How do you make fruit and veg fun to help your children reach their five a day? Share your ideas with Change4Life for a chance to win a £300 voucher NOW CLOSED

[EllieMumsnet]

We all know that fruit or veg is the healthiest option, but it can sometimes be tricky to get your children eating their 5 a day. With that in mind, Change4Life would like to hear about the ways you make fruit and veg fun so your children happily tuck in to the fruit and veg on offer.

Whether you arrange fruit and veg into faces, create fruit kebabs or have other creative ways to make fruit and veg fun - share your tips and ideas below.

Feel free to share images of your creations if you have any!

All who leave a comment below will be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £300 voucher for the store of their choice (from a list).

Thanks and good luck!

MNHQ

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Cut them in to funny shapes / carrot sticks and dips and veg pizzas x

Our family have always grown their own fruit and veg - and great grandad told my 2 to always eat them in season - I find they tend to do this - running to the allotment and saying - look the apples have arrived.

I love making animal shapes! but also get them involved in the kitchen!

i include the kids in preparation of veg and this encourages them to eat a varied diet

We make smoothies together, the children love choosing the different fruits x

Get them involved in growing veg and them let them help to cook recipes with it.

By keeping a good varied fruit bowl in the kitchen and encouraging them to try new things .

Fresh orange juice with breakfast. Banana over cereal. Cucumber in sandwiches for lunch along with another piece of fruit and two forms of veg with tea. At least.

My daughter Sophie is about to choose Cooking as one of her options at school, whilst half my children love fruit and veg the others don't so we have a bit of a struggle without making it too much of an issue with them. Sophie did't eat fruit or veg but I let her help around the kitchen the last few months due to her wanting to take cookery at school, I advised her about baking/cooking with fruit and veg and she picked her own recipes, we found that because she made Tartlets and Pastries herself she wanted to try them, we went on to the slow cooker and I helped her make a chicken chasseur including the mushroom and onions and then onto things like Beef casseroles and Minted Lamb casseroles, because she makes these she is much more willing to try her vegetables and little by little she is starting to eat certain ones on her sunday dinner and a couple of meals in the week which is great so basically we made it fun for her.

Luckily my Grandad was a farmer so I grew up with an infinity with the land and the produce it grew, so I have tried to replicate that with my son. We both love foraging too, so much so, that he talks to his mates about what we get up to, getting nettled, scratched by thorns etc, and they ask to come along too, all for the sake of a few in season fruits and veggies. Thank you Grandad.

always have fruit laid out and let them pick at supermarket

We've been quite lucky in regards to fruit and veg to our children but the introduction of the blenders has made it easier to add goodness without problems.

that would be my areoplane soup, which had peppers, carrots, leeks and parsnips and I cut out a shape of an areoplane in bread next to it. Also bangers and mash sea adventure: sausage are the boats in gravy sea. The peas are green cannonballs trying to sink the sausage boat and the mash is the land.

We serve vegetables with every meal. We also make a lot of fruit smoothies :)

I do a massive slow cooker batch cook with all the vegetables that are coming close to their best. The gravy disguises the fact it's jam packed full of good stuff and it saves on waste

We have fruit and/or vegetables with every meal, which is something I started when they were young and so now, aged 9 and 11, they eat them. There are some fruit and vegetable they don't like so I tend to introduce the veg by chopping the veg really small and then putting into something like spaghetti bolognese and fruit I put into smoothies.

I tend to hide them in sauces but if I was making it fun then i would encourage them to make the food or make funny faces or pictures with them. Things for dipping is also fun too :)

Add snack fruit and veggies to lunchboxes. Always have fruit available for snacks rather than sweets or crisps and when cooking meals from scratch add extra vegetables to the dish - makes it healthier, more filling and cuts the cost by reducing the amount of meat you use!

Hide them in smoothies and shakes.

I do not know about the fun part, but we always have lots of fruit in the fruit bowl and chopped fruit and veg in the fridge. The Dcs like to snack on these. And we find getting them involved in prepping and cooking has made them more inclined to eat a variety of foods.

I don’t really need to make it fun, mine have all loved fruit and vegetables from weaning :)

Always given them fruit with breakfast, and 2 veg with lunch and dinner

I offer my kids carrot sticks, peppers, cucumber etc with dips as an after school snack which they like. I try to give them the veg I know they like and don't mind buying and cooking different ones for each of them if I know they will actually eat it.

When they were little I would make faces in mashed potato using peas and sweetcorn :)

Quite honestly I have introduced fruit and veg as a 'tasty' part of everyday food from the onset and have never really had a problem with meeting the recommended 5 a day guidelines. I love baking so will use fruit in cakes instead of sugar too - A mixed fruit sponge and creamy custard is a family favourite

Home made soup and pizza!