another tip - veg sticks and dip - most kids I know love to dip! - hommus is a fantastic healthy high protein veg dip...or just plain yoghurt.

My mum used to make the salad/veg part of dinner first, put it out on the kitchen bench or on the dining table, then go back to the kitchen to finish off 'dinner' - because we were hungry, we'd eat half the veg/salad before dinner was ready - whereas, serve the 'main course' first - you can forget the veggies!

Also, the example we set is the one our kids will follow - so if you or your husband are particular about their veg, the kids may be also..

Another one is try various options with cooking - my kids prefer raw broccoli and carrots to cooked ones...

Another one is to buy tinned veggies - now, culturally, I'd never use these, but gee it's easy to mush up those tinned baby carrots and hide them in anything...

And of course, if the kids help cook it, they are far more likely to eat it...

And my last piece of advice, write down what they do eat...for a few days, or anything they have tried and eaten, even just once - if they can 'stomach' it then they 'can' eat it - the food battles may not be actually because they don't like it - it might be because they are just exercising their right to say no, or because they are hanging out for something 'better', or just because they are not hungry...

Oh, and last one, try not to resort to hot chips - a friend fell for this one, and by age 4 her kid is twice the size of the other four year olds - mum keeps saying she can't understand how her daughter got so fat - after telling me at age three that the only thing she would eat was hot chips - so she was cooking them at home for her with every meal!!! - I tell you, that child did not starve!