Tips and Ideas

[WeThree]

Come on guys i know im not the only one out there always looking for new and improved ways to convince my children to eat nourishing food, please share your wisdom and recipes !

[mumof2girls]

Hey coopsntilly's mum, it looks like I'm chasing you around the forums, or maybe we both have a lot to say!

Anyway I found that because I use to puree all my own vegies from the garden (yes I grew my own) It didn't matter how many different ways I mixed them up they would soon get bored with them and I didn't like store bought baby food so I use to add a little apple sauce and stir it through their food and they always ate it as it was a little sweeter.

One of their other favourites is carrots cooked in butter & brown sugar (not often because of the sugar) or sometimes a little honey drizzled over their vegies when they are a bit older, they seem to like the sweetness. If they wouldn't it something then I would wait a few months and try again as their tastebuds change.
Hope these help, they worked for me

Kay

[WeThree]

hi kay, i am about to start my own vegie garden too, but have never ventured in to anything like that before, any tips?(i know one min im demanding recipes the next gardening tips, but bear with me! )

[mumof2girls]

I always found big pots were better as I had no weeding and always had plenty of vegies but never to much, it just seemed to work better than an actual garden, also if we ever moved we could it with us and not have to start from scratch again.

As the girls we able to do things as they got older I would buy them little pots so they could grow their own and they loved being able to plant/water and grow something (and also get wet & muddy at the same time) and also eat what they had grown it was also a learning experience of where some foods come from.

As they got older the pots got bigger, one of them still enjoys gardening today, the other loves to read!

Kay

[WeThree]

hi kay can you grow pretty much anything in the pots?

[mumof2girls]

We grew just about everything, the girls even insisted growing a watermelon and it survived the pot, we also had bean, carrots, strawberries, lettuces, cucumbers, just to name a few

Good luck!

[WeThree]

thankyou for that, i told my hubby and he is very excited to hear that he will no longer be required to dig up the backyard! i'll let you know how it goes

[mumof2girls]

Hi coopsntilly's mum, I'm glad that you have decided to try the pots, just remember to buy organic soil so it doesn't have chemicals in it and you know what's in the soil so your children & you guys will have real organic vegies.

Happy growing!

Kay

[WeThree]

thanks kay i was actually going to write another post because i wanted to ask you about soil etc, you read my mind!

[mumof2girls]

coopsntilly's mum I guess I can, as I said just use organic soil. We never used any fertilisers but in the off season we would update about 1/4 of the soil and mix it up really well and we never had a problem growing anything.


Good luck
Kay