Want your kid to eat a piece of fruit with dinner? Here’s a strategy, bold and unusual, but worth a shot:
Step 1. Give them dinner.
Step 2. Ask them if they want a piece of fruit.
Yes, it could be that simple according to a recent Yale study. Students upped their fruit intake by a large percentage after cafeteria workers simply starting asking them if they wanted a piece.
Other simple market techniques, like renaming vegetables with more exciting names (such as X-Ray Vision Carrots) had a major impact on what kids would agree to eat. That trick can actually work on adults. During a recent diet, my wife asked me if I wanted Angelina Jolie for dinner (for the record, not that tasty - and it wasn’t too fun watching her dig into that slab of Clive Owen).
