Tell GoGo squeeZ® the smart/fun/sneaky ways you use to get more fruit and yogurt in your DC’s diet - £300 voucher to be won! NOW CLOSED

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GoGo squeeZ® knows how tricky it can be to get your DCs to eat healthily, so they would love to know the fun/smart ways you use to sneak fruit and yogurt into their diet. Maybe your trick is to make a bright-coloured smoothie, packed full of goodness. Do you make fresh sorbet or animal-shaped ice lollies? Or are your cakes stuffed with fruit instead? Whatever your hack, GoGo squeeZ ® can’t wait to read about it!

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Please share your stories and tips on this thread and you will be entered into a prize draw where one winner will win a £300 voucher of their choice (from a list).

Thanks and good luck!

MNHQ

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Chopping up veg into tiny pieces, so they can't tell what it is in the cooking helps, especially in sauces and stews.

And then with fruit, the kids love homemade smoothies and fruit lollies, especially in the summer.

There's no problem with emptying the fruit bowl in this house, it's veg that I struggle to get down them. Carrots are deemed acceptable, as are peas, so they are my go to veg for dc dinners. To try to encourage variety, I find they will try anything if it is on top of a pizza, and are also tempted by me topping pastry with cream cheese or pesto with chopped veg on top. I've managed to get them to try peppers, mushrooms, courgette, sweet corn and red onion in this way. They won't eat any of them if they are directly on their plates, but with a layer of pizza crust or pastry in between they appear to be more palatable!

My kids love yogurt so that's not a problem. We try to have plenty of veg in every meal, and eating them is a prerequisite if you want pudding! (I know people will tell me I shouldn't use food as a reward, but frankly nothing else works).

My children love having a selection of chopped friuit to either dip into a yogurt or put on a skewer and dunk it, They are also happy to try a wide variety of fruits this way too.

I just don’t hide the fruit or veg. I make it yummy and so far both kids are open to trying everything and dislike very little. Favourites are cheese muffins with spinach or courgette in silicone shaped muffin cases. Then banana loaves with reduced sugar and unrefined is a favourite too

Just. Keep. Swimming.

A year ago DS2 wouldn’t eat any fruit other than bananas. He will now eat green apples, strawberries, satsumas and naval oranges. A lot of that is down to starting school and teachers encouraging him to try things at snack time - he was too stubborn to try for me, but wanted to please them.

We make homemade smoothies which my DD loves

I turn the fruit into pudding. Admittedly I've dipped a fair amount in chocolate in the past!
I'm lucky as she loves hummus so we get her to eat quite a lot of veg by dipping it in that!
Am still failing to get tomatoes eaten though so any tips are welcome :)

Let them play Chef !!
They love creating different smoothie flavours & even freezing some as ice lollies.

No problems with getting yoghurts into my kids - they love them! My ds isn't very keen on fruit - I have noticed if it's cut up, peeled, or presented attractively he's mire likely to eat it, so I tend to do a lot of that to make sure it goes in! Faced with grapes and berries etc

Mine don't need yogurt snuck into them - they'd happily eat nothing else! We make ice lollies in summer which I always feel a bit smug about.

From an early age chopped up fruit as a mid morning snack then yogurt plus fruit as pudding. Children eat what you start them off with we all know the five a day rule so let's do it!!

DS (2.5) is an absolute pain to feed -he would literally rather starve than eat something he perceives as "yucky". Bribery has become my friend in recent months.

But what he does like is "runny" (so-called because it's so runny that mummy had to feed it to him the first time he had it because it kept running off the spoon). Pot of chocolate custard and a big pouch of puréed fruit (mixed in to disguise the fruit) and he'll gobble it down.

If only I could disguise veg in the same way......

use empty small yoghurt pots to make little ice creams.mix fruit and yoghurt and then tip into yog pots with loly stick in the middle
make
they love little fruit kebabs with chunks on a stick with marshmellows
dip fruit in yoghurt and freeze for tasty snack.work really well with strawberrys and raspberrys.
even in things like currys.instead of cream we use yoghurt.or they love the cucmber and mint yoghurt dip.
yoghurt loaf cake with raspberry and lemon
add a swirl of yoghurt to soup
make a smoothie
make ice cream by whizzing up together
add fruit to meals like apples with pork stew and apircots to tagines
fruit looks more appetising when chopped and on a platter style meal.
get the down the fruit isle and say you have 1 minute to pick three fruits of the week to try
make yoghurts biscuits.
tandoori marinades
make flatbread with yoghurt
make pizza bases
sauces for pasta
get cookie cutters and cut melon out with them.
yoghurt and fruit muffins

Frozen grapes taste like sweeties!

I must have the only five year old that would choose fruit over sweets, he really isn't all that keen on them, although he does like his cake so I like to try and keep a variety of different fruits in and chop them up in different ways to make them easier to eat and more appealing

My DC hates carrots, courgettes, cauliflower, but when they are in my Lasagne, and hearty soups they go down a treat. I chop and fry in a little olive oil, onions, yellow and red pepper, grate carrots, chop courgettes into my pre-cooked mince, add a can of chopped tomatoes, between two sheets of lasagne, top with a cheese sauce, empty plates, full tums and healthy children. As for my hearty soup once all the vegetables has been boiled in a chicken stock cube, a little garlic and then blended, a perfect lunch. They hate carrots - if only they knew :)

We don't struggle with getting fruit and veg in - we have lots of vegetables that we grow in our garden and on our allotment, and have fruit/yoghurt for pudding every day. It helps if kids know what is real or not!

We make smoothies in this household. And I use natural yogurt in place of milk with some cereals for additional protein.

My kids love a colourful fruit salad and prefer that to whole fruit.

When my DC were little is was as simple as just cutting up a selection of fruit into bite-sized chunks and putting it on a big sharing plate.

Without the 'hassle' of having to peel, bit off pieces, avoid cores and stones they would happily eat lots!

No problems with fruit and yogurt here! DS would eat then ask the time if he could. It's veg that's the real problem!

We make roasted apple crisps! And yoghurt on cereal works

My little boy is only 9 weeks however I have already started thinking about how I would like to introduce food and have already started exploring food options.

it is very important to me that he will be introduced to a variety of foods, with as little processing as possible. In the ideal world this would all be homemade but given that the reality of a child has hit home hard and fast I know that this is going to be unlikely.

With that pouches such as these fruit pouches with 100% fruit will be exactly what I will be looking for, in between the of course the broccoli florets, carrot sticks and apple sauce that I will hopefully be providing