If your LO spits out veggies...

LI444

How do you get him or her to eat healthy things?  Our son used to be obsessed with cherry tomatoes, to the point of having a tantrum when we cut him off at a party ( he was seriously eating fistfuls and I thought it would be too much acidity).  He also used to eat peas and carrots and broccoli, but last week he started picking out the carrots and leaving them, and then slowly he stopped eating any sort of vegetable.  Even a bowl of freshly cut fruit from the store wasn't very tempting.  Normally fruit is a big deal to him, but lately he's only eaten half a banana in the morning and sometimes raisins.  I tried mincing vegetables and slipping them into the cheese sauce in the macaroni and cheese or in the pasta sauce, but somehow he feels them and spits them out, then continues to eat the noodles.

Any advice or suggestions would be great.  TIA! 

magdusia

The first thing that pooped into my head is cutting a whole in the cherry tomato and stuffing it with pureed veggies using one of those medicine squirts. lol

My LO goes through stages all the time.  One day he can eat an entire head of broccoli and that's it for the next 4 months.  Right now we're at avocado. And ONLY using a chip in an avocado masher dish.  I actually mix the avocados w/ other veggies and sometimes he eats it and sometimes he doesn't.

I would use the tomato to your advantage and just fill it w/ other veggies.  A lot of work but thats pretty much what i do every single day. trick trick trick.

diana.filipi

Ophelia used to eat any veggie I gave her.  Now she spits out broccoli and green beans, no matter what.  I still put them on her plate.  I usually put ketchup or BBQ sauce or butter or cheese sauce or something on them.  She usually still spits them out.  She really likes carrots now.  I cut up carrots and boil them well and put butter and sometimes honey on them.  She will eat those and she likes corn and peas. She likes ravioli so I often get cheese and veggie raviolis.

Mostly, I don't stress about it.  I usually give her what we're having and I don't sweat it if she won't eat some of the food.  Her tastes have gone through a few changes already and it'll keep happening.  KEEP SERVING THE STUFF!

LI444

Thanks for the advice and encouragement

The tomatoes actually haven't been working lately, either.  I was so happy because I bought a giant box of them thinking he'd at least be eating one vegetable, but after a few bites he was done-for the rest of the week.

I'll keep serving and maybe try the avocado trick, because sometimes he eats those. 

celiabwatson

Pureed veggies in quesadillas is my best trick. I usually use smashed up squash because it's very similar in texture and color to the cheese. I also use a taco seasoned cheese so the cheese flavor is clearly the dominate one. It seems to work so far. 

I also do lots of different purees in waffles/pancakes and that works great for our son. He's a texture guy so I just try to make the veggies be a texture that he likes and he goes for it.

Oh, one more, veggie "latkes". I shred carrots, zucchini, yellow squash, sweet potatoes etc, add an egg, seasoning and flour. Then fry them up like a potato pancake. My son loves them (and so do I, try some ground ginger). Yes, I realize they're fried so not a great every day food, but a delicious "sometimes food".