picky eaters:..just for fun

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Saw this today and thought people would enjoy it.

http://www.kitchendaily.com/2010/03/29/picky-eaters-china?icid=main|htmlws-main-\

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It was an eye opener for me. I recently started focusing on eating 10+ servings

of 'fresh' vegetables a day. I only put them on my plate, assuming my children

wouldn't eat them, and provided other options for my kids. I was even eating

tomatoes, red peppers, even slightly cooked onions at breakfast. I figured I

would work on their nutrition, once I had a better hold on mine. Guess what? My

children started asking me if they could have some of what was on my

plate......tomatoes for breakfast? yep. This past week, I steamed a head of

cauliflower assuming my husband and I would eat it. My apraxic son pipes up, " I

love cauliflower? " (yeah? since when?)He ate a bunch of it. So then, his sister

decides she has to have some, too. My find: Having vegetables available, but NOT

offering them to my kids resulted in far better vegetable consumption and

immensely less headache than telling them they had to eat their vegetables.

Gretchen