So.... How many toddlers will eat salad?

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Just wondered really, in this hot weather I would love to be able to eat salad as a family. But dd1 & dd2 both not keen at 2 and 3 years.

Do your toddlers eat salad- if so what?

DS is 3.5 and loves salad now, he didn't like lettuce at first but loves it now and will ask for a bowl of lettuce and carrot as a snack (but turn down chocolate, odd child!)

Mine will eat all salad including raw spanish onion but DT2 is not overly keen on 'wet' stuff like mayo, coleslaw or pot salad. He won't eat the protien bit either but that's a whole 'nother issue.

My children do. They are 5 and 3. They sometimes eat a bit of lettuce but they love cucumber, pepper, carrot, sweet corn, they don't like tomatoes though.

Nope. Ignores it all. And fruit. And most veg. And most meat.

DS likes cucumber and tomato and occasionally avocado. He also ate one of his home-grown radishes the other day.

I have thrown down the gauntlet today though as his lunchbox sandwich is beef, cheese, mayo and spinach/rocket/watercress salad. I suspect lots of green bits will come home, and no meat or cheese.

I might try Nicoise sometime though - I reckon that would be oomphy enough to be accepted.

SparePants - I'm not often, but I am about your wonderful DS! I wish I could have successfully breastfed my two as I eat everything... and I'll bet it would have rubbed off a bit.

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no

Big two are great with salad now and eat pretty much anything. They are a bit older though (nearly 9 and 7). Dc3 still refuses to eat "leaves" apart from pea shoots.

When they were smaller salad was more veg sticks really - cucumber, pepper, carrot plus sweetcorn and cherry tomatoes on a good day.

I always serve salad in a big bowl with nice homemade dressing - they like both the dressing and the ceremony of helping themselves to it I think.