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the nearest theme park, or a new video game cassette may be worth it to get your kids involved with vegetables for 30 days.

10. Pay attention to the vegetables your children like best and serve them most often. After trying the 30 day vegetable hunt ask them to make a list of their 10 best vegetables. Two servings a day should be familiar vegetables if you want the third serving to be something new.

11. Help your children grow vegetables in the back yard. They can take pride in harvesting part of the meal. Cucumber sandwiches, corn on the cob and carrot salad are all better when they are fresh from the garden. Teach them to grow sprouts and then make sure eat them before they get old. With older kids you can make it a project to set up an hydroponic tomato plant. Let them look it up on the internet, devise and inexpensive design and then carry it out!

12. Soups may be a way to get the vegetables into your children. Will like they like alphabet vegetable soup? or a vegetable juice drink? Try tomato soup with whip cream for valentines day, or pea soup with whip cream for St. Patrick's day. A smiley face of whip cream coming at them from their dish can make the difference and sweeten the soup.

A dozen tips and trick for making vegetables more enjoyable never succeed in making me enjoy my vegetables, but at least they impressed upon me the importance of finding the ways to make them a part of my daily diet. Maybe it will work for your family as well. Maybe they'll even enjoy them!

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