Heres my fridge yesterday. Its half way through the week and its still preety chocca block full of fruit, veg and orange juice (and dh beer!) . We adore our fruit and veg in this house , everyone including the children, both children where baby lead weaned although my second son more so than my first, so veg was quite a big part of their diet right from a young age. Don't get me wrong my eldest son went on a veg refusal diet aged 2, after much help from some internet sites , i discovered ways of hiding vegatables and after just a 3 week strike he was back to eating them. Everyone knows supplementing your diet with vitamins is preety meaningless as the tablets absorb so quickly and are prosessed so, they are no where near as efficiant as a good balenced diet, when it comes to getting our vitamin requirements. I know children who's first taste of weaning is chips (mercifully without salt), yet ironically the parents worry about the child choking on vegatables, although don't worry about the saturated fats. The children will not and refuse to eat vegatables, but is it any wonder when the parents do not either? How is it even possible for a child to have a good balenced diet if the parents do not, if the parents are not willing to change, is it not unlikey that the children will? With the state of childhood obesity , its time parents started leading by example and stopped blaming the children for their own short comings. Children learn from example, simple as that.
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