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Convincing Your Boys To Eat Vegetables

By George Dodson


Back in our childhood days, many if not all were always reminded by parents to eat veggies to stay strong and healthy.

Let's face it, some vegetables just don't taste good. In this regard, it will depend of course upon the persons' taste buds.

We already know that eating vegetables bring about many benefits. These foods are equipped with all the essential nutrients and vitamins that the body require. They also vary in texture and color.

Although there are many good supplements which provide these essential vitamins and minerals, we know that nature tends to provide what we need in just the right amounts and combinations that our body can easily digest. Thus, we really need to teach our children to eat veggies. Question is, how do you get kids to eat vegetables?

For starters, you can start with the vegetables that doesn't taste too awful for children then try to make modifications for other vegetables. You can try putting sugar on your meal or add squash. You might saute carrots in butter and other flavors such as garlic and, which modifies the taste and makes them more palatable. A few of the best tasting vegetables are cauliflower as well as broccoli when sauted or cooked with sauce. If you're looking to hide the not-so-good taste of the vegetable, you can simply opt for these styles of cooking..

A lot of vegetables however taste better when they are left as they are and not cooked. There's probably a reason how these vegetables taste how they are. Many a kid is gone out in the garden with a salt shaker and eat the tomatoes right off the vine. In addition, you can also nibble on carrots right after picking from the garden since they are sweet and actually taste really great. Then again there are those veggies that doesn't have the same traits such as turnips and rutabagas.

Like potatoes and squash, these can be prepared with butter or other seasoning and taste is not bad.

Having to boil a vegetable lessens its nutrient as well as vitamin content and not to mention it degrades the taste. You retain most of the vitamins and minerals in the vegetables themselves, they taste more like their natural state, and are much easier to fix. Furthermore, cooking your veggies Al Dente can also boost your meals' taste.

Compared to all other foods, vegetables remain the best since they posses the most nutrient, mineral and vitamin content. Having to feed your kids with vegetables are actually not that difficult at all if you know how to improvise the taste and cook it that way your kids would love. Through this, you'll be able to guarantee your child's' healthy well being.




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