How can I encourage Ds to eat more fruit and veg ??

[CrackerOfNuts]

Salad type stuff in particular. He will eat veg with a roast dinner etc, but if we have something with salad, he will only eat the cucumber.

In the warmer weather I tend to do alot more salads instead or roast dinners, and so Ds then misses out on veg.

Both dd's are quite good and will eat lettuce, peppers, tomatoes etc, but Ds leaves the lot.

Also with fruit, he will only eat bananas, grapes and stawberries. He has had melon and said he liked it, but next time I offered it, he said he hated it.

Why don't you steam a bit of brocolli/cauliflower/carrot, whatever veg he does eat, and then let him eat it as a cold salady type thing. With his fingers. Or you can all eat a little bit of it so he does not feel like the odd one out.

I knnow very few small children who will eat salad stuff. My 3yr old eats tomato, and cucumber, but I think that's because he once had lunch with a friend of his who ate them, so he copied. Ate it ever since, and usually with some comment about 'so-and-so eats this too..."

Arrange to meet friends for light lunches and picnics over the summer, those who you know eat well, and I bet if you just ignore him and let him get on with what is on his plate, he'd nibble at a couple of quite unexpected things.

how old is your ds? could try making a face with salad items lettuce for hair, tomato for nose and peppers for a big smiley mouth or something like that.