How can a Child be Taught to Eat Healthily?
I recently experimented: I prepared cottage cheese balls on a chocolate icing stick, stored them on top of a purchased lollipop, and gave my nine-year-old granddaughter a choice – a lollipop or cottage cheese balls. Preferred lollipop. I changed the terms: two yoghurt balls instead of one chupa – the result is the same. And only one in five could forget the chemical work of cooking!
My granddaughter teased me a bit, decided to bargain – for 2-3 years, she was actively involved in making natural homemade sweets, and she still likes it. Of course, it is impossible to eliminate the use of goodies from the store, but reducing their presence on the children’s menu is quite realistic.
It all started with the genome and carrots; every child likes these good fairy tale animals and tries to imitate them. Almost all children do not eat cooked carrots, and my granddaughter was no exception. In one fall, I boiled about ten carrots. My granddaughter looked at me anxiously – the way they said it, would they really force me to eat this ankle. Still, I suggested going for a walk in the park and at the same time treating the forest wise people living under the old days. We took the whole carrot, put it in a kids bucket, and went to the park. On the way, I told him that they had brought this kind of behavior to the dwarfs living underground for a long time in Germany, and the next day they received a gift from them – a small bar of gold.
As it turned out, our forest sages did not stay in debt. We found hazelnuts, rosehip berries, hawthorn, and mountain ash in a bucket the next day. After this incident, the granddaughter agreed to use boiled carrot pieces soaked in fruit jelly – I liked it.
What we haven’t cooked since! And it is advisable to involve children in this process: after all, self-made cooking seems incredibly tasty. The Chupa-chupas were replaced with different balls, even images of arbitrary sizes – they poured the cooked workpiece into a baking sheet, somehow simply pouring it into the spoon. Ingredients for this type of dessert: 200 grams of sugar, 6-7 tablespoons of water, one teaspoon of lemon juice.
During cooking, a culinary fantasy is awakened: some parts of sugar are substituted with honey, water with various syrups, powdered nuts, pieces of dried apricots, raisins, marshmallows were added while pouring. I don’t give a detailed cooking technique – there are many recipes on the internet. The main thing is not to forget to grease the mold you poured into the mixture to avoid getting stuck.
In addition to these types of sucking sweets, they often make so-called cake pops – a biscuit on a stick. I mixed a biscuit baked, crushed, jam, nuts, light crumbs, marshmallows. If the jam is apple, adding cinnamon and some cloves is better. This process can be handed over to the children – they will happily fill this kind of sweet, sometimes it will fold in their mouths. Balls were then made, squares or toothpicks were placed between them – and in the refrigerator. I cooked chocolate icing while strengthening the balls. Then we put the biscuit balls in the icing and again in the fridge.
Yet one such delicacy was prepared: rose petals, mint leaves, targaon stalks brought from the garden and dipped in vegetable oil-fried vats. You can take everything that comes in hand; somehow, you have taken white acacia flowers.
Often prepared jelly, thick jelly, cream “bird’s milk,” homemade sweet, candied fruit. Together with her granddaughter, we produce healthy foods such as lemon lettuce, peas, various cultivated and wild herbs (dill, parsley, thyme, lemon balm, dandelion leaves, shepherd’s bag, and much more) collect Autumn and spring let’s dig. Then we prepare the salad.
I dried the Jerusalem artichoke with a thin plate. It appears to be a useful product – an alternative to chips and chewing gum.
The key to what we have prepared and not described in these five years is to involve the child in the process. And then surely you can save him from primary gastritis, colitis, and other gastrointestinal diseases.