Eating fruit and veg

[mummytobabygirl17]

Hi everyone
My DD will be 3 in November. She muses to be really good and eating different fruits and veggies with meals or as snacks but now has gone off of them any tips to help. I make her frozen fruit purée Ice lollies as she was suffering with her back teeth coming through and make a pasta sauce with different veg

Thanks

Is there anything she particularly likes that you can mix them with? Cheesy sauce? Mash carrots and mix it with mashed potatoes?

Take her shopping and let her choose out the fruit and veg. One success I've had is with broccoli. My son wouldn't touch it with a barge pole until I got him to pick the one he wanted at the supermarket. Then we came home and he washed it and broke it into pieces and popped it into a saucepan. He made a lot of mess and water went everywhere, but he also had great fun and has eaten broccoli ever since.
I also found that when they cooked it they'd try something more adventurous. Even quite small children can help in some way.
Use exciting names for foods e.g. we call chicken in sauce 'sticky chicken' or soup 'surprise soup' or green beans 'squeaky beans' (can you hear them?) and ham up the name ...
My children are more likely to eat a food that’s colourful, cut into fun shapes or with a dip. They eat things that they wouldn’t normally eat if it’s on a skewer! We also had a cheese fondue at New Year and they were dipping things that they’d normally turn their nose up at.
We used to pretend we're dinosaurs eating trees when we eat broccoli – adds a bit of fun to the meal! Or try arranging vegetables into silly faces, writing her name in blueberries or peas etc...
We've explained about vitamins and minerals and how they help your body grow and stay healthy. My DD will now eat mushrooms because she is desperate to be a big girl. And DS will flex his muscles when he's eaten a green bean!
Offer condiments. Sometimes, all your my DC needed to eat a certain food was a little bit of dressing or for example, sweet potatoes with some ketchup. Don’t limit the use of condiments; eventually, she might opt for the items without them.
If you know another child who’s an adventurous eater, invite them round for tea – watching them eat different food might just encourage your dd to join in. If you can’t at the current time, get teddy to join in – one for teddy – one for her.

We did a food experiment over suMet. We bought lots of different foods, then tried them one at a time and wrote down what they smelled like, looked like, felt like and then did a taste test of them and wrote down a tick or cross to show if we liked them or not.

Helped my daughter try a few new foods. It was literally only tiny tastes and then we made meals with the things we liked.