14 mo old won't eat veggies

Just hoping you get a response soon - how frustrating! If nothing else, I guess you'll have to start "hiding" them in foods, if you can so she's at least taking them in, yet it's maddening that she has so suddenly decided this! We want our children to LIKE veggies!!! How do you reason w/ a 14 mo old????

My baby does that sometimes too. She is 14 months. I'll put just a pinch of cinnamon sugar on them and she then eats them up. I don't put enough on to make a huge difference sugar wise. Good luck.

Try serving veggies first, before any other items or drinks. Another one that I have done is to shred carrots and tell my daughter that it was cheese. - it worked too. Although generally my daughter eats well. The biggest for mine is dipping. She will eat almost anything dipped in ranch dressing. Good luck.

Thanks for the advice. Yes we serve veggies first. Well, if she doesn't actually eat them, are they still technically served? I guess so. And I was shocked to discover that she won't eat ranch dressing or melted cheese on veggies. If tried hiding peas too, but she'll swallow the pasta and spit out the pea! I'll try the cinnamon-sugar. Soon this child is going to be on a diet of milk, fruit, and mac&cheese.

When my now 10 yo dd was a toddler, I read in a magazine not to be too concerned if the child would not eat veggies. If they eat fruit, give them a variety of that since you will find most of the same nutrients in fruit that are in veggies. One thing she did like at that age was Vegetable soup or toddler Beef stew. She would eat all of the veggies in those.

Megan spits out any veggies she finds "lingering" in her mac and cheese, or whatever else I try to hide it in! She does do shredded or "matchstick" carrots better than anything, and she's definitely more prone to eating whatever I'm eating (she won't eat the veggies on her plate, but she'll eat them off of mine) I try not to make a big deal out of it. My SIL brillantly purees veggies into her marinara sauce, she said her kiddos were none the wiser also. She served about anything with ketchup, which worked too. Now, with her 4 year old, she's taken to putting stickers of spiderman and other favorites on cans/boxes of food (veggies, soups, etc) and it also works. So either her kids really aren't that picky or they are extremely gullable!

Great post. My son is five and we've been very successful in coaching him to eat well. I'm so glad that you're on top of this rather than ignoring it while a really unfortunate pattern develops.The dip remedy is a classic, I bet that will work. Also try cooking together. I started this with my son when he was just one. We made soups, quiches, salads, all kinds of dishes that we very healthful, colorful and tasty. Because he'd made them he was happy to eat them. The food processor is also really helpful. We did tons of cold soups (cucumber and gazpacho) using the processor or blender over the summer and he loved that because he got to use a machine.Our pediatrician was adamant about avoiding snacks and any form of fruit other than whole fresh. No fruit juice and certainly no fruit bits, roll ups or gooshers - those are candies made with enormous amounts of fructose! Your kids are way better off having actual candy and cookies from time to time and only fresh whole fruit rather than 'feel-good candy'! : )Avoiding snacks was really important because children just aren't hungry enough at mealtime if they much on cheerios or pretzels all day. Also they tend to get stuck on starchy foods and will gravitate to it during mealtimes and forget about veg and protein! You don't want your child to be overly hungry so a bag of celery sticks or carrots between lunch and dinner is fine, but habitual snacking can trip you up!Oh and I'm not sure where you live but even on the East Coast our farms are still offering some pick-your-own opportunities. My son still loves this and has literally begged to drive to the farm so that he can pick some green beans for dinner! Seeing the food grow and making it into an adventure may help get her interested again.Soon I hope you'll hear her say "Thank you, thank you Mom-I-Am!"