Saltwire – Laura Churchill Duke
Because her oldest child loved almost all foods, Myra Hyland-Samson thought all her younger children would be the same.
“It turns out our younger two children have major trouble with texture, and after watching them genuinely gag on cooked vegetables, I gave up,” says the mom from Arichat, Cape Breton.
It’s common for kids to have reservations around vegetables, typically beginning in the toddler years, explains Danielle Farrell, a dietician for Dominion stores in St. John’s, Mount Pearl, and Conception Bay South, N.L. She lists a number of factors at play: taste, texture, and mealtime pressures.