As a kid who has grown up eating lots of veggies and fruit without a fight, I thought I would share a few of my mom's and my favorite ideas with you!

1. Add a can of coconut milk to rice right after it finishes cooking and serve with frozen or fresh mango slices.


2. Mix yogurt with slightly frozen berries, especially blueberries.


3. If you like crunchy, mix the yogurt with the berries, and add a bit of cereal or granola, tasty way to get calcium if you do not drink milk.


4. Rice with pineapple slices. Good warm or cold.


5. Smoothies.


6. Sweet potatoes (mashed) with a small amount of brown sugar in them, and marshmallows toasted on the top (Mom says -- marshmallows are for holidays only)


7. Green beans sautéed a minute with butter and garlic (works with spinach too)


8. Sweet carrots -- add a little butter or brown sugar to the carrots after they are cooked


9. Make eating fruit and veggies fun, examples include:
• Sushi bar type thing -- put out sheets of seaweed, rice, rice seasonings, and veggies and let kids roll u their own sushi rolls. The seaweed and seasonings are available in Asian food stores, which is a fun field trip.


• Make your own omelets, or smoothies -- everyone cuts up the possible ingredients and then makes their own. Supervision with stove required for young kids.


• Fruit salad bar -- add mini marshmallows, nuts, and yogurt as toppings.


• Scavenger hunt (eat all of your vegetables on the list, and you get a two dollar toy next time we go out/cookie)
10. Fruit on pancakes or with a serving (that is 1/2 cup) of ice cream.


11. When playing Monopoly, put a bowl of sliced fruit in the Free Parking spot, and whenever they land there, they take a bit (with the money, of course).


12. Frozen fruit in the summer -- frozen grapes, frozen bananas and strawberries, possibly with a thin coating of chocolate, it's good in the heat.


13. Take an ice cube tray, or popsicle mold, get some fruit juice, orange, lemon, lime, grape, whatever, and insert little pieces of fruit like strawberries, banana, whatever the kid likes, and it's like a treat at the center, an incentive, and it tastes good too!