A few days ago our colleagues from Vitonica published a very interesting entry on the topic they discussed, which is precisely what I want to talk about here today.
One of the mistakes that parents make the most, when it comes to food, is that of not giving our children those foods that we don't like. Actually it is something logical, because normally nobody buys something in a supermarket that he does not like, so if a food is not at home, it will hardly ever reach the plate of our children.
However, by doing this, the only thing we get is to limit the nutritional offer, limit the diet and sometimes even make it lack some highly recommended foods.
The clearest example is that of fish, that few adults eat because meat is richer (sometimes it is not that you do not like it, but that you choose meat for being tastier) or because they do not like it directly. As well, when parents don't like fish, the chances of a child eating fish are very slim. The consequence then is that our son, who has not eaten just fish that when he grows up, by simple ignorance, says that "the fish does not like it", which is what we say many of some foods that no longer directly enter our eyes:
-I do not like.
-But have you tried it?
-No, but I don't like it.
Changing shopping habits
I am especially grateful to those mothers I see in the nursing office who say “no, my son the fruit or the test”. I tell you that, man, that at least one daily piece would be advisable, that you look for one that you like (if they can be more, better, but of course, if you take nothing, we would settle for one) and the mothers turn to say to his children: “do you see what he says? You have to eat more fruit. ”
Then I ask them if they eat, or directly if they buy fruit. As well, many tell me that at home they don't eat just fruit, so the strange thing would be for the child to eat a daily piece of fruit, and many that do not, that they almost never buy it.
Then I have a bream face, because I wonder why he told his son that he has to eat fruit if they neither eat it, nor buy it many times.
Getting used to the children's palate
As we have commented on other occasions, The most common when a baby or child eats something unknown is to pout and not want more. It happens many times, most. However, if a food is offered to a child from time to time, the palate ends up getting used to those flavors and what was very bad on the first day is not so bad afterwards (some things yes, of course, we all have some food that neither for those).
It is said that at least 10 exposures to a food (that you take at least ten times) are necessary to decide whether or not the child likes something. So when we give them something new we must be patient and see how they react next time. In the same way, it could be useful to apply the story and try those things that we do not eat because in our day we did not try them enough or because we have a habit for you to know why. Perhaps this way we get a richer and more varied diet and, as a side effect, let's get our children to also have a diet with more food available.
