Chocolate and I are BFFs, but even best friends need to spend some time apart. I also love almost every fruit and vegetable I have ever tasted.
Walk around a school cafeteria and talk to the students at lunch time, some will hustle to hide their cookie cones and chip bags because these foods are "bad." I make sure they know how I feel..."Ice cream IS delicious!" Then I tell them how fantastic red grapes taste when you freeze them. We talk about our favorite fruits and vegetables and how cool all the different colors are. It's not about making food bad, it's about sharing the awesomeness of highly nutritious, beautiful food!
Telling people what NOT to eat should not be the central theme of promoting healthy eating. Research into effective advertising has shown that talking about what's great about your product is far more persuasive than talking about what is wrong with the competing product. Eating our vegetables should never be equated with punishment! Vegetables are delicious!
If we want our kids to make friends with fruits and veggies; we have to introduce them. Once they get to know each other they can be taste buds, and those friendships can last a long, healthy lifetime.
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