My kids are not your typical “picky eaters”. They eat things other kids wouldn’t ever dream of eating. For example, my son likes Kibbeh Nayye which is raw lamb. My husband is Lebanese and like he says, he grew up eating it for baby food. Now while I made him wait until the kids were older to feed it to them, they’ve both had it and liked it. Though they have no clue what it is!
So while they will eat raw lamb, sometimes something as simple as a sandwich, they fight me on. But one of the things I make sure I always have in my house is Tyson’s Chicken Nuggets. They are 100% all natural and really really good! And right now, the only way I can get my daughter to eat chicken is if it is in the shape of a nugget. While I would love to say I am “that mom” who can make a chicken breast look like the tasty nuggets you can buy from Tyson…but I’m not. I’m sure I could make my nuggets look perfect like their nuggets, but why reinvent the wheel?
What about you? Are your kids picky eaters? What do you do to get them to eat?
Leave me a comment telling me how you get your picky eaters to eat or idea you have for how to get them to eat and I will randomly draw 4 numbers (using random.org) and you will win a coupon for a FREE bag of Tyson Chicken Nuggets!
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We put peanut butter on just about everything 🙂 My kids LOVE peanut butter!
If we dip it in strawberry yogurt my son will eat things.
Erica
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I've taken to letting them dip their food in whatever they want, as long as it doesn't gross me out, lol!
My son loves Ranch dressing, ketchup and honey. And my daughter is good with Ranch, and will douse potatoes of any kind in ketchup, but only those 2 dips!
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I love to make food appealing to them. I make tiny turkey meatballs, stick a pretzel rod in them and have little bwols of different dipping sauces like marinara, honey mustard,BBQ sauce.
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I will use melted low fat cheese for them to dip their brocolli or cauliflower in.
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I found that it has to eye appealing for children to eat so I try to make it fun by cutting sandwiches into variious shapes cometimes I use cookie cutters.
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My children would not eat peas cooked but he funny thing is they will eat them frozen by the handfuls. I also freeze blueberries and raspberries. I will put them in their glasses of water or they will eat by themselves.
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My kids will eat anything! When my son was about 10 he ordered a chicken liver dinner with okra and cottage cheese and the waitress laughed – she thought he was kidding.
I am planning to disguise healthy veggies in the form of purees into my child's macaroni & cheese and mashed potatoes when he is old enough to eat these foods & refuse veggies! A litle pureed squash in the mac & cheese & pureed cauliflower in the potatoes and he won't know a thing!
I get the children to eat their fruit by making little bowls of dipping sauces, yogurt, dark chocolate and peanut butter.
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Another way I get my daughter to eat new foods is by making it into fun shapes!
Whether it be a sandwich cut into a heart, or carrot squiggles, if it looks neat, she is willing to try it!
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I will take Pillsbury biscuits and roll each biscuit out, put brocolli and shredded cheeese in them. I then fold them over and bake them per instructions. They love them
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I try to be creative by cutting veggie into animal shapes or so.
Or I blend carrots/broccoli into baking.
My kids also like stew, so I cook lots of veggies with chicken stew and they love it.