8 Secrets to Raising Vegetable Eaters

Use our tried-and-true tips for getting kids not only to eat vegetables, but also enjoy them.

Honey-Roasted Root Vegetables
Article: Maryann Tomovich Jacobsen, M.S., R.D., Becky Luigart-Stayner; Leigh Ann Ross
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5. Offer Options

According to a report by Brian Wansink and David R. Just (conductors of research at the Cornell Center for Behavioral Economics in Child Nutrition Programs), junior-high-school students are 20% more likely to eat vegetables when they can choose between two items. So instead of plopping down the veggie and insisting your tween finish it, give them healthy choices. But the decision might not be so hard if one of the options is Honey-Roasted Root Vegetables, another great example of maximizing the sweetness in vegetables.

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