Comments on: Getting Kids to Eat Produce at School http://www.realfooduniversity.com/getting-kids-to-eat-produce-at-school/ Master Your Kitchen. Eat Real Food. Sat, 14 Apr 2012 16:09:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Cindy Moore http://www.realfooduniversity.com/getting-kids-to-eat-produce-at-school/comment-page-1/#comment-224 Cindy Moore Sat, 08 Dec 2007 22:23:09 +0000 http://www.fitnessspotlight.com/2007/12/07/getting-kids-to-eat-produce-at-school/#comment-224 I think the idea of being able to choose what they want....and avoid what they don't want that also make it more attractive. My kids were pretty easy. I cooked, they ate. A "no thank you" portion for new and "icky" foods. If they didn't eat they waited until the next meal. They pretty much always ate a pretty good diet without being bugged. I also never forced foods that they tried and truly hated. They also had soda, chips, candy, etc but much less than most kids even then (they're 23 & 25 now). And I also tried to make as many of their treats as possible. Homemade cake isn't as "bad" as store bought! I think the idea of being able to choose what they want….and avoid what they don’t want that also make it more attractive.

My kids were pretty easy. I cooked, they ate. A “no thank you” portion for new and “icky” foods. If they didn’t eat they waited until the next meal. They pretty much always ate a pretty good diet without being bugged. I also never forced foods that they tried and truly hated.

They also had soda, chips, candy, etc but much less than most kids even then (they’re 23 & 25 now). And I also tried to make as many of their treats as possible. Homemade cake isn’t as “bad” as store bought!

]]> By: Scott Kustes http://www.realfooduniversity.com/getting-kids-to-eat-produce-at-school/comment-page-1/#comment-223 Scott Kustes Sat, 08 Dec 2007 20:14:51 +0000 http://www.fitnessspotlight.com/2007/12/07/getting-kids-to-eat-produce-at-school/#comment-223 At least he eats them! And from what you've talked about here, it sounds like you're doing A-OK as a parent...sounds like things are pretty well spot-on in your household. Granted, that's from a guy with no kids. =) Cheers Scott At least he eats them! And from what you’ve talked about here, it sounds like you’re doing A-OK as a parent…sounds like things are pretty well spot-on in your household. Granted, that’s from a guy with no kids. =)

Cheers
Scott

]]> By: Anna http://www.realfooduniversity.com/getting-kids-to-eat-produce-at-school/comment-page-1/#comment-222 Anna Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:21:11 +0000 http://www.fitnessspotlight.com/2007/12/07/getting-kids-to-eat-produce-at-school/#comment-222 My son doesn't always eat the cut up veggies that I put in his lunch box, but I notice that if I leave the container open and out on the table after school (running them under some water if they look too dry - especially peel carrots, they get eaten then - the less I say about them the better ;-). Before dinner when he is ravenous, begging for food, etc., I try to have a container of cut up veggies ready to go in the fridge (I do a few days's worth at a time). Even if he fills up too much on them, it is veggies so no harm done. But bread, milk, yogurt, etc., messes too much with his dinner appetite. Fruit is always out for snacking, but he is usually focussed on "right now, no work" sort of food and/or wanting to get back outside to play and I'm busy with my own pre-dinner activities and don't want to switch gears. If I was a perfect parent, I would probably get him to scrape and cut his own carrots, or help with dinner, but ... I did my best parenting before I had a kid :-). My son doesn’t always eat the cut up veggies that I put in his lunch box, but I notice that if I leave the container open and out on the table after school (running them under some water if they look too dry – especially peel carrots, they get eaten then – the less I say about them the better ;-) .

Before dinner when he is ravenous, begging for food, etc., I try to have a container of cut up veggies ready to go in the fridge (I do a few days’s worth at a time). Even if he fills up too much on them, it is veggies so no harm done. But bread, milk, yogurt, etc., messes too much with his dinner appetite. Fruit is always out for snacking, but he is usually focussed on “right now, no work” sort of food and/or wanting to get back outside to play and I’m busy with my own pre-dinner activities and don’t want to switch gears. If I was a perfect parent, I would probably get him to scrape and cut his own carrots, or help with dinner, but … I did my best parenting before I had a kid :-) .

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