Get Your Toddler to eat Fruits and Veggies.

We were walking around the aisle’s of SM Sucat Hypermarket when a happy grandmother passes by and says, “Wow, you’re so lucky. All my grandchildren eat are junk food.”

Sky was walking around munching on a juicy, red apple while walking around.

So how do we get Sky to nibble on fruits?

1. Be an Example. Aside from being conscious with our words and actions, we also make it a point to eat healthy. If he sees us eating a banana, he takes a bite too. More often than not, he spits it out after letting it swirl in his mouth. That’s just fine, since he’s still developing his sense of taste, thus learning his likes and dislikes.
2. Let him help out. Whenever I’m preparing salad, I let Sky toss in the corn, sliced tomatoes, carrots and croutons. He gets excited when he hears me thank him for making the food I just ate.
3. Go Around the Produce Section. We point out the names of a random fruit or vegetable in the produce section of a Grocery. Tell him the color and let him feel a fruit or two. Just keep him exposed to the healthy stuff.
4. Give him fresh juice. Offer him a fresh juices as part of a snack. Not the powdered kind please. Those are loaded with sugar.
5. Put a smile on a fruit or make a broccoli to a tree. Etch out a smiley on an apple, a grape or a banana and let the fruit “talk” to him before he gobbles it up!
6. Mix it in. Add vegetables and fruits in some recipe’s that it may not be exactly called for. Like, carrots, spinach, peas, mushroom in spaghetti meat sauce instead of meat.
7. Relax. If Sky doesn’t like to eat a particular healthy food. Don’t force it. The more you forced it, the more he becomes fussy about it.

Although, once in a while, we let him eat Chips and cookies. We don’t want him to feel too deprived.