How to Get Kids to Eat Fruits and Veggies

Here's my watermelon girl. You can see how happy she is that I took all of 15 whole seconds to arrange four slices of watermelon into a pinwheel shape. I dotted a few blackberries around for color (and taste) -- though these foods don't combine well because watermelon should really be eaten alone, at least 10 minutes apart from anything else. 

Veggie Daddy Parent Tip: Want your kids to start eating their raw fruits and veggies? Just as kids love it when we make Mickey Mouse pancakes for them, they also love it when we make fruits and veggies that are fun to eat. I don't exactly have the greatest skills in food art or presentation, but all it takes is a little imagination, and the kids are twice as eager to eat the cute food designs as before. In fact, they'll finish all their food so you can make another design. They eat it up.

The masters of food art directed toward kids are the brilliant team of Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers.

Food For Thought is an amazingly cute book and you can't help but fall in love with all of the ingenious food creations. The book will also give you a million ideas for making your own little food animals, using cauliflower and olives to make black-headed sheep. Your kids won't eat mushrooms and green peppers? They will when you turn them into a car or a plane. This book is essential to your arsenal as a parent who struggles with their kids eating their crudites. Struggle no more. Not only that but this book is a great primer to teach your young'uns their shapes, colors, numbers, letters, and opposites, so if you're trying to get your toddler to learn the alphabet and count to ten, AND eat their veggies, you're killing two birds with one stone with this one!

Fast Food is utterly cute, especially for boys and girls who like Cars, Trucks and Things That Go. My watermelon girl up there cried in the bookstore a few years back because she wanted this book so bad. Bad Veggie Daddy! Bad!

Eat B(right),

Veggie Daddy