No vegetables.....

[Lagoonablue]

DS simply refuses to eat any fruit or veg. Well he eats satsumas but that is it.

I have tried and tried....hiding it in sauces which is ok to a point but he is getting wise to this. I make veg look like funny faces on is plate, try baked, mashed, mixed, fresh, frozen, blended.....to no avail.

He just flatly refuses. He is 4. Desperate for ideas.

I have a four year old exactly the same. He's just started reception this week and hasn't touched one school dinner. I've relented and made him a packed lunch today.

Will wait with you for replies.

You have my sympathy. My DS was the same, he would eat sweetcorn, and drink apple juice but that was it. He started noticing hidden veggies at a very young age, when he was 2. He is 11 now and has not eaten a green veggie since he was about 2. But he has improved slowly. I just kept offering and occasionally he announces he will now eat something different, he seems to prefer to try out stuff at school or friends houses, not at home. He now eats carrots, sweetcorn, apple, pear, sweetcorn, grapes, tomato sauce ( and will let me whizz red peppers into this), mangoes, onions, smoothies of all descriptions and, just recently raspberries. The house we are renting has lots of raspberry canes hidden amongst the nettles and thistles that make up the back "garden". And so he tried them this summer and now really likes them.

Oh, and bananas!

*Lagoon" - when you hide veg in sauces how do you do it?

I do things like add grated courgette to a bolognese sauce, or mash carrot and potato together to a puree to make "orange mash". If you make the veg pieces small enough so they aren't identfiable as veg that might help.

Have you tried him with soup? You don't need to say it's veg soup - just soup.

And smoothies with lots of honey added to make them sweet are a great way to get kids to eat fruit.

Having said that, all I ate until I was 9 or 10 was ham and mashed potato, marmite on toast and bacon sandwiches, and I'm not dead yet!
Peer pressure at school dinners fixed me.

I meant to add - try making courgette cake, carrot cake etc.

I think you should embrace his express lifestyle choice to be a Carnivore and respect his wishes. :)

DS is 2.4 and identical to this. No unhidden fruit or vegetables pass his lips. It's a struggle but he gets pureed fruit in weetabix, dried fruit bars, soup and mashed sweet potatoes.

Thanks. He has a bit of puréed carrot in bolognese and tinned toms in that too. Has the odd bit of brocolli, mash potato, sometimes a baby corn and will eat satsumas. That's it.

Actually he is fussy full stop, veg just being one area odd fussiness.

Soup sounds like a good idea. Will try. Thanks all.

How about vegetable crisps, vegetable burgers, hidden vegetable pasta sauce sandwiched between 2 wraps as a quesadilla or as a dip for breadsticks, dried fruit,fruit juice, smoothies, frozen bananas, frozen grapes, sweet potato chips/wedges

Ashamed to say that when mine did this I relied on Ella's kitchen pouches for a while just to get it in him...

Now make my own pouches as have a kit

But he has started eating better on his own at the threat of no more thomas to watch till he eats them so might pack that away soon

no desert till you've eaten your dinner. no fuss, no shouting, but it just gets left on the table. they can then decide if they are hungry or not.

Does he watch tv at all? There was an article somewhere (can't remember where though!) which said children will pick at food subconscious. So if he's watching tv, stick a bowl of grapes/chopped apple/carrot sticks/cucumber sticks in front of them, and they will disappear. Haven't tried it, so don't know if it will actually work.