables
  like sweet potato, bean, carrot or peas. You can
  smash them with sweet tasting or flavoured food
  which is acceptable to the child.

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• Mix Vegetables with Pulses or Rice
• When the infant learns to consume veggies, add
  pulses or rice along with the vegetables and stop
  adding sweet. Instead, add a little salt for
  taste to make it smooth. The vegetables will
  taste better when added with rice and pulses.
• Dont allow Junk Food
• Dont encourage chocolates or biscuits as once
  the child gets a taste of these they may not
  like to eat vegetables.
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• Make Vegetables a bit Coarser
• When a baby becomes 8-10 months old and has
  started eating vegetables, make a mix of
  vegetables may be with rice and pulses but a bit
  coarser, so that the child can get used to
  semi-solid food.Make softer vegetable as per the
  Babys choice.When your baby turns a year old,
  you should cook vegetables the way he or she
  loves to eat without making it too spicy. Pay
  attention while eating and do not play any audio
  or video to distract the childs attention from
  eating.

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• Dont allow Canned Vegetables
• Dont give stored or canned vegetables available
  in stores as they contain no nutritional value.
  Collect fresh vegetables from the market and cook
  a delicious meal  for them so as to make your
  Baby Love Vegetables
• Chicken Soup with Vegetables
• Once your child starts eating vegetables, cook
  various kinds of vegetables along with chicken
  and a little white oil, salt, butter and black
  pepper to prepare chicken soup which can be very
  tasty since the chicken stalk gets mixed with the
  vegetables. Your child may like it and it is a
  very healthy dish which is essential for the
  childs growth.
• Noodles with Vegetables
• If your child loves the taste of noodles, cook it
  by adding vegetables as per the childs wish and
  serve. They will love to eat and enjoy.
• Change the Food Pattern to make your Baby Love
  Vegetables
• If you serve your baby or toddler the same type
  of food cooked with vegetable every day, chances
  are that they may get bored with it. So, discover
  a new food recipe to provide a variety of taste
  which should be healthy and not spicy at the same
  time.
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• Add different Coloured Vegetables
• While making a dish you may add different
  coloured vegetables like carrot, spinach, tomato,
  beet colours which will attract your child to eat
  them.
• Vegetable Salad
• Prepare a meal of salad by mixing boiled
  vegetables like peas, potato, beans, carrot,
  cucumber, onion, coriander leaves, and add lemon
  juice, salt, chat masala and mix well to serve.
  You can add boiled corn also. It is very healthy
  and delicious.
• Pulses Khichri with Vegetables
• Prepare khichri using rice, various types of dal
  along with vegetables like potato, peas,
  cauliflower, and as per choice with added
  ingredients. Your child may like it, as it tastes
  completely different.Fried rice with vegetables
• Fried Rice with Vegetables
• As your baby grows, he or she may develop a
  different taste. Cook fried rice with various
  vegetables like beans, carrot, onion, cabbage,
  and capsicum in a different style to make your
  child interested in eating the same.
• Creating an interest to make your Baby Love
  Vegetables is an uphill task, but you will have
  to keep at it without getting disappointed.
  Parents have trouble feeding vegetables to
  teenagers even bearing in mind their best
  interests you will have to continue finding new
  ways of feeding them vegetables.
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