Frozen Vegetables could be Better.
For some reason it is drummed into us buy fresh vegetables.
In this day and age most moms are working moms, so coming home from work and having to prepare fresh vegetable is tiring and time consuming.
With the kids clamouring for their dinner, mom is inclined to forget about healthy and nutritous meals and serve up the old favourites like chips, burgers, fish fingers etc. All the easy options that we must admit the kids love.
Ok thats fine, but there’s no need to knock vegetables off the menu. Frozen vegetables are just as nutrit0us as fresh vegetables and as they are frozen within hours of being picked they retain all their nutrition.
It is just as easy to cook a few frozen vegetables as it is cook burgers or fish fingers.
If they insist on chips go for oven chips as they contain less fat. if they have an aversion to greens try them with frozen corn, boiled or steamed. Try frozen baby carrots, kids are more likely to go for these rather than the chopped variety.
Cook a small amount of mixed frozen vegetables,they can be cooked together, then place just one sprout, one small floret of cauliflower, and a small piece of brocoli on each plate, see if you can tempt the children to try them.
Quite often it is the amount that might put a child off so just one of each might do the trick and slowly but surely you can increase the amount.
Although it is well over 60 years ago I was one of those kids that wouldn’t touch greens, my main meals consisted of meat, potato’s and gravy when I would eat it. The only thing I would eat happily and for every meal was kelloggs corn flakes.
Needless to say I never suffered from any childish ailment even though my brothers and sisters caught everything. I’m not saying to feed them cornflakes every meal, although I stayed healthy eating them. Oh bye the way, I love any greens and veg now, as you get older your tastes change.