> You may well remember our fabulous competition with Green Giant last month, where we asked for your hints and tips on how to get kids to eat 5-a-day. The prize was a fabulous Abel
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You may well remember our fabulous competition with Green Giant last month, where we asked for your hints and tips on how to get kids to eat 5-a-day. The prize was a fabulous Abel & Cole vegetable box!
Choosing a winning comment was a really hard task, every comment was so brilliant and were really good ideas and ways to encourage 5-a-day, some great ones included:
Charlotte Jones – My two-year old daughter loves her five a day,
Getting her to eat them now is really child’s play.
Her first word was banana! She loves to eat her fruit,
She’s tried so many different tastes, even celery root!
When we go out shopping, I let her help to choose,
It’s important for her to see the different textures & colours of foods.
Her Grandma has a vegetable patch and we often go round to pick
Our fruit and veg for tea that night, it normally does the trick.
She eats peas from the garden and loves to pop the pod,
It helps her to get used to them so she doesn’t find them odd.
But the winning comment was chosen as:
Hannah Moody – I have loads of trips up my sleeve when it comes to getting my boy to eat a balanced diet.
1. Lead by example – if they see you eating well and exercising then they’ll want to too.
2. Involve the kids when choosing fruit and veg at the supermarket – my boy is only 1 year old but enjoys picking up different coloured/textured foods to try.
3. In the early days (when weaning), don’t fill up their beaker with juice! Mine still drink water because I never got them hooked onto juice in the first place. Offer them plenty of whole fresh fruit instead – it’s much healthier and yummier because it hasn’t been processed – plus they enjoy being able to see and touch and smell it.
4. Offer fruits and veg as snacks as well as part of balanced meals and desserts – stronger and more bitter veg can be easily hidden if pureed, blended into sauces or even hidden in a sandwich or healthy snack such as stuffed into a juicy mushroom.
5. Steam or boil to lock in nutrients.
A big well done to Hannah Moody, we hope you enjoy your Abel & Cole Vegetable Box!
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