Sometimes you have to hide things.
I am learning that lately. Gardner has entered a major picky phase. Well, it's not that he's limiting himself to only one or two foods....it's really ten or 12. But that is a drastic difference from just a few months ago when he'd put anything in his mouth that I fed him, no questions asked.
I am learning that I can make him eat certain vegetables by hiding them among his favorite foods, or more creatively, by making them into a yummier version. For instance, he despises carrots (they used to be his favorite jarred food). BUT, I made Cooking Light's carrot souffle...and he couldn't stuff it in fast enough. He won't eat zucchini anymore....but he'll eat a piece of zucchini bread. I think that main idea is to get these vitamin-rich foods IN him right now....we can deal with the teaching him to like them for their value later on (after all, I didn't even like brussels sprouts myself until I was nearly 20).
Another hiding trick.... He has started on multivitamins, and I was told by Dr. Treash to give him gummies instead of the chewables until he gets more back teeth. The trouble is that he hates the texture of anything gummy (even candy). Ken, my brilliant engineering-minded better half, gave me the wonderful idea the other night of dicing one into tiny pieces and hiding them within the holes of Cheerios. Ta-da! Gardner gobbled them up, never noticing that we were putting nutritious goodness within his favorite finger snack food.
I will share more hiding techniques AND vegetable-enhancing recipes as I find them!
I am learning that lately. Gardner has entered a major picky phase. Well, it's not that he's limiting himself to only one or two foods....it's really ten or 12. But that is a drastic difference from just a few months ago when he'd put anything in his mouth that I fed him, no questions asked.
I am learning that I can make him eat certain vegetables by hiding them among his favorite foods, or more creatively, by making them into a yummier version. For instance, he despises carrots (they used to be his favorite jarred food). BUT, I made Cooking Light's carrot souffle...and he couldn't stuff it in fast enough. He won't eat zucchini anymore....but he'll eat a piece of zucchini bread. I think that main idea is to get these vitamin-rich foods IN him right now....we can deal with the teaching him to like them for their value later on (after all, I didn't even like brussels sprouts myself until I was nearly 20).
Another hiding trick.... He has started on multivitamins, and I was told by Dr. Treash to give him gummies instead of the chewables until he gets more back teeth. The trouble is that he hates the texture of anything gummy (even candy). Ken, my brilliant engineering-minded better half, gave me the wonderful idea the other night of dicing one into tiny pieces and hiding them within the holes of Cheerios. Ta-da! Gardner gobbled them up, never noticing that we were putting nutritious goodness within his favorite finger snack food.
I will share more hiding techniques AND vegetable-enhancing recipes as I find them!
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