Tips for Helping Your Kids to Enjoy Raw Vegan Foods

Grow Your Own – Kids love to help out in the garden so plant one! It is a rich introduction to living foods and allows them to see first hand how food grows and makes its way to our dinner plate. Even if you have to use containers on a small apartment patio your kids can still grow their own food, perhaps grape tomatoes. Kids are much more likely to try foods that they grow themselves too.

Pick Your Own – If you don’t have a garden or even if you do…you can’t possibly grow everything. Look for Pick Your Own farms in your area where you can wander the farm and pick your own fruits and veggies.

Forage in the Wild – It’s a lot of fun for the whole family to go foraging in the wild for berries, nuts, and other delectable eats. Study up on what kind of edible food can be found in your area, go hiking, and ask around if any hot spots are known and get started!

Preparing Food Together – Get your kids involved in the process of shopping for food and making the food. Kids can become pretty handy when hot stoves aren’t required. If they feel personally vested in the meal processes they are much more likely to be open minded about new textures and flavors. Kids love to hobnob at farmer’s markets too.

Get exotic – Exotic or rare fruits and veggies can get pricey so they aren’t usually to be found in the average raw family home. However, it is fun once a month or so to shop for a brand new-to-you food…maybe a sapodilla, durian, star fruit, etc. You can find them in Asian or International food markets most times.

Raw Food Parties – Look for raw foodies in your area (try meetup.com) and have a potluck once a month for good conversation and exposure to new raw dishes. There are also fun raw food conventions and seminars you can go to and many allow kids.

Educate them – Talk to your kids about raw, living foods and why they are different than what you buy at the store and why processed foods are not healthy for us. When kids realize that food can hurt them they will be more open to the idea of raw foods.

Show excitement – If you love raw foods your enthusiasm will be contagious!

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