If you’d like to entice your baby to consume some of those greens and other healthy options, there are a few things you can do to alter the presentation to hopefully find that magic preparation that gets them to change their mind.

1. If your baby won’t eat the pureed vegetables you’ve prepared for their meals, try stirring reasonable amounts of it into some other food items that they like such as pasta, soups or cereals.

2. Instead of preparing your baby’s food with water, try a tastier broth like chicken stock.  It should both smell and taste more appetizing, increasing the likelihood they’ll take to it.

3. If your baby likes muffins or similar soft breads, try using grated vegetables as part of the baking ingredients.

4. Babies love finger foods – it’s plenty of fun, after all, to take food yourself and pop it down your mouth.  You can try slicing your cooked veggies into bite sized pieces and serve them before their actual meals.  Let them play with it a couple of times and see what happens.

5. Top vegetable meals with grated (even melted) cheese.  Babies usually enjoy the taste of cheese (perhaps  a few of your other dressings will work as well) and might be persuaded to eat their veggies that way.

When you find your baby taking well to a particular vegetable preparation, don’t keep serving them the same thing. Babies greatly benefit from experiencing and learning about different tastes and textures so do provide them with variety occasionally.