How many servings of veggies is your toddler getting?

I feel horrible that Isabella is not getting enough veggies. Fruit she's great with. The only veggie she really loves is broccoli. I usually have to disguise other veggies in tomato sauce for her to eat, and even sometimes that's not successful.

How do your toddlers eat veggies? How often? What?

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Andrew eats veggies once a day. Usually sweet potatoes, broccoli, green beans and potatoes.

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She gets a veggie every night with dinner...either peas, carrots, broccoli, spinach pancake, corn...
Sometimes she has it for lunch too but she eats such a big portion for dinner I don't want to upset her stomach...

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DD wont eat them! I try but she is such a picky eater Fruit no problem everyday but not veggies..

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not enough I am sure. I try to make her things and hide veggies in it. Like Mac and cheese I add peas. When I make turkey meatballs I shred carrots into them. Veggie Burgers mixed with Rice - things like that.

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She only gets veggie once a day. She is not big on them but I at least try every day with dinner.

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She gets veggies with lunch and with dinner.
You can try shredding up carrots and zucchini into meatballs. Even adding pureed veggies to them will help.
Also, don't be afraid to really give stronger tasting foods. I will give Ava zucchini that is brushed with olive oil and balsamic vinegar, a little salt and pepper adn grill it on the bbq. Sweet potato "fries" are a great way to get them to eat veggies, too. Or zucchini pancakes. There's a lot of different ways to get it into them. Just keep trying

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My DD is 3 and won't eat a veggie so I still give her baby food vegetables. She usually eats a box with lunch and with dinner. I know it's not perfect but it's better than nothing.

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Ella gets at least 1 veggie serving a day, often more. Fortunately she loves peas, carrots and corn, so she'll always scarf those down and I can add them into other meals.

Spinach gnocchi is a favorite staple of hers as well (my MIL makes them all the time and freezes them for us).

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Julie loves vegies, she eats them everyday.
Try cutting up a sweet potato in French fry strips and baking them, she might be fooled for a bit anyway or mashing up cauliflower tell her they are mashed potatoes.

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Aly is 13 mths and still having a hard time with table food so she gets atleast 1 baby food jar of veggies a day and then maybe a veggie we are having, if its something shes able to handle. She isnt a big fan - - Im going to try the sweet potato fries PP mentioned..

ETA the last week or so we have been giving her V8 every other day or so - she loves it and I figured it gets her a couple of servings of veggies anyway...

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Julia LOVES raw veggies, she loves carrots and cucumbers with a little ranch dip, she will also eat steamed broccoli, and I put canned peas and carrots into her pasta sometimes.


ETA: she eats veggies everyday, and I give them to her for snacks, you can buy the carrots and dip together, it looks like the mini crackers and cheese packages.

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lunch and dinner

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thanks for the suggestions!

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Aly is GREAT with veggies....gets them with lunch and dinner most days.

she likes canned italian cut green beans
broccoli
cauliflower
corn
peas...she could eat a whole package of frozen peas
I make the Green Giant frozen blends...they are different mixes with seasoning--she'll eat most of those varieties
zucchini....eh...depends on her mood

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She eats a serving of veggies with lunch and a serving with dinner. I try to give her greens for lunch - she's more amenable to eating whatever I give her when she's at school, during the day, but at night, she's much more picky.

I also find creative ways of giving her veggies - mix it with pasta sauce and cheese, saute with bread crumbs, or give her ravioli/tortellini with veggies (like artichoke/spinach ravioli).

If all else fails, she will ALWAYS eat corn or sweet potato.

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None! He is so picky and right now is only living on peaches, necatrines, banana's, pears, strawberries, yogurt, applesauce, pizza ,mac n-cheese and waffles. I have tried adding veggies to the mac-n-cheese and he will not even try it. He has a habit of smelling foods so if he doesn't like he won't eat it. If she is gaining weight and her ped. knows what she is eating and isn't concerned then I wouldn't be either.

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NONE! I try hiding them, and as soon as he realizes they are in there, he spits out the food and wont eat anything at all after that. I lose him totally. I keep trying, but he has yet to give in.