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Tricking kids to get them to eat different foods
What do you call things so your kids would eat them?
DS is 2 1/2 so far he's had:
Yellow green beans - wax beans in a vege mis. There was green beans, wax/yellow beans and carrots. He eats green beans so I started calling the other ones yellow-green beans and he ate them.
He eats "fish nuggets" - aka - fried scallops. They look like chicken nuggets so no problem - he even asks for them sometimes
He's been on a "rabiolli" kick. Last night I made perogies - he didn't like them. So I make some "potatoe ravioli" and they were good.
I tried to get him to eat small kidney beans by telling him they were red peas but it didn't fly. He said they looked like the beans he ate at his dad's house  
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Posted 10/12/10 1:24 PM  |
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Re: Tricking kids to get them to eat different foods
Not me, but my mom would tell my son when he was about 3 or 4 that he was eating popcorn chicken, when he was really eating popcorn shrimp, LOL! He's 14 now and to this day he still brings it up every now and then! To get him to eat fish I would bread it and fry it and then cover it with sauce, he thought he was eating chicken, LOL! Of course, none of this would fly now!
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| Posted 10/12/10 1:45 PM |
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heathergirl
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Re: Tricking kids to get them to eat different foods
Jessica Seinfeld came out with a cookbook called "Deceptively Delicious" which uses food purees to sneak in different foods, but it requires a lot of prepping and planning to do so. Not so easy to do when you don't have the luxury of Seinfeld's $$$. I bought it for my SIL and I don't think she ever used it.
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| Posted 10/12/10 2:15 PM |
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Re: Tricking kids to get them to eat different foods
My MIL bought me that book. I think even if you used baby food puree, its like one container of sweet potatoe you add to your mac & cheese for a family of 4... I guess its something but doesn't seem like you are sneeking in the full amount of veges they should be getting. I agree - not worth the effort.
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| Posted 10/12/10 2:24 PM |
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NASP09
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Re: Tricking kids to get them to eat different foods
Posted by heathergirl
Jessica Seinfeld came out with a cookbook called "Deceptively Delicious" which uses food purees to sneak in different foods, but it requires a lot of prepping and planning to do so. Not so easy to do when you don't have the luxury of Seinfeld's $$$. I bought it for my SIL and I don't think she ever used it.
I have the Deceptively Delicious cookbook. It has some good ideas, I have made several recipes. Its not the cost so much as the time and hassle of steaming all the veggie's and then pureeing them.
But as far as renaming some foods, I know kids who hate cauliflower but love "white broccoli" :)
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| Posted 10/12/10 2:34 PM |
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jilliibabii
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Re: Tricking kids to get them to eat different foods
 I don't have kids, but when I was about 5 years old, my mom had made me a hamburger and I told her "I don't eat red meat." I was such a snot. All I would eat is chicken. She used to get me to eat pork by saying it was a "special chicken".
ETA: I still don't eat red meat. I was a kid who stuck to her guns!
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| Posted 10/12/10 2:37 PM |
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Re: Tricking kids to get them to eat different foods
I heard of someone who didn't eat steak but ate red chicken!
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| Posted 10/12/10 2:45 PM |
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