How to get your kids to eat their greens? Simple. Follow this NO FAIL guaranteed guide to healthy eating.

Follow these steps with your child:

1. Plant broccoli in the garden
2. Watch it grow
3. Go to the fruit shop
4. Buy broccoli
5. Smell it. Does it have a smell?
6. Feel it. Is it hard? Would it be crunchy to eat?
7. What sound might it make when you eat it?
8. Look at broccoli. What colour is it?
9. Draw a picture of broccoli
10. Pretend to make broccoli soup
11. Ask child to wash broccoli
12. Cut broccoli (with kids knife)
13. Lightly Steam broccoli
14. Serve with a sauce (cheese, tzatziki, peanut butter)
15. Serve with carrots
16. Put broccoli in the middle of the table
17. Serve yourself some broccoli
18. Sit at the table and eat broccoli with you child
19. Comment how crunchy broccoli is
20. DO NOT comment or worry if you child does or does not eat broccoli.
21. Next day. Stir fry broccoli in a sweet soy sauce. Serve with chicken, rice and other accepted vegetables in the middle of table
22. Sit at the table with your child and serve yourself some broccoli
23. Comment how sweet the broccoli is today
24. Give tongs to child to let them serve themselves.
25. DO NOT comment or worry if child does not eat broccoli
26. 4 days later make broccoli fritters
27. Put in middle of table
28. Serve yourself broccoli
29. Eat broccoli
30. Let child choose or not choose broccoli
31. Go to store to buy more broccoli
32. Repeat
33. Repeat again and again, don’t bother counting how many times
34. Smile
35. Eventually they will try broccoli. And in the meantime you’ve eaten lots of delicious broccoli
36. Repeat from Step 1 but replace broccoli with a different green veg (or any fruit or veg)

note: if you too are still learning to like broccoli, then tell your children, share it with your children and go on the journey together.