Share your tips on the ways you get fruit into your kids' diet and encourage them to eat more fruit

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Fruit is a key component of a healthy diet, and making sure your kids eat enough of it can be a challenge. It can take countless attempts to convince your child to eat some, and getting to a point where your kids don’t dismiss the idea is no mean feat. With this in mind, Nice by Nature would love to know all the different ways you get fruit into your kids’ diet, and how you encourage them to eat more of it.

Here is what Nice By Nature have to say:
“At Nice By Nature we’ve created a new range of delicious fruit ice lollies! They are made from 100% fruit and absolutely nothing else! In fact our lollies always contain:
- 4 ingredients or less
- No added sugar
- 22-24 calories
- Contributes to your five-a-day

Your kids might call them a snack or even a treat, but you can think of them as a fruit bowl in your freezer!

From talking with mums and dads, we know that it is not always easy getting the food we want into our kids' hands, let alone their tummies! We simply believe that nature has its own store cupboard, a world of wonderful ingredients in the fields, forests and orchards. The good news is that Mother Nature is happy to share!

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Have you come up with a crafty way to get your kids to eat more fruit? Have you managed to persuade your kids to see fruit as a treat? If so, do you have any techniques you could share? Or maybe this isn’t necessary and your children are already very good at eating lots of fruit?

Whatever your ways of getting your kids to eat more fruit, share them on the thread below, and feel free to add a picture or video to accompany your post - we’d love to see these!

Everyone who does will be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £300 voucher of their choice (from a list).

Thanks and good luck
MNHQ

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My youngest would eat berries of any sort all day long, he sees them as sweets but my older son needed more persuasion, so i used to chop up all types of fruit and give him a plate filled with the chopped fruit and a couple of kebab skewers and he used to love making fruit kebabs and would happily eat the lot

my children enjoy fruit we make it fun by making faces/animals out the fruit x

We have a lot of fruit and veg in the house and this year my twins have had their own veg patch which has encouraged them to eat different things like courgettes. I have involved them more with cooking which has helped and incorporated veg in different ways, we have had cauliflower grated into spag bog, courgette in scones and mushrooms which they all hate in soup , which they all loved!

Although my three year old will eat fruit, she can be picky so I make smoothies for her and she also enjoys drinking fruit juice.

DD loves fruit, hates veg. DS the oposite. I'm happy that at least each can get their nutrients one way.
Hiding veg in meals is simpler with DD than hiding fruit. I do try in lollies and some puddings but I get found out more often.

No fruit = no treats. Simples!

Too many kids get away with dictating their terms to their parents

smoothies! ill even sneak green veggies in there too

Making it a part of their routine since they are really small helps a lot as it just becomes the norm.

I make fun snacks like fruit kebabs or apple boats! Always makes my kids eat up their fruit 🍉

Fruits not a problem for us. Apple boats are easier than whole apples for example but we have always given fruit so it's not a big deal for us

I chop up fruit and present it in a bowl for them and put it in packed lunches.
They enjoy it except for bananas. Those I often put into smoothies.

I also add fruit to porridge for breakfast.

Grow your own fruit, or pick your own! Our children will try anything if they have been fully involved in planting, growing and harvesting it. And we love foraging - and visiting the nearby community orchard where we can pick apples, plums, blueberries, rhubarb, gooseberries, raspberries, blackberries, red-, white- and blackcurrants, and more unusual fruit such as loganberries and wineberries. Our most favourite success: our eldest boy's favourite snack, when he was 4, was to pick 2 radishes from the garden, give them a wash, slice into thick chunks, and dip into mayonnaise mixed with a little lemon juice!

We make smoothies, my kids love to help pick their fruit & vegetables to make theirs it helps with getting them both to eat plenty of fruit & vegetables

My children are very sporty and hearing from their thai boxing trainers how important fruit is as part of their diet has convinced them to have plenty of fruit each day! I never struggle to get them to eat fruit now as they've heard it from role models they really respect! So my advice would be if they are into sport, let them hear it from a coach they respect rather than from mum!

have the fruit bowl handy and not chocolate so snacks available are healthy ones.

We just always have eaten fruit.no problems. Making apples fun ... we use the apple slicer that automatically cuts out the core and slices it.
Berries are just wolfed down.
Arranging things into faces also makes it fun.

I slice a bowl of fruit and place it in the middle of the dining table. If it's there, it'll be eaten as the kids pass the table.
Or I will place it in front of them (without drawing attention to it,) whilst they're watching TV or on their tabs. I find they usually start eating it.

I am the mother of twins, DD and DS - who could not be more opposite when it comes to food preference. DS is a trooper who happily eats mostly anything put in front of him (I pray this never changes) DD however will not eat fruit if she is offered it.

I get around this using three methods:

Homemade fruit smoothies - she will guzzle them down if I let her, usually a mixture of berries, banana, apple and pear with a bit of whole milk to make it like a milkshake. If I'm adding bitter fruits like Kiwi I'll drizzle a little honey in to sweeten the deal. Very cheap to make and then I can freeze any leftover into homemade ice-lollies.

Fruity couscous, for some reason she accepts the bits of fruit in her couscous (so long as I'm willing to spoon feed it to her as she does enjoy grabbing handfuls and sprinkling them on the floor around her high chair) in this I can also hide chickpeas and kidney beans and she will eat them up. Mainly add cranberries, apricot and sultanas etc.

I have also found that taking her to my Mum's allotment has been helping, my Mum will grow plums, variety of berries, apples, pears etc. and when we explained to her that they were grown especially for her by her Gran and tell her how my Mum does this, she is a bit more trusting of the end product. I'm looking forward to getting her and her brother involved in growing some food for themselves when they're a bit older (and use that chance to learn a bit myself ).

Apparently this is how my Mum convinced me to eat veggies and fruit when I was a toddler too.

We often pick own own summer fruits (strawberries, raspberries etc) and this often leads to a taste tasting in the field before we get home :)

My kids love fruit. It has never been a problem to get them to eat it. It has been part of their daily diet since they were babies. They even grow their own in the garden and love to pick apples and berries when they are ready. If you have a bit of garden, encourage them to grow their own. They'll love it when they can taste their own strawberries fresh from the plant.

We all love fruit so it is pretty easy! We make fruit salads and smoothies quite regularly and mix up the fruits that we use

My husband has decided chips are definitely one of his five a day and our children take after him on the distrust of vegetables front.

Luckily two out of the three of them love fruit and enjoy quite a good variety. I do have one who will only eat apples or drink fruit juice though but I make ice lollies and smoothies from berries and he'll give them a go from time to time. A fruit salad for him involves carrots! Conversation some years ago went something like this: Me to fruit eating children: "What would you like in your fruit salad?" (Fruit eating children give suggestions.) Non- fruit eating child: "I want fruit salad too!" Me: "But your fruit salad will just be an apple chopped up." Non-fruit eating child "No- I want carrot." Me: Carrot? In a fruit salad?" Non- fruit eating child: "Yes. And lettuce." And so an apple, carrot and lettuce fruit salad was made. And still gets made today. He's 15.

Given her a choice has always worked for us. Have plenty of fruit and veg in the house and have it chopped up so its perfect for snacking :)

Never had a problem getting mine to eat fruit, but sadly, my problem was affording it! Like many other children, they love blueberries, strawberries, peaches etc which are often more expensive (And don't taste that great out of season IMHO) Apples from the tree in granny's garden don't have quite the same appeal, but I cut them up and make patterns on the plate. That helps