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Veggie drinks for kids: is it 'dewicious' or devious?

Filed under: Health & Safety: Babies, Nutrition: Health, Development/Milestones: Babies

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v-fusionWe got a tip this afternoon from Jamie, whose three-year-old daughter proclaimed the V8 V-Fusion fruit-and-veggie drinks "dewicious." Says Jamie, "I can't pay her to eat her peas, so this is another way I can bribe my way into improving her diet."

I've tried this too, buying "green juice," as I call it, from Trader Joe's and the local organic markets. My son loves it, as well. But every time I broach this subject, I remember Martin.

He's my friend Larissa's husband, and his mom hid vegetables in his food. When he discovered her deceit, he rebelled, and to this day (he's a daddy himself, now) he doesn't like many vegetables. Especially the long-ago hidden ones.

So what do you think: dewicious, or deception? Or does it matter as long as they get the protections of those luscious vitamins and minerals?

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Start by teaching him that it is safe to do so.