Vegetables & fruits your kids love

[smedley]

i have tried avocados, and i am not convinced i like them. all the fat even tho it is good fat makes me crazy esp. since it is not something i am sure i like. i have given it to my kids who ate it cubed with no enthusiasm or lackthereof. but, if i buy a whole one, they certainly dont eat it all before it goes brown.

beth--pudding????? recipe???? please!!! and anyone else with how thei kids like it--PM me so the thread is not about ME!!!

[peacecat]

my son age 15 months
most fruits, apples, bananas,pears, pineapple, cantaloupe, grapes
veggies are harder, he loves sweet potatoes and squash and will pound down veggie booty (kale spinach broccoli carrots etc on lttle corn puffs), most other veg he will eat if their in soup or some other medley type of deal. he'll eat avocado if it's in something but not by itself. same withy spinach and some of the other greens. never plain, but in a soup maybe so...

[Vegetarian_Girl]

christian age 8
loves
apples
banannas
oranges
grapes
strawberrys
greens
spinach

Adam loves
Carrots
greenbeans
milk of course
i took him off of it but he loved it when he was on it. cause i started him out too early.
But he will probally like them again

[missbelgium]

I am desperate. Hanna used to eat everything as a baby and now, at 4 and since toddler age (that would make approx 2 years now), restricts herself to cucumber, apple and potatoes. I have tried every trick imaginable. I just hope she'll grow out of it. She's getting vitamin and mineral supplements... and will accept the occasional spoonful of fresh veggie soup, but that's about it. I am very jealous when I read the lists you all post... !

[d86]

I been trying so hard to make my kid eat veggies but he just won't so the other day I was looking for kid recipes that have vegetables and I was quite impressed with the free recipes site I found

One meal I gave to my kid and didn't complained at all is :

Spinach and Ricotta Pizza Dough

1 cup fresh spinach, leaves lightly steamed
1 cup ricotta cheese
1 egg
4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup (4 tablespoons) olive oil
2 packages dry yeast
2 teaspoons light brown sugar
3/4 cup warm water

Dissolve the yeast in the warm water and stir in the light brown sugar. Set the yeast mixture aside for at least 5 minutes.Meanwhile, put the ricotta cheese and the spinach leaves in a blender and blend at high speed until you have a smooth, bright green mixture.
Sift the flour into a bowl with the salt. Make a depression in the center of the flour and add 3 tablespoons of the oil, the egg, the spinach mixture and the yeast mixture. Put flour on the kneading board and place the dough mixture on the flour. Knead the mixture for 8 to 10 minutes until the dough is uniformly mixed and elastic. Add flour as you knead if necessary to keep the dough from becoming too sticky.When the dough is ready, place it in a
clean bowl that has been brushed with oil. Brush the top of the dough with oil and place a clean cloth over the bowl. Put the bowl in a warm, draft-free place for 11/2 hours.
This recipe will make:2 thin crust pizzas, 12-inches each2 stuffed pizza pockets1 thick crust pizza, 14-inch6 - 6-inch pizzas

Good luck with your kids!

[NaturesPrincess]

I think for my son Kai (22 mos), the question would be which fruits and veggies doesn't he like! He's not too fond of bananas, and he won't eat peas.

My sons name is Kairan! Anyway, he'll be three in March and it's tough to get him eating!

He likes apples, pears, peaches, all berries (except blueberries), all melon, banana's, potatoes, cooked broccoli, cooked carrots, peas, corn.

My daughter is 18 months, and she started liking avacado but not so much now, banana, cranberries, raisons (both of which my son despises), cooked carrots, peas and corn. Not to mention apples and all berries, most fruit really. And of course potatoes.

While she likes the raisons and cranberries, my son likes dried banana chips and dried apple slices. So I carry those around with some dried cereal and softer nuts in a ziplock baggy, they each have their own.

[Willow Tree]

Hayley (5 years)
Carrots (cooked or raw, mostly raw though)
corn kernels
potato (mashed or baked)

apples
bananas
pears
grapes
water melon
canteloup (sp)
strawberries
kiwi fruit
lemons

Skye (2 years)
peas
corn kernels
carrots
cauliflower
(she likes eating frozen veggies too)

same fruit as Hayley.

The girls like just about any fruit, though they're not huge fans of citrus fruits.

My son, Nathan is only 4 months so isn't on solids yet.

[VeggieSchnuddel]

My 5 year old daughter doesn't dislike anything really, but her favourites are:

Broccoli
Brussels Sprouts
Beetroot
raw peppers/carrots
Peas
Corn on cob
black olives
tomatoes
pears
apples
grapes


My 16 month old son eats anything, really, but favourites so far (as in, he will bring them to me from the fruit bowl and/or eat them before the rest on his plate):

pears
grapes!!
mangos
bananas
peas
black olives
sweetcorn
beetroot