The child tried all the useful products and now in any did not want to eat vegetables? But how useful cutlet with broccoli, fragrant pumpkin soup, salad with cucumber and mashed potatoes? Really forget?
Consultants lure know that develop a child appetite useful to food, including the vegetables, not too difficult. Has consistently pursued a policy of healthy eating for the whole family. This will benefit not only your child, but also for adults. And we'll show you the basic steps in this direction.
1. To love and to eat vegetables themselves
This is probably the most important, because the child grows it in the family, with all its habits (including food), and especially, in the first years of life tends to repeat what they are doing meaningful for him adults.
Even before the crumbs begin solid foods, he was familiar with the taste of the food that my mother prefers. This influence is evident even in utero: the taste of the amniotic fluid changes depending on the woman's food.
During numerous experiments, the children have always preferred the food on which leaned mother during pregnancy. But in the first months of baby's life unconsciously, literally at the hands of relatives, firmly imprint the images and smells of the food that the whole family eats. Therefore pointless to expect that while the parents eat pasta and sausage, is a pipsqueak with an appetite to absorb carrot soup...
2. Maintain breastfeedinge
This is important from two points of view.
- Breast milk has a connection with the food my mother. It contains light shades of taste and smell maternal food for adults is almost imperceptible, but for the baby quite sensitive. Studies have shown that grudnichki much more likely to eat the same food that a breastfeeding mother, including vegetables.
- Children with infants, especially feed more than a year, generally inclined to support healthier eating habits. For example, in one recent study, babies who have completed breastfeeding before the introduction of complementary foods, usually agree on any one vegetable a day. And others of the same age, but still breastfed, ate 3-4 different vegetables. Also, one study of food habits of children showed that children continue to receive breast milk, and after a year, already aged 6-8 years ate several times more vegetables than crumbs for which breast-feeding is over before he turned 3 months.
3. Limit the supply of sweet
Of all the products of the sugar - the most serious competitor of vegetables! Sweet tooth lies in the instinctive preferences of the child.
If during the development of eating habits (in the first half year of life) to give the kid a lot sweet, especially industrial production, then it will develop a clear understanding of "the sweetest, the it's better". And in the future it will choose the more sugary foods, ignoring vegetables.
Early exposure to sugar and sugary foods affects food preferences up to adolescence, to which many of the children fit already obese. Therefore, sweet cottage cheese, or sprinkled with sugar, which the grandmother wants to spoil his grandson, could have far-reaching consequences.
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4. Provide access to different vegetables
The child may like some vegetables and do not like the others - this is perfectly normal. He should be able to try different and choose.
Well acquainted with the crumbs first neutral-tasting vegetables, and then offer a vivid taste. All kinds of cabbage, pumpkins, peppers, corn, beans and green leafy vegetables: the wider the range of offered vegetables, the easier it will be to your baby include something from them in the number of their favorite foods.
5. Do not put pressure on the child, but to continue to offer even in the absence of special interest
One of the experiments on the development of babies of healthy dietary habits has found that this large variety of vegetables in the early weaning should be combined with the frequency of the proposal.
- Before you eat for some significant amount of vegetables, it is important to a child many times to see this vegetable. Best of all - his appetite to eat home. But even if this does not happen and the crumb does not show any interest in the broccoli or carrots, it is important to continue to offer him these and other vegetables.
- Do not exert pressure on the kid, this leads to resistance! But he needs to see the vegetables at ease and be able to try them, if they wish. A common mistake parents - offer vegetable 3-4 times and seeing a lack of interest, give him no more.
- To many vegetables, especially green leafy (kale, spinach, green beans), interest increased after 8-10 sentences! And if you gently, without focusing, continues to offer vegetables, then their desire to eat the crumbs increases. Parents who have followed this model, found that in 15 months the children do not just eat a lot more vegetables, 80% of them - 4 out of every 5 children's - loved the vegetables that they originally rejected. And 60% of children have kept these preferences to 6 years.
6. Vegetables give different textures
At first the baby, of course, it is easier to cope with the mashed potatoes.
Meanwhile, a new popular system of complementary feeding baby-led weaning It does not involve the introduction of mashed food given right pieces. However, according to recent data, the stage pyurirovannoy or shredded food is also important for better absorption of food, and for the ability to cope with a variety of food textures.
Shredded food at the 1st stage provides important processing experience her mouth and gives richer flavors. One study, for example, showed that the children who first ate a carrot in the form of mashed potatoes, a year more than it already was eaten in the form of pieces, than those whom it immediately and offered pieces.
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7. Be sure to offer a meal homemade
For busy moms give a jar of ready feeding 1-2 times a week is not a problem, but from the point of view of developing healthy eating habits for your child is important homemade food. It is also proven research data dietary habits of children.
Mashed potatoes can be cooked in a blender or just cook and soften with a little butter - but it tastes home, not factory food contributes to the development of appetite for food, which will be the crumbs on the table all of his childhood.
Also you will be interested to read this: 5 reasons to eat potatoes every day
