It is crucial to let a child learn how he or she should eat healthy and that usually means staying away from McDonalds, KFC or Burger King.

These days, fast food is a big part of modern life. It might seem to be a losing battle as fast food joints come up with all sorts of gimmicks and marketing ploys to attract our kid’s attention. Even baby Clarisse, now twenty months old, recognises the golden arches and associate McDonalds as a fun place. She’d make a fuss while pointing her finger whenever we drive by a McDonald outlet. If you let your child the alternative between healthy food and junk food, you usually will not like the answer. As parents we have to stick to guns and hopefully our kids adopt a healthy eating lifestyle.

Although it is not possible to make a child to like all healthy foods, there are many methods to make your child taste them and hopefully like some of them. Try to be as creative as you can.

• Sneak the healthy food in. Even though it would be good if your kid realised the importance of fruits and vegetables, this isn’t always workable. If you can not make them to consume good food willingly, there are methods to sneak them in, such as making muffins out of pears or bananas, or pizza with spinach on it.
• Give fruits and vegetables a funny names. For example you can refer cauliflower as “little flower”, make your child having more fun to eat. You can use many different funny names on fruits and vegetables. In this way, most kids choose to eat
  foods that sound amusing.
• Cook foods with better taste. Ranch dressing is great for broccoli, while peanut butter is a great topping for celery. There are various combinations for vegetables that can get them taste better. Try let your child pick a topping for a vegetable, even if it’s something you would not usually like yourself.
• Make the vegetable look nice with some decoration. Just as much as calling them names help kids eat healthy foods, making them look funny also helps. You can do this by creating humorous designs on the plate, or marking them up to look like people. Although some parents do not like their kids playing with their food, but sometimes it work to get them to eat healthier.

There are few methods to make your kids eat more healthy, but the key to effectiveness is for it to be fun so that they will enjoy it. This definately is not an easy task, I grant you, because kids usually do not like healthy food but it can be done with a bit of creativity. Good luck!