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.

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

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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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I tend to either make smoothies or fruit kebabs - something about all the bright colours together on a stick makes it much more enticing!

Fruit lollies and kebabs this time of year

I've been quite lucky with mine and fruit. Veggies are a whole other story but fruit hasn't been a huge problem. For some reason my DD just wouldn't eat grapes even though everyone else loved them but I discovered when I froze them in summer she adored the taste that way.

Eat it myself so that they see it is delicious. We also make funny faces with fruit on their plates and then they are happier to eat it

My children have always loved fruit, but if I wanted them to eat more I make a fresh fruit salad, with apples, banana, orange, strawberries and grapes and a little orange juice. Always goes down well.

Both my DS’s love fruit, but they like different types, so my advice would be to just offer lots of different types until they find ones they like.

A fruit salad is also seen as a luxurious desert in our house something about having it chopped up makes it more palatable.

Or made into a crumble or cake, yum!

Lots of variety in a fruit bowl they can help themselves to - if they come nagging for snacks while I’m cooking they know their options will be a piece of fruit or some carrot sticks.

We’ve also talked about how eating a rainbow of colours is really good for you. DS2 loves this especially.

I haven’t succeeded with fruit or veg! My daughter is 10 with some sensory issues & her diet is depressingly limited. She will occasionally eat apples or grapes but that’s about it. I did go through a phase of making purées with hidden fruit or veg. You can pretty much put them in anything. I have a pasta sauce recipe with veg chopped really small & we all loved that. Think it was Annabel Karmel.

Not the healthiest, but with a bit of ice cream, or chocolate dipped strawbs, raspberries, grapes etc etc

We try to grow our own as much as possible - they love picking it themselves!

Fruit is served after dinner every day, luckily my daughter loves fruit so it isn't too hard. We also pick a lot of fruit from the countryside around us. Apples, pears, plums, damsons, raspberries and blackberries. Picking them fresh always encourages her to eat them.

My wife and I eat a lot of fruit and I give my daughter the choice of what fruit she wants to choose. Her favourite is golden kiwi

We always have a full fruit bowl in our house and it's considered part of all snacks and meals. Banana on cereal for breakfast, Apple or grapes as a snack, chopped strawberries on a yoghurt for pudding, bananas and peanut butter on toast for lunch......there are lots of options!

smoothies ! let them help make it

hide it in food like spag bol.

Our Dcs love fruit and have snacked on it from a young age. They do not like cherries for some strange reason though. We have started growing some fruits including raspberries, strawberries and tomatoes and they love to pick and eat them.

My kids love fruit salad for deserts

I introduced fruit as a treat very early on, with lots of variety and thankfully it has seemed to have work even now my daughter is 8, she enjoys all kinds of fruit and likes it in smoothies aswell as it comes which helps for her to get her 5 a day in too :)

I have always enjoyed eating fruit as part of a balanced diet and it's never really something I've given much though too. In turn it has been a part of my child's life since the weaning days and he has always enjoyed eating it too.

My daughter never ate lots of fruit, but she enjoyed a wide range of vegetables, so I didn't worry about it.

I invested in a nutribullet a few months ago and although my son liked fruit he wasn’t always very good at eating it. Making smoothies has helped in this and now we Iove devising new combinations.

My children go through phases of wanting fruit and then not wanting it.

When they want it they eat it for england! They cant get enough of it.

If they dont want fruit we play games like guess the fruit and i chop up loads of different fruits and we use a sleep mask as a blindfold and see how many we can get right. Its always a winner!!

Another thing that works is a chocolate fondue type thing with loads of fruit to dip in!

We have just always offered fruit from weaning and they remain the first source of a snack if the children want one. We model eating healthily too.

I think having lots of different food around to try is good, also making fruit salads a lot. Also seeing other family around eating fruit encourages them and having it as the desert or snack option in the house.

Eating fruit isn't onerous, is it? DD loves fruit in any shape or form - we have got into the habit of having some after a meal, and as a snack when out and about.

A more unusual fruit that my two DDs really enjoy is a coconut. My DH will often buy one in the weekly shopping, come home and hit it with a hammer, which they love to watch!! Then they drink the coconut milk, shatter the remainder of the coconut and eat the pieces...sounds weird but they seem to love it!