What is a green vegetable and healthy but also that is suitable 4 children!!??!
What is a green vegetable and healthy but also that is suitable 4 children!!??
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Fresh garden peas - young and sweet. They can eat them raw like nuts.
They tend to like peas. If you give them just the florets of the broccoly they'll have them, don't give them the stalks
Cabbage with bacon - yummy
greens beans ,peas,spinach ,etc... any veggie that is cooked well is good for children
any green vegetable!! broccoli, spinach,lettuce,peas,green beans,mange tout,courgettes, the list is endless
broccoli every time, tell the little loves they are dinosaurs and the broccoli are trees.
My kids think fresh green beans and snap peas are a treat. During the winter I get them from a supermarket, but during the summer we take a trip to a farmers market. Then I let the kids sit outside and help snap the ends off. They get to eat a few fresh, then I microwave steam the rest with a little bit of butter and salt and pepper. The kids love it and think it's even better cause they get to help!
Broccoli, peas, cabbage, mange tout, cucumber, green peppers, courgettes, spinach. Some can be used as crudites with a dip - something children usually enjoy. You can also use as pizza toppings as kids love pizza. Otherwise you could blend to a smooth texture and mix with other things - pasta sauce is a good way of disguising vegetables! You can use cabbage in bubble 'n' squeak and could also use lots of vegetables in a stir fry. Perhaps get the kids to help you prepare the food - they may be more interested in eating it that way. How about taking them to your local pick your own (if you have one) and then they will see them growing, and can help you pick them?
Brussels sprouts.
peas, green beans, asparagus, by my longtime experience as a father of four all seem to be good, and palatable for young ones.
but the best out of these three seems to be the peas, as finger food, and fun to pick up with a toothpick as the children get older. plus they have the sweetest taste of the three.
My daughter is one year old and she will eat any green (or any other colour) vegetable. I guess it is how you train them.
Green vegetables means leafy vegetables(Ex: Amaranth, spinach etc) . They are easily digested to small kids. These are suitable for children because they are good sources of many vitamins and minerals your body needs to stay healthy, like vitamin A, vitamin C, and calcium. They are also rich sources of fiber and iron. The darker the leaves, the more nutrients the vegetable usually has.
What green vegetable is not suitable for children?
Pak choi, stir fried for less than 4 minutes.
Spinach washed, shaken and heated through - wilted.
Broccoli cut into flowerets and steamed or boiled for 5 minutes.
It's not a question of suitability, it's a question of how you intoduce greens to your kids. Children pick up on bad vibes very quickly. If you give negative signs to your child, like thinking, 'Oh my God, this is spinach, is he/she going to eat it?' then the child will pick up on this.
Try fresh peas - give them to kids in the pods and they can pop them open, and eat like sweets. They are really crisp and sweet.
So I reckon the question is really - "How do I get my children to eats green veg?"
I only have experience with my son, but boys tend to be a gruesome lot so I do things like make pictures on the plate with veg eg brussel spouts become multi-headed monsters with broccoli bodies, carrot arms and legs. I then splatter tomato ketchup everywhere as a blood replacement showing where the monster gets stabbed with the knife etc.
"Swamp Soup" is pretty good too. Basically veg soup (anything in the fridge boiled up and chicken stock added) then hide some small chippolatta sausages in and call them crocodiles.
I suppose the less fun alternative is what my Mum used to do......"eat what's on your plate or go hungry!"
Enjoy :)
all greens are good' but broccoli is the very best,its nutritious,exellent source of anti cancer,
My kids have always like eating trees (brocolli florets). they also love the crispness of bell pepper.
Kids will eat any vegetable. Just don't overcook them - it makes them taste mushy and yucky and takes away all the nutrients.
My mother had a foolproof way of getting me to eat my food, she stood behind me holding a big stick and welted me over the head and shouilders if it wasn't being eaten fast enough. Sixty years on and I choose my own meals, no cabbage oozing water, no other veg cooked to death, and no compulsory puddings. (Stodge with stodgy custard stacked on top.......
kangkong, broccoli