Comments on: FUN FRIDAYS: A Fruit Plate

By: Our Family Is His

Our Family Is His — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:18:00 +0000

My son will eat fruit and veggies by the truck load. I have to force protein into his little system. But, my husband would appreciate the effort. He really would. I will have to start making his plates a little more interesting when I serve him fruit or veggie plates. I guess I just dump and drop. Heheh.

By: gfcfmom

gfcfmom — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:58:00 +0000

If he loves vegetables forget fruits–do a vegetable plate! I think you are so lucky that he likes vegetables. I found some yummy organic snap peas at Fairway…it’s not a fruit, but they were so yummy I thought Henry might like them. And they are sort of sweet. I just feed my kids fruit because they won’t eat vegetables. But the snack tray idea is great for introducing new things. You could do five muffin trays of veggies and have the sixth be mangos and see what happens. My kids usually devour the stuff they love and somehow the momentum of eating they keep eating the unfamiliar stuff. The negative voices are somehow silenced by the novelty of such a fun snack presentation.

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:31:00 +0000

I love this and your snack tray idea — I am going to have to try this with Henry. He is great about veg. but awful about fruit… he doesn’t like sweet things as a general rule. Ideas for not so sweet fruit? (the only fruit he will choke down is a banana and he doesn’t like it)