Yes, Your Baby Can Learn To Love Veggies!

Your baby will love veggies right from their first experience of solids with these simple tips!

Teaching your children to love veggies isn’t always easy. We know, we’re stating the obvious but it’s just so true! For starters, it can be difficult to pack enough veg into on-the-go meals. Then there’s the challenge of dealing with fussy eaters! As much as we hate to admit it, pumpkin and potato are boring for anyone after a while. But what if there was a way to help your baby love veggies from the start and avoid tantrums later on?

To take the stress out of helping your bub learn to enjoy their five a day, and giving them the best foundation for a healthy life, we’ve put together some handy hints that you’ll want to know before you take the exciting step of starting them on solids.

Avoid Hidden Nasties

Who hasn’t said they were committed to making their own baby purees at home only to find themselves on a late-night run to the supermarket? No one has enough hours in the day for all that blending! It might be tempting to go for the first available option you see on the shelves, and reaching for a baby food pouch seems like the convenient choice, but it’s important to know that some pre-made baby food products are full of hidden nasties and miss the opportunity to teach important skills!

By choosing a quality option like Little Bellies Organic Baby Bowls, in particular their Veggie & Jumble bowls, you can be reassured that you are avoiding hidden fruit sugars and making veg-forward foods a priority!

Start Them Early

Lots of purees hide veggies amongst fruit and other ingredients, but this is a guaranteed way to create a super picky eater! By hiding veggies in fruit, we are teaching babies to have a preference for sweet-tasting foods later on – having to think of creative ways to disguise veg from your toddler isn’t a fun time!

“Differing flavours in early days prepare babies for ongoing acceptance of flavour variety. Vegetables have earthy and savoury flavours to learn about. Fruits mixed in with vegetables can dilute this important flavour experience,” Simone Emery, a childhood nutrition specialist, said.

“A 100% vegetable bowl gives babies a rich, flavour experience.”

Babies’ palates are like clean slates, so if they’re only exposed to sugary purees from early on, it can make introducing veggies trickier than usual. So why not get started early? Little Bellies Organic Baby Bowls allow babies to start to differentiate between sweet and savoury and get used to the flavour of various vegetables.

Make It Fun

Starting solids should be an exciting experience – just think of all the cute videos you’re going to have as you watch your little one try a range of veg for the first time! That being said, some parents understandably get caught up in the stress of it all, especially if their baby just doesn’t seem interested.

Little Bellies Organic Baby Bowls encourage interactive spoon-feeding which is a great way to not only help your bub master their fine motor skills, but also make exploring vegetables fun. The mix of organic veg in each of the bowls create combinations that are deliciously healthy and packed with goodness. The see-through bowl packaging is one of our favourite parts, ensuring positive food associations and encourages mindful eating practices and behaviours right from the beginning.

Veggies are such an important part of anyone’s diet, but particularly for babies who are going through a huge period of growth and development so the sooner you get your little one enjoying them with quality options like Little Bellies Organic Baby Bowls, the better. If you manage to avoid a future fussy toddler in the process, what a bonus!

Have you got a top tip for helping your little one to love veggies? Share it in the comments!

The team at Mouths of Mums is working with Little Bellies to bring you this article. Little Bellies Organic Baby Bowls are for interactive spoon-feeding. Their Veggie & Jumble bowls have no hidden fruit sugars to make veg-forward foods a priority, they are also recyclable and reusable. Check out the full Little Bellies Organic Baby Bowls range here.

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26 Comments

- - meedee said
  - 20 May 2024
    12:47 pm
Try them with lots of different veggies. Kids will eat them if you dont go offereing other things instead

- - BellaB said
  - 31 Aug 2021
    6:32 pm
My kids weren’t wild about veggies when they were tiny, but grew into it as toddlers.

- - mom418889 said
  - 25 Aug 2021
    7:41 pm
On the way to start solids

- - Mrs.twinmama said
  - 22 Aug 2021
    1:20 pm
My kids are ata picky age. I love making them pancakes with veg inside and they Love it.

- - shanika said
  - 16 Aug 2021
    11:57 am
This is great article to read. I don’t have any more babies now. I did struggle lot to give veggies for my kids when they are young like other mums.

- - Mom7534689 said
  - 16 Aug 2021
    7:30 am
Exposure exposure exposure

- - ashblonde said
  - 14 Aug 2021
    10:07 pm
Variety is the spice of life, so I made sure my babies tried every veg available at the time, they have all grown up enjoying their food & I never had a fussy eater.

- - mom474992 said
  - 14 Aug 2021
    9:34 am
I’m looking forward to trying these with choc chips

- - alongcamejayden said
  - 13 Aug 2021
    9:16 pm
I always start with veggies and avo. Never give him sweet fruits until later. He can get all of the nutrients in the veggies so prolong the taste for fruits. That is how I did with my first one and that is how I am doing it again.

- - LCotte60 said
  - 10 Aug 2021
    10:24 pm
Yes I’m a firm believer in starting them early. I changed it up and got them to try all types of veggies. If they didn’t like it, I would try again a few more times and in some cases they ending up liking them. My kids are older now, but they actually their vegetables. Well except for a few specific items, but for the most part they gobble them up.

- - mom462038 said
  - 10 Aug 2021
    5:05 pm
Babies pretty much enjoy all food. It’s not until they’re older, toddlers, that they start having dislikes. Then it just continues to get harder

- - mom480065 said
  - 10 Aug 2021
    3:41 pm
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- - Forgetful Mumma said
  - 10 Aug 2021
    12:58 pm
All three of my babies got veggie purée from about a week after starting on “solids”. They all love their veg. Broccoli, peas and corn are the big favourites in our house… potato too.

- - Ellen said
  - 10 Aug 2021
    4:12 am
Yes, I think it all has to do with what you offer them, keep the fruits out of their dinner bowl, offer a great variety of veggies and make it lots of fun.
I don’t agree that “No one has enough hours in the day for all that blending”. It really isn’t that much work, my kids got daily a home cooked meal.

- - Frankiielot said
  - 09 Aug 2021
    11:10 pm
My 6 month old has veg and then dessert lol. If he doesn’t eat his veg then no dessert!

- - tea4tee said
  - 09 Aug 2021
    9:17 pm
I went to a PD event years ago that spoke about not teaching kids about good vs bad foods. They’re all just food. You as the parent are in control of offering appropriate foods and let the kid be in control of what they take and how much. Very similar to the idea behind BLW.
We’ve done this from the start with my baby and currently her favourite food is broccoli!
- mom478886 replied
  
  10 Aug 2021 , 3:56 am
  Yes this! I’ve been reading a lot about the division of responsibility when it comes to food, so the parent chooses what and when we eat, the child chooses if and how much to eat. And dessert isn’t tied to the child eating their dinner. I like the idea of not shaming different foods and allowing a child to learn to respond to their hunger cues appropriately.
  - Ellen replied
    
    13 Aug 2021 , 3:52 am
    
    Yes I like the what and when for the parents and the if and how much for the child to decide !
- - Mrs.twinmama said
  - 09 Aug 2021
    8:01 pm
My sons ate veggies by the handful as babies, now they are picky preschoolers.

- - BellaB said
  - 09 Aug 2021
    7:20 pm
The trouble is they then grow up a bit, and their friends tell them they should hate veggies.

- - A Mother’s Day said
  - 09 Aug 2021
    6:28 pm
I have always made puréed veggies when my boys have started out on solids and they’ve loved it! Luckily they have always been great eaters. I mix veggies to give them different tastes after introducing them.
- Ellen replied
  
  10 Aug 2021 , 7:36 am
  Very good, way to go
- - Zmijka86 said
  - 09 Aug 2021
    6:08 pm
My kids had fruits and vegetables at the same stage and they love vegetables..