26-01-2017, 12:50 PM
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It's only way I get courgette into grace
But yes it makes it possible to use courgettes as pasta which cuts carbs and calories nicely.
Also makes veggies in salad more appealing and again gets carrot etc into grace.
I wish they'd been around when the boys were young it may have saved the veggie wars !
27-01-2017, 12:08 PM
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Yep, just the latest stupid fad.Don't play with your food. Just eat good natural ingredients.
If you are having to spiralise vegetables to get kids to eat them then imo your are doing it wrong. Kids rejecting foods is nothing more than a mind set and kids develop such mind sets from other people, often parents.
For example, if silly old Nan turns her nose up at mushrooms then she will pass that notion on to grand children who will also turn their noses up to them.
There are ways and means to change kids mind sets and get them more involved in the foods they need to eat.
Silly gimmicks, hiding foods in "mush" by blending them, colouring them, etc etc are just silly.
27-01-2017, 12:41 PM
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I don't disagree my husband has problems with food I've written about before it amazes me any of the kids eat anything, add to that my allergies and it's a recipe for kids to reject.Therefore we do everything we can including making food fun to get them to a point they will eat things we can't. I call it responsible parenting because I can't show them for instance an apple is healthy and delicious if I eat one its ambulance and stay in hospital which kinda puts them off eating them.
We like courgette pasta, it's lighter and tastier than dried variety. I can't see us suddenly deciding to go back to the real thing.
27-01-2017, 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Julie1962
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Therefore we do everything we can including making food fun
A guy on another forum I used to use reported his long standing problems with his 2 daughters who positively refused to eat anything healthy. They were in despair. They had tried all manner of cajoling, dressing food up, making it "fun", hiding it in other foods and so on and still gotten nowhere. They had taken the kids to GPs because their health was being seriously impacted. This had gone on for some years. The parents were absolutely desperate.
On the forum I advised them that making such a big deal of eating times and specific foods was a bad thing to do. The kids mind-sets would be already set and expecting any meal time to be a trauma and unpleasant experience.
I told them to take the kids to the supermarket (they had previously avoided that as it was hassle to manage them). I told them to make a list of vegetables they needed and to give that list to the daughters and present it as a treasure hunt. They had to go find the ingredients and not only that but come back with the best example of each one and there would be prizes (say choc bars) for completing the list.
They did this the next day. The kids absolutely loved exploring the supermarket and hunting out the items on the list. They were engaged with the food, handling the food, picking the food themselves. I told the parents to be sure to refer to each item as THEIRS. i.e. let's peel Sarah's special carrot that SHE found, let's cook Rachel's courgette that SHE found. I also told the parents to engage the kids in the peeling, preparing and cooking of those ingredients that THEY had selected.
They did all this next day, and that same evening the girls sat down and munched their way through a wide range of vegetables and foods that up until this point, they had steadfastly refused to eat.
It's all about mind-set, about not making food eating a big deal, about avoiding any pressure at meal times.
Food is what it is. It shouldn't imo be dressed up, camouflaged, hidden or presented other than as what it inherently is. Kids need to engage with the raw ingredients and thereby have no fear of them.
27-01-2017, 03:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Realist
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I told them to take the kids to the supermarket (they had previously avoided that as it was hassle to manage them). I told them to make a list of vegetables they needed and to give that list to the daughters and present it as a treasure hunt. They had to go find the ingredients and not only that but come back with the best example of each one and there would be prizes (say choc bars) for completing the list.
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