raw veges?

He may not like them because they are crunchy. Have you tried "just cooked" veges, like in a stir fry? Or carrots/celery with dip?

haleigh will only eat hers raw lol
we fight to get ehr to eat them cooked or steamed, although she loves stirfrys with stirfry sauce or mixed in spag bol.
even if he still chewing on it hes still getting some vitamins out of them well thats what my plunket nurse told me, she said not to stress with haleigh chewing then spitting out.
do you eat raw veges with him while hes eating them? sometimes they like to mimic mum and dad and will do what you do

So you are developing a creative flair with food too?
Nothing wrong with hiding stuff or creating a sculpture out of a carrot , broccoli, celery & potato lol. Only that it doesnt get eaten....
Brae is the same, loves fruit, meat & everything thing else except veggies.(loves puha but-but no we aren't cave people who wear flax skirts lol) I try not to worry about it but keep offering the veggies.
Have you looked at vitamins maybe? I know they are for 3+ but you could always crush them into something that is liked

My theory is that some sort of nutrition must be absorbed through the skin/mouth... otherwise there is no way in hell Hannah would get enough vitamins etc. She's a chronic chewer and spitter outer.

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i've made some cheese sauce coz he loves that so maybe i'll give him some of that to dip the veges into. ah well, if he doesn't eat the, he doesn't eat them, i don't want to force the issue and make him hate them forever.

Ayja is not a big vege eater in any way shape or form however i do get away with hiding them in cooked foods so made do with that. i figure any vege eaten, even if it is cooked, is better than no vege eaten really.   I do spag bol too, but will add a few very finely grated carrots to the mixture and stir through before serving, enough so that they are hot, but not overly cooked. it's great cos it blends in with the red pastery sauce stuff on it anyway, and the texture is very similar to the mince. I made the mistake once of not grating it finely enough and paris goes "what's this?" so i have left it a while and will do it again soon once they have forgotten.. and make sure i grate it finely. mostly, if we put veges on ayja's plate, they will end up hidden underneath it, cheeky girl, or a few bits chewed and spat out. maybe 1 piece actually eaten.

All in all, they do end up eating veges if you perservere. every night we would stick them on paris's plate and went through all that. And once she got old enough, we managed to get her to try new things and actually not spit it out (we have the one bite rule, in that she has to have 1 bite, and eat it, of everything on her plkate, or anything new.. so she has at least 1 bite of things she hates), i read somewhere that it can take up to 10 times for babies and toddlers to taste something before they get used to it.. so keep trying. slowly we are managing to add new veges to her list of ones she likes, her very favourite is honeyed carrots though, and brocolli. she loves salads in wraps or soft tacos with just a little meat.   her daycare also makes up wraps for the kids at lunch times some days. As long as there is cheese in with the salad she will eat it. Overall, she does better with veges. Ayja does better with fruit. I just encourage fruit on brekkie in the mornings, either peaches or fruit salad or pears, or in ayja's case, a banana. fruit with lunch or snacks and if they have pudding that usually has fruit too, either fruit and ice-cream or something along those lines. veges they have at tea times, and i am not too fussed at the mo if ayja doesn't eat them cos i know it will come and she's getting more than enough goodness from her fruit.

The only vegetable that Fabian will eat is beetroot - tried everything - not worried though, he's healthy weight and size, he'd eat cheese and bananas all day if he had his way! I can sometimes get him to eat a salmon, spinach pasta bake, but if he sees it it's off the table!

lol kat, that's a good idea. oooh, and if you wouldn't mind PMing me that quiche recipe i'd be sooo apreciative pretty please?