Growing your own can help get kids on the path to healthy eating

Getting kids to eat healthy food can be one of the toughest challenges a parent can come up against, but there is a way to make it fun and educate them at the same time.

While we all know that kids can turn their noses up at green vegetables, they also seem to be magnets to dirt. If you want to get kids to eat their vegetables, then playing on their seemingly constant desire to get mucky may be a path worth exploring.

Educating kids about where various fruit and vegetables come from is a good start, but instead of showing them pictures on your phone or in gardening books, why not take them along to real market garden where vegetables are grown.

Many small farms now allow members of the public to come in and pick their own produce for a small fee. If you tell your kids they can pull out vegetables from the ground and take them home and cook them, they will find this great fun and are more likely to try eating them too.

You can take things up a level by trying to start your own little vegetable patch at home and getting your kids to quite literally ‘muck in’.

This will have a range of benefits. For a start, it’ll give you an extra pair of hands in the garden. It will also encourage them to take responsibility and, when they do get to pick their finished produce, they will get a great sense of achievement. Then they can enjoy using their own homegrown produce in the kitchen by helping you cook a healthy meal.

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