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Boy, I am posty today. So, I was looking at this book at Walmart, about getting your kids to eat their vegetables, Deceptively Delicious.
The premise of the book is that you puree vegetables, then add them as ingredients to things your kids want to eat, like mac and cheese, desserts, and so on, and the veggies are pretty undetectable, so they "won't even know they're eating them."
On the one hand, I am absolutely fundamentally against lying to children to get them to do something good for them. I might make an exception if there was no other possible way, but I'm not down with the "won't even know they're eating it." I'm also against hiding vegetables in what looks like unhealthy food, because part of feeding the kid is teaching her to make good eating choices-- and if I'm sneaking the good stuff into her food, she's not learning to make good choices, I'm making them for her and pretending that they're bad.
On the other hand, I'd rather poke myself in the eye with a chopstick, repeatedly, than eat cauliflower by itself or with ranch dip or in any other fashion I've seen it served. However, pureeing it and putting it IN something sounds like a good nutritional solution for ME to enjoy eating it. I don't think it would be fair to "make the kid suffer" through eating something she doesn't like the taste of, when there are other ways to prepare it that we both might like-- as long as we're BOTH aware that we're putting it there.
On the gripping hand, she's such a picky little thing that she's capable of deciding something "looks yucky" or "scares her" or "tastes gross" even if she ate it with relish last week. Even if it WAS relish.
So-- would YOU go to the trouble of pureeing and adding healthy green/yellow vegetable ingredients to your cooking? Or would you just take a multivitamin and be done with it? Or something else?
The premise of the book is that you puree vegetables, then add them as ingredients to things your kids want to eat, like mac and cheese, desserts, and so on, and the veggies are pretty undetectable, so they "won't even know they're eating them."
On the one hand, I am absolutely fundamentally against lying to children to get them to do something good for them. I might make an exception if there was no other possible way, but I'm not down with the "won't even know they're eating it." I'm also against hiding vegetables in what looks like unhealthy food, because part of feeding the kid is teaching her to make good eating choices-- and if I'm sneaking the good stuff into her food, she's not learning to make good choices, I'm making them for her and pretending that they're bad.
On the other hand, I'd rather poke myself in the eye with a chopstick, repeatedly, than eat cauliflower by itself or with ranch dip or in any other fashion I've seen it served. However, pureeing it and putting it IN something sounds like a good nutritional solution for ME to enjoy eating it. I don't think it would be fair to "make the kid suffer" through eating something she doesn't like the taste of, when there are other ways to prepare it that we both might like-- as long as we're BOTH aware that we're putting it there.
On the gripping hand, she's such a picky little thing that she's capable of deciding something "looks yucky" or "scares her" or "tastes gross" even if she ate it with relish last week. Even if it WAS relish.
So-- would YOU go to the trouble of pureeing and adding healthy green/yellow vegetable ingredients to your cooking? Or would you just take a multivitamin and be done with it? Or something else?
