Getting kids to eat fruit and Vegies

I have had many mothers ask me how I get my daughter to eat fruit and vegies. I don't give her a choice. From the time she started having solid foods she has been eating fruit and vegies. When she was first eating solids I would cook up a whole heap of vegies and blend them together with a bit of mince and would pack it into little containers and freeze them. I would do at least a week at a time. She never has the packaged or bottled food.

Once she got old enough to chew her food I no longer blended the vegies but gave her them individually. I made it so that mummy would eat the same thing and she loves to do what mummy does. We have our days where she would sometimes sit in her high chair for half an hour or more until she ate most of her Vegies but I wouldn't give her a choice and eventually she would eat it and now knows that it is just easier to eat it at the start instead of challenge the issue.

Also after her dinner she has yoghurt and fruit as a dessert and only on special occasions we will have dessert. We also have one night a week which is chocolate night where she is allowed a chocolate of her choice. I think this is a good start to get children to eat vegies and fruit and also to start a healthy life.