Sneaking healthful ingredients into food has been a tactic used by moms since the first mom disguised vegetables from her picky eater by mashing them to make soup. There have been numerous books written which offer ways to sneak nutrition into meals.
Hiding nutrition is helpful in the short-run, but I believe the goal should be for children to learn to enjoy the various textures and flavors of whole foods. There isn't one good reason why whole foods shouldn't be your youngster's Preferred Food! Now is the perfect time to start.
Healthy Casseroles
Taste for nutritious foods can be acquired at any age. The first step is to limit sugar and junk foods. Cooking delicious wholesome meals definitely will move your picky child in the direction of healthy eating. Casseroles are a way to meld flavors of healthful foods usually refused, like spinach, so that they are acceptable. The spinach takes on the other flavors in the dish.
Then you'll want to incorporate multi-sensory learning at the table. When you include all your youngster's senses, you open the door to learning to enjoy healthful foods. Speak to your child about the foods attributes. Then smell, touch, experience a new or refused food before you ask that a taste be taken.
Super foods can be disguised to help build super strong kids. Stealth health is valuable while you're in the initial stages of transforming your child to a healthy eater. Stealth health can be especially helpful, if your picky eater is very limited in her choices, especially when it comes to vegetables.
Whole foods are a vital part of the healthy eater equation and should be integrated from the very beginning of your child's eating transformation. Especially during the initial process, you'll want to slip them into things he's already eating.
Often it's as simple as changing from an inferior brand of bread to a nutritionally-packed one at your grocers. It's supercharging a breakfast fruit smoothie with flax seed oil, barley green, or powdered acia berries or vitamin C. Other times, it's making a healthful pureed vegetable soup for the vegetable-challenged child. Once veggies are no longer recognizable (because they have been pureed in the blender) a picky child is none-the-wiser she's eaten something healthful. One of the most fun approaches, as well as challenging, is integrating snack and dessert items they aren't only tasty, but healthful.
Stealth Health
Nonna Joann Bruso is the author of "Baby Bites: Transforming a Picky Eater into a Healthy Eater." "Baby Bites" is a guide for parents of Picky Eaters that actually works. In only 7 days, your finicky child will be tasting new foods!
For more information on healthy family cooking go to: http://www.babybites.info and http://www.nonna.libsyn.com.
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