But all family members, including children, need a variety of foods to insure good nutrition. Plan Colorful and Attractive Meals Children notice color in meals. Colorful foods such as fruit gelatin often are popular with them. You may improve your child's eating by serving foods of various shapes arranged in interesting ways. Children do not like foods mixed together as well as they like them served separately.
Some children eat the entire serving of one food before they taste another.
So serve small portions of food and separate them carefully to make meals more attractive to your child. The range of temperatures acceptable to them is narrower than the range for adults. Their taste buds are more sensitive than those of adults. Children also prefer mildly seasoned foods rather than highly seasoned, strong flavored foods. Stringiness in beans, scum on cocoa, and seeds in tomatoes or berries may be distasteful to your child.