Parents Share Tricks They Use To Make Their Kids Eat Healthy Foods, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Ones

How do you make your kid eat things like brussels sprouts, peas, and spinach? That is the question older than the time itself.

And although many people have come up with specific ways of deceiving their kids, they work only on particular kids and are not universal. However, coming up with a way to make all kids eat their vegetables will have his name written in history books.

And many people are trying, not because they want to be in history books, but because they want their kids to be healthy. And to achieve that, a diet must include a variety of foods.

Unfortunately, even the most beneficial food stops being healthy if that's all we eat. So, how to solve the problem of picky eaters?

Emily Adrian, the author of Everything Here Is Under Control and The Second Season, recently turned to Twitter to share one trick that worked well on her 4-year-old son. After seeing him "provoking" her by putting a dirty leaf in his mouth, again and again, Adrian decided to make the most out of the situation and offered him "special eating leaves" instead.

And just like that, she successfully made him eat an entire bowl of salad. Her post quickly went viral, and other parents shared their little tricks:

1. Just listen to the music...

bellacatzzz

2. Forbidden, magical and baby tree bones...

jakedsauls

3. Cat food for humans...

RubyMoon7196

4. Brussels sprouts are dinosaur eggs

ellesanto

5. Frozen peas can be rocks...

firechild

6. Paint a picture

nursekaylea

7. Tree stars

MelRebels

8. Meat yogurt

valuemeal2

9. Apple fries

mindyrae29

10. Monster ravioli

AmyKStuart

11. It disappears when you taste it...

bbkoresh

12. Pink chicken and white broccoli

VischLa

13. Rabbits eating lettuce

Footstepsmany

14. Xperinents...

VSTMMJJ

15. Giraffes eat lettuce...

ByKathleenMoore

16. Baby trees...

cosmyra64

17. Which power ranger?

GodDamnitLopori

18. It’s all chicken...

joahsgf

19. Hermione Granger's favorite food...

GENDERHAWK

20. It is not spinach. It is a nice green leaf...

Zelmel

21. Stick Man to the rescue...

polywhat

22. White sausages are the best...

EdMRound

23. Yellow food helps your body heal cuts - just like Wolverine!

seamagick

24. "Prune Treats"

LeftistCapital

25. Salad with dressing? No! Okay, how about leafs with dip?

LilySAxelrod

26. Nature's wine

bcb567

27. Destroy those zombie eggs!

DNT310

28. It is a vessel for balsamic dressing.

cordeux

29. That would be awesome

CutsVote

30. Hello Kitty Eggs

DruEiren

Well, how do you like these tricks? Have you tried any of them yourself?

Kids love stories, and it’s important that every food has some type of story behind it. Of course, this is needed only for the food they don’t like because they don’t really care to hear a story about the food they love – they will eat it in a second.

It’s funny how we start liking the food we once detested when we get older. But we should highlight that this applies only to food we weren’t forced to eat.

Children shouldn’t be forced to eat some type of food because they will detest it for the rest of their lives, always subconsciously connecting it to their childhood lunch traumas. So instead, it would be best to devise tricks and procedures to make them believe they are eating it voluntarily.

Oh, and good luck.