Buy lower fat salad dressings and light mayonnaise and use in very small amounts. If adding sauce to vegetables, tomato-based sauces are best. If making white sauce or cheese sauce, use low fat milk and low fat cheese. Try not to smother vegetables in sauces or dressings. If adding toppings to fruit, try low fat custard, low fat yoghurt or a little light cream.
Children often prefer fruit and fruit juice to vegetables - that's alright.
As long as they eat a variety of fruit each day, they will get all of the vitamins and minerals they need. Children love easy to eat fruit like kiwis, mandarins, small apples and bananas. Keep your fruit basket well topped up. When it comes to the crunch, chidren often prefer raw vegetables. So offer carrot or cucumber sticks, tomatoes or any favourite raw vegetable as snacks.