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!

Visit our website and follow us @nicebynatureuk to find out more!"

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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Eating lots of fruit is a breeze with my daughter, we try to have a well stocked fruit bowl and she loves it all.

I am really struggling with my son though. He has severe allergies and refuses to eat all fruit. He does much better with veg though so for now we are focussing on that. I might try the fruit lollies and see how he finds them!

To be honest we have the opposite problem because too much fruit gives DS an upset tummy so we have to limit the amount of fruit he eats each day. So we’ll usually share a portion on breakfast or share half an apple each, etc.

Making sure that there is always nice looking fruit in the house first. Smoothie are definitely a great option too.

Mine love fruit so don’t need too much encouragement, but things that go down very well -
Ice lollies, made of fruit juice
Fruit Salad - fruit all chopped up with yogurt, that’s a favourite pudding. Might put sprinkles on for a special treat.
Berries and skooshy cream
They also love making smoothies but I can very rarely be bothered.

My little girl has yo-yo bears which is made of fruit and is one of your 5 a day, I've always told her that they are sweeties so when we are in a shop and she asks for "sweeties" she goes and picks what flavour yo-yo bear she would like

For autistic DS2, in a pie, crumble or on top of a cheesecake. Or raisins. We have to hide those from him.

Try using different cookie cutters with different fruits. Do this together and eat together. This worked for me. Worth a try plus it’s also a nice activity to do.

Try eating differ t fruits together also cookie cutters great for different shapes. Nice activity too.

Adding fresh fruit to orange juice and freezing in ice lollies

By making fruit smoothies.

Not been a problem to date. Introduced from an early age. Does prefer berries to apples and peaches, but loves watermelon.

I freeze grapes for warm days.
We make milk shakes with frozen berries.
I add Apple and sultanas to curries
I blend any slightly over ripe fruit and we have it with natural yoghurt.

I add veg to my pasta sauces, i make smoothie lollies also

In this weather my toddler loves making and eating lollies with frozen fruit and enjoying fruit smoothies

We have no problems with my eldest, but getting the youngest to eat fruit is a real struggle. Smoothies, or fruit juice have been our only success so far.

Bananas in flapjacks. I use four or five bananas to make a tray of twelve, so there’s at least 1/3 a banana in each flapjack. Use nut butter for protein and it makes the flapjacks a good breakfast item, along with a fruit and veggie smoothie.

I chop up fruit and put it in a big bowl in the fridge. The kids are more inclined to help themselves if it easy to eat.

I suppose we are lucky, both our kids like fruit and eat it daily

Smoothies made into ice lollies in summer, my home made ice cream, chopped strawberries and yoghurt whisked and frozen, little fruit salads with grapes, satsumas, bananas and apple chopped - in small quantities - and I always encourage to try and eat what they can. In winter its a healthy oat topped crumble with rhubarb and my frozen strawberries.

I've always given my DC plenty of fruit & veg so he's never seen it as anything but normal, and thankfully he hasn't kicked up to much of a fuss at the taste. So, now he's older eating fruit & veg is just part of his normal everyday diet.

Add fruit on top of porridge for breakfast. Make it look really pretty so it's more appetising & use different fruit each day & have a game with them by asking them to guess what the fruit will be each day

Homemade avocado chocolate pudding is something that I've been offering up instead of sweets/ desserts. Not the healthiest, but raw coco and maple syrup blended with avo is probably better than a cake laden with sat fats and no contribution to your 5 a day.

He is generally fussy, but has started to be more receptive to trying new things. I find the best thing to do a spin on a fail safe favourite... He loves pizza, so I make a roasted red pepper, garlic, tomato and basil sauce with some spinach wilted in, which we put on wholemeal tortilla wraps and add vegan cheese and lots of herbs. I make them into wraps and put them in the George Foreman. Much better than a straight up frozen pizza. I think the key is to slowly introduce new flavours alongside old favourites to create a positive mental association with the taste. Courgettes in a rich lasagne is going to be remembered a lot more favourably than on a plate alongside liver and onions.

If they help to make a fruit salad then they eat it while they are making it.
They love most fruits anyway- probably because they ate lots of fruit as small babies.

Start from weaning. Then they don't know any different.

I find that now they're getting picky because they know nicer tasting/naughtier food is available. However i just stick to my guns and say no.

Been really lucky as DD loves fruit but a great way to add more is through smoothies or cut up very small / mushed into ice lollies!