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Creative Mom Cuts the Cost, Not the Fun

by Mary Hunt

When our boys were small, a clever baby sitter taught me a good lesson: Give something ordinary a new name, and kids will eat it up! She would cut up anything she could find in the refrigerator, call it "bits and pieces" and allow the boys to eat using toothpicks instead of forks. That was a huge treat, and they would eat anything she put on their plates. Recently a clever mom sent in her own renaming trick.

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Posted by: Sonya
Comment: #1
Wed Jun 24, 2009 10:14 AM

Along the same lines as your babysitter, when our boys were younger and wouldn't eat things mixed together, including salad, we just created a salad plate with 3 or 4 of items such as sliced tomatoes (or whole little ones), red peppers, avocado, cabbage, spinach leaves, lettuce leaves, apples, papaya, broccoli, cauliflower, etc. The boys enjoyed deciding what to put on the plate and preparing it. I didn't serve it with dressing so that they could enjoy the flavors of the food. This was in addition to the cooked veggies that were also served.

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