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I offer. They choose to eat or not. I have children who eat fantastically. It might take them a while to do it but generally they all do. I don't have stress about food. Everyone has the chance to eat. Everyone has a relaxed meal environment and they eat or are hungry.
If they don't eat at one meal, they make it up the next.

Originally Posted by momneedscoffee:
HELP!
How do you get dc kids to eat vegetables? Right now the only kids that eat ANY veg i serve are my own two! The other eaters are 18 mo and 3 yr. I feel like an 18 month old child absolutely should not have such an aversion to vegetables! Any veg I give she either throws on the floor or mutilates on her tray. The 3 yr old boy will take ONE bite if I coerce him, but beyond that it goes down the garbage disposal. I have tried peas, carrots (raw and cooked), brocolli, avocado, celery (with pb), corn, cucumber...you name it.
So, how do you serve vegetables so that kids actually eat and enjoy them? Favorite ways to at least sneak them into foods? Or is this a lost cause?