We have cunning ways of making them eat.
1 Monitor their drinking habits – children who fill up on fluids between meals won’t feel hungry.
2 Check snacking habits. Offer fruit and veg sticks between meals rather than toast or cake, and they’ll feel hungrier at mealtimes.
3 Keep offering new foods.
4 Build on your children’s favourite foods. For example, if they love milk, add a little banana and whiz it up to make a milkshake.
5 Keep calm. Kids learn quickly that they can disrupt mealtimes by refusing to eat or try new foods.
6 Get them involved cooking the meal.
7 Make the plate as colourful as possible: this also invariably means lots of lovely vegetables.
8 Make it a social occasion with everyone sitting down together as a family.
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