The biggest mistake you can make is: "When you are a working mother, or a busy parent, and you want to get food on the table, you fall back on certain habits because you just want to get them to eat as opposed to not eating.
"And I think that maybe sometimes we give up too soon. We tend to say, 'Oh, my son doesn't like peas, so let me eliminate that. And let me find other vegetables.' A lot of times they're pretty picky, and if you come up with new ways [to serve them], you shouldn't give up on the peas right away. They change from week to week."
How getting them involved can help: "I'll tell them to help me get the food out of the refrigerator, or you can talk about the vegetable, and cut it up and make it exciting, and you model the behavior of you eating it, and you kind of make it a little more fun. That's why I love Libby's vegetables in a cup. Number one, any time you see things in a cup, or in the snack drawer — every mom has that snack drawer where the kids go to where they think it's the best stuff — because it comes in a cup, they think it's not so good for you, which is good for me!"
![The biggest mistake you can make is: "When you are a working mother, or a busy parent, and you want to get food on the table, you fall back on certain habits because you just want to get them to eat as opposed to not eating.
"And I think that maybe sometimes we give up too soon. We tend to say, 'Oh, my son doesn't like peas, so let me eliminate that. And let me find other vegetables.' A lot of times they're pretty picky, and if you come up with new ways [to serve them], you shouldn't give up on the peas right away. They change from week to week."
How getting them involved can help: "I'll tell them to help me get the food out of the refrigerator, or you can talk about the vegetable, and cut it up and make it exciting, and you model the behavior of you eating it, and you kind of make it a little more fun. That's why I love Libby's vegetables in a cup. Number one, any time you see things in a cup, or in the snack drawer — every mom has that snack drawer where the kids go to where they think it's the best stuff — because it comes in a cup, they think it's not so good for you, which is good for me!"](https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/thumbor/kvgbrJg-CyAXeZafCqycoWk_T-I/fit-in/1024x1024/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-/2015/03/02/901/n/24155406/c35ac52d8dc31c32_GettyImages_455626030/i/biggest-mistake-you-can-make-When-you-working-mother.jpg "The biggest mistake you can make is: \"When you are a working mother, or a busy parent, and you want to get food on the table, you fall back on certain habits because you just want to get them to eat as opposed to not eating.
\"And I think that maybe sometimes we give up too soon. We tend to say, 'Oh, my son doesn't like peas, so let me eliminate that. And let me find other vegetables.' A lot of times they're pretty picky, and if you come up with new ways [to serve them], you shouldn't give up on the peas right away. They change from week to week.\"
How getting them involved can help: \"I'll tell them to help me get the food out of the refrigerator, or you can talk about the vegetable, and cut it up and make it exciting, and you model the behavior of you eating it, and you kind of make it a little more fun. That's why I love Libby's vegetables in a cup. Number one, any time you see things in a cup, or in the snack drawer — every mom has that snack drawer where the kids go to where they think it's the best stuff — because it comes in a cup, they think it's not so good for you, which is good for me!\"")
