This is an excerpt from Cooking Light, my favorite magazine.
How to encourage kids to eat their peas:
Do a greens tasting at a farmers' market, and try a different green every week. Or give kids a veggie budget at the grocery store, and let them loose in the vegetable aisle. Task them with choosing one red, one green, and one orange or yellow vegetable for the side dish or salad. With really young kids, let them pick between two items -- this green food or that green food.
Why teaching kids to cook is important:
Kids under five eat almost anything and then, overnight, they suddenly hate everything. Food becomes a power play at the table, and the parent may end up cooking a limited menu of foods the children will eat. That's not good for anyone. Teach them cooking, where the children are part of the creative process of shopping, prepping, and cooking. If they cook a food, they are more likely to eat it. That may be messier and take more time, but it's worth it.
(Cooking Light, March 2008, p. 56)
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