Telling young children, 'If you don't eat your greens, you can't have any pudding,' is not considered a desirable approach to getting them to eat fruit and vegetables.
'Bribing a child is not a good way to encourage them to eat healthily,' says Lucy Thomas, founder of the Taste for Life programme, supported by Organix. 'If a child becomes anxious and the experience is a negative one, their dislike for the food will increase.'
Every practitioner and parent will have experienced young children's resistance - and sometimes downright hostility - to fruit and vegetables with which they are unfamiliar. The Taste for Life programme aims to address this, removing the pressure for children to eat the food and instead encouraging them to explore the textures, colours, shapes and sensory nature of fresh produce.
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