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PSHE: 2a 
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You will need:
A display board. For details of materials
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Explain to the children that our tastes develop as we get older
and experience a wider range of foods. When we were babies we only
liked milk but have learned to like other foods as we developed.
Ask the children to list some names of foods that they dislike so
much that they won't eat them. Ask them to estimate how long it
has been since they last tried these foods.
Ask the children to list some of the ways that parents persuade
their children to eat fruit and vegetables.
Ask small groups of children to look at the list of tips for parents
on activity worksheet 11 and decide which are most likely to be
effective;
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Tips for parents wanting their children
to eat more fruit and veg
- Make sure the food is really delicious
and attractive to look at.
- Fruit and vegetables can be cut
into interesting shapes.
- Put the food on serving dishes on
a table and let the children help themselves to whatever
they like without critism, urging or comments about what’s
chosen.
- Eat together as a family as much
as possible.
- Set a good example by eating lots
of fruit and vegetables yourself.
- Serve small portions of different
fruits and vegetables from an early age.
- Encourage toddlers (from a year
old or more) to nibble on carrot sticks and pieces of apple
- Give children a wide variety of
different types of vegetables; if you offer them 10 types
they'll probably only like 5 so if you offer them 50 they
might like 25.
- Put raw vegetables, salad and dips
in packed lunches.
- Offer lots of crunchy raw vegetables,
salads and roasted, mixed vegetables instead of always having
boiled vegetables.
- Turn the vegetables into soups and
don't always tell them what they're eating.
- Add vegetables to foods like casseroles,
pizza, baked potatoes and sandwiches.
- Serve tasty, juicy fruits such as
fresh pineapple or melon, raspberries, strawberries, cherries
and nectarines instead of always apples and bananas.
- Take the children shopping for fruit
and vegetables and let them help with the choosing, preparation
and cooking.
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