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What Crazy, Silly, or Sneaky Thing Have You Done To Get Your Child To Eat? (#Giveaway: Win $50 AmEx Card)

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I don't force my kids to eat something they don't like but I do ask that they clear their plate of 'yummy' food before enjoying desert.

 

 

Parenthood is filled with rewards.  Parents are awarded with beautiful ballet recitals, Boy Scout badges that parent and child have both worked  hard to receive, report cards with straight As (maybe a B or two), and decent manners.
Most parents would agree however, that one of the biggest challenges is getting our kids to eat well. Most parents will do whatever it takes to triumph in a suppertime scuffle.  Most of my regular readers know that I am not one to make my kids clear their plates or eat something they absolutely despise.  They won’t get desert if they don’t clear their plate though.

Crazy things I’ve done to get my kids to eat their dinner:

  • I admit to letting my daughter eat inside her playhouse while the rest of us ate at the table.
  • One thing that I’ve been able to pull of with my 5 year old is that I tell her that there isn’t any ice cream in the freezer but if she eats all of her yummy food, I might be able to pull something off.  I have to hide the ice cream on the top shelf of the refrigerator, in the way back so she can’t see it before I pull that trick.  I’ve only done that twice.. really.

 

Ragú,via the new Ragú Asks campaign is asking parents to tell their stories on Facebook.com/Ragúsauce.

Watch this hilarious video of a mom letting her kids eat braided sphaghetti (with Ragú sauce) off her head. A little over the top, I know, but it’s pretty funny!

 

To keep things saucy here on TheMommyInside.com, I am going to randomly offer one TheMommyInsider.com reader a $50 AmEx card!

How would you like to win a $50 AmEx giftcard?

To enter to win tell me something crazy, sneaky, or silly that you did to get your child to eat, in the comments below.

Earn two extra entries per action:

Entries accepted through 11:59pm March  20th 2012.
Winner will be chosen via random.org
Winner must respond within 24 hours or a new winner will be drawn.
Open to U.S. residents, 18+.  No P.O. Boxes.

Alicia Hagan, Editor

Disclosure: Ragu is providing the gift card for prizing only. I am not being compensated for sharing this with you.

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1 Elena March 8, 2012 at 1:13 am

My child doesn’t like fish so I told him it was chicken and he believed me.

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I sneak beans into smoothies and homemade popsicles

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15 Jessica F March 8, 2012 at 11:05 pm

I put cheese on everything so that they’ll eat it!

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22 Tabathia B March 8, 2012 at 11:08 pm

I dance for my daughter and help her eat, I usually do the “carlton” dance from the fresh prince

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33 Kimberly March 9, 2012 at 1:03 pm

I like to give my kids finger food for dinner — baby carrots, individual broccoli spears, sweet potato fries, etc. I’m pretty lucky, though — they like fruit and veggies!
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48 Jennifer Marie March 10, 2012 at 9:58 pm

I told my son that eggs were cheese when he was very little b/c I knew he liked cheese and wouldn’t eat the eggs if I told them they were eggs. Now he loves eggs!

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55 Mary Happymommy March 11, 2012 at 12:13 pm

We were once so desperate to get our son to eat that my husband told him the police would take him to kid jail if he didn’t finish his dinner. Our son was about 3 1/2 at the time. We didn’t use that ploy again, although it worked that time.

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62 april yedinak March 11, 2012 at 8:43 pm

I always hide veggies in our pasta dishes and never own up to it until after they have eaten it and said it was good. Then I am like, “Aha! There were mushrooms, carrots and onions in that!”
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66 Kathryn C. March 14, 2012 at 6:40 pm

I have done everything from the Happy Dance to the Airplane in Hangar scenario to get my son to eat. He is a very picky eater and sadly to say most of the time it doesn’t work. I can only hope that this will change as he gets older. Thanks for the giveaway!

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80 Stephanie March 15, 2012 at 2:00 pm

i have mixed veggies in mashed potatos

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85 Kelly D March 15, 2012 at 2:08 pm

Sometimes, I like to arrange my children’s food in the shape of smiley faces to get them to eat. And also, I threaten that one child will eat the other’s food if they don’t. That works sometimes.

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I like to make fun shapes out of food when I can
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91 Carmen Q. March 15, 2012 at 11:43 pm

Just mix veggies with rice or mashed potatoes, doesn’t taste as icky that way

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95 sandra March 16, 2012 at 9:27 am

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96 Christine M Tubbytelly March 16, 2012 at 4:51 pm

Not too silly but I have added apple sauce to dinner when my toddler protests.
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103 Amanda J. March 16, 2012 at 5:30 pm

I often use vegetable that have been shredded or pureed to fool even myself! Add some butternut squash into mac & cheese or extra veggies in a meatloaf and no one knows the difference!

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110 Jamie March 16, 2012 at 5:50 pm

Hmmmm I’ve made “Shrek” green smoothies for breakfast! Anything to make good food fun. :)
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111 Susan Smith March 16, 2012 at 7:42 pm

I have cut up food in fun shapes to get my children to eat.

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121 Sarah L March 16, 2012 at 8:02 pm

No kids, but what seems to help my sister is to have the kids help with the meal.
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125 Margaret Smith March 16, 2012 at 8:09 pm

I sneak veggies into pasta sauce and cover much of their foods with ketchup

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132 Adrienne gordon March 16, 2012 at 8:41 pm

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133 Michelle B March 16, 2012 at 9:12 pm

I made pork cutlets. My son wasn’t going to eat them so I told him they were chicken nuggets. He ate what was on his plate and asked for seconds..lol.
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134 Ann F March 16, 2012 at 9:25 pm

We allow our daughter to put ketchup on EVERYTHING. I don’t how she eats some of the things, but it gets her to eat her vegetables.

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136 Jaque R. March 16, 2012 at 9:57 pm

My children love anything on a stick…I have no idea why, but it gets them into food. I put vegies, cheese, meats…all the healthy stuff on skewers and they love it! :-) Thank you.

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141 Shannon Baas March 16, 2012 at 10:20 pm

put veggies in spaghetti sauce.

142 debra b March 16, 2012 at 11:21 pm

well for my that was a very long time ago since my kids are now grown but I do remember alot of bribing going on with them using candy or promises of a new toy the next time we go to a store, usually in the end they just refused and would sit and pout about it so I eventually gave in to them and just let them slide, to this day my son who is 23 still isnt much of a vegetable eater, corn was the “only” vegetable he would eat as a kid, but he has expanded his choices to now include green beans, peas and even broccoli but never a salad, he just wont eat it
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I’ve cut food up in funny shapes and also let them dip things in ketchup.

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151 Cynthia C March 17, 2012 at 7:18 am

Not so sneaky or silly, but I always found that dips were an easy way to get the kids to eat vegetables.

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NO EAT, NO TRIP TO HERSHEY PARK THE NEXT TIME WE GO…..AND IT HAS ALWAYS WORKED FOR ME….IT YOU SAY SOMETHING TO YOUR KIDS …KEEP YOUR WORD AND THAT MEANS NO TRIP TO HERSHEY PARK….MY KIDS KNEW I MEANT IT

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178 Jason Crooks March 17, 2012 at 6:23 pm

My son never liked his vegetables. I tried lots of things and one finally worked. He always looked up to the neighbor boy next door, thankfully he was a good kid too. Knowing he would do whatever the neighbor boy did I had the neighbor boy over to dinner for a week and gave him 10 bucks to eat all the vegetables and say they were delicious so my boy would eat them too.
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185 Terry March 17, 2012 at 7:34 pm

If the kids didn’t eat what I fixed, they couldn’t go outside to play with their friends. This was a big deal – living on a cul-de-sac lots of fun things going on that they didn’t want to miss!

186 Elizabeth Ray March 17, 2012 at 9:57 pm

I let her alternate ‘bites” with a teddy bear.

187 Bertha Brown March 18, 2012 at 2:14 am

I like to tell my kids they can do something they love to do like stay up past their bedtime to get them to eat what they do not like.
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188 Pauline Milner March 18, 2012 at 4:35 am

For years, our Son thought turnip was yellow potatoes. It was the only way I could get him to eat turnip. Also, we told him that barbeque sauce was ketchup. Sneaky, but it worked. He was a little ticked when he found out the truth!

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My kids don’t like brocolli. I blend it in the blender and put it in our pasta sauce and they have no clue at all. ;)

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200 gemma March 18, 2012 at 3:53 pm

i do the ” oops, didn’t i tell you there were xxxx in the dish?? sorry, though it looks like you like it anyhow”. my older one swore up and down that she hated pumpkin anything. i made a pumpkin cake – almsot like a pound cake with some chocolate chips… she lvoed it!! but said it didn’t count since it wasn’t pumpkin pie!!

201 Rachel March 18, 2012 at 4:02 pm

When my kids were younger I have pureed veggies & hidden them in things like mashed potatoes & sauces!

202 sara March 18, 2012 at 4:05 pm

I let my son eat at a pinic table we moved inside to eat. Its the only place he will sit at

203 Kelly Marceau March 18, 2012 at 4:17 pm

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208 June L March 18, 2012 at 6:42 pm

I pretended to eat the baby food and the boy I was taking care of finally decided that it was really his.

209 Jenny March 18, 2012 at 7:35 pm

My kids will actually eat pretty much anything. If there is something they do not like I just ask that they try it first and then “smile” at it :) Its something one of the day care teachers I used to work with said and I thought it was cute. We also sing a lot so I often make up silly songs when I am getting lunch ready and they sing along.

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We sneak veggies into hamburger, spaghetti, etc.
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220 Jessica March 19, 2012 at 12:09 am

I sneak pureed veggies inside things like pancakes, oatmeal and even brownies :)

221 Stacey B March 19, 2012 at 12:13 am

Everynight is a struggle to get my son to eat. I usually threaten to not allow him to do an activity he likes if he doesn’t eat. IE. play playstation, or watch cartoons for the rest of the night

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223 Leah Swelfer March 19, 2012 at 1:42 am

I agree adding cheese to some veggies really helps hide the strong flavors!

224 brenda March 19, 2012 at 4:48 am

I sneak veggies,they cannot see,in smoothies,casseroles,breads,etc.

225 jennifer horn March 19, 2012 at 8:02 am

I’ve added veggies to things without them knowing. If it doesn’t change the taste and they don’t see me making it, I’ve got it made. :)

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232 evans s March 19, 2012 at 8:21 am

I made whelks in coconut sauce for my family. Instead of leaving the whelks whole I cut them into small pieces. Everyone loved it and were surprised when by how the shell and the whole whelk looked like.

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238 gail March 19, 2012 at 11:36 am

a sneaky thing to do is to puree veggies and put them in items like spaghetti sauce. they won’t taste the difference

239 kazue March 19, 2012 at 11:38 am

something i’ve done is to make fun dipping sauces to dip vegetables in

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242 Lo March 19, 2012 at 2:02 pm

I’ve made chocolate cake with spinach baked in.

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I have put food coloring in his mac and cheese to make it “magic.”

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259 Sara B. March 19, 2012 at 5:06 pm

I put spinach in my brownies.
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260 Alicia Zirjacks March 19, 2012 at 5:52 pm

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263 Sarah March 19, 2012 at 6:49 pm

She didn’t want to try meatloaf so I told her it was Taylor Swifts favorite food.

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267 Kristie March 19, 2012 at 8:23 pm

I remember telling the kids that the quiche was a pizza once, so they’d eat it…they’d know better now :-/
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268 Dana March 19, 2012 at 9:08 pm

I use cheese sauce or some sort of dip. My kids like to dip anything and everything.
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275 Nicole Larsen March 19, 2012 at 9:16 pm

I draw silly faces on my daughter’s food to get her to eat it :)

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279 Eileen March 19, 2012 at 10:10 pm

There was one event for me as a child when a teacher made me eat all my sweet potatoes and I threw them up over the table (and even hit her hand. haha) so I never forced food on kids, but did tell them there was no dessert until they did eat at least a bite or two of what was offered. There was never a “cafeteria” in our house with other things prepared for kids who didnt like what we were having. Now our youngest 3 of 6 at home are 12, 14, and 19 and they love EVERYTHING, even putting us to shame by trying more than we do!

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286 Maria Balmeo March 19, 2012 at 11:27 pm

My nephew doesnt like spinach but he loves pasta. So I often make him a home made tortellini or ravioli.

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290 Norma March 20, 2012 at 2:43 am

My daughter loved music so I would play music and we would eat one food for each song – this only worked when she was really little :)

291 LAMusing March 20, 2012 at 2:46 am

I dont have kids, but I was a picky eater as a child. My mom would let me help make dinner – for some reason if I helped prepare it I was more willing to eat it

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298 The Knapps March 20, 2012 at 9:24 am

We put sweet potatoes in my niece’s mac n cheese so she’ll get some veggies :)

299 Nancy March 20, 2012 at 12:15 pm

I’ve made designs or pictures on my children’s plates with food.

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302 Judy March 20, 2012 at 1:24 pm

We’ve totally put his plate of food on the floor- he sometimes just prefers it. When he’s sick I’ll let him eat ice cream, just to get some calories in him.

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306 ewhatley March 20, 2012 at 5:11 pm

They’ll eat anything except veggies. So I put pureed veggies in every ground meat dish, such as hamburgers, meatloaf, spaghetti sauce and they gobble it up.

307 anna pry March 20, 2012 at 7:38 pm

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318 Chelsea Wong March 20, 2012 at 9:37 pm

My baby is a little young for such strategies, but its helpful to read everyones comments!
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322 Lisa March 21, 2012 at 11:25 am

I’ve blended all kinds of veggies into various other foods so that my kids get some veggies in. I’ve also disguised foods as other foods to make them look more appealing! ie meatball cupcakes with mashed potato frosting
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323 Teresa Moore March 21, 2012 at 2:06 pm

I add applesauce and smashed fruit to pancakes and muffins. Tried to hide vegtables in spaghetti once, but I did not mash them up enough and she picked them all out! haha

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330 tess March 21, 2012 at 4:36 pm

my son refused to eat all vegetables- so i made him carrot muffins for breakfast- it was a long process too- but worth it- he ate it
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333 Debi March 27, 2012 at 6:13 am

Just for fun…could this include horses?? I have hollowed out the inside of a carrot, stuffed it with medicine, put the top back on, and let him eat it. Only works once, though.

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