25 vegetable snack ideas for fussy eaters

Putting vegetables and fussy eating together is often not what first springs to mind. However, picky eaters can and do eat veggies, and the more often we serve them the more a child has the opportunity to eat them.

If we have a child that does not eat veggies yet, serving them regularly is an important part of learning to accept them. The more we see them, the more comfortable we become.

If you’ve been offering veggies for ages and always get a negative response, then:

1. Revising the approach so that there is not open hostility is step 1 (this is not about eating vegetables, it’s about being positive about them!)

2. Serving veggies regularly is step one in building an eventual acceptance of them.

3. Learning to eat veggies may be a long-term project. Think about the five years we read to a child without them reading one word back to us.

There are many ways we can serve veggies to make them rock. Again, for a non-veggie eater, it may not initially be about the eating, but about acceptance. From there it is about interaction — which over time builds comfort, which leads to eating.

*Please be mindful about age and stage. Some of the recommendations are not suitable for young children.