• About
    • Work With Me – Individuals
    • Work With Me – Businesses
    • In The News
    • Privacy Policy, Terms & Disclosure
  • Gluten Free Flour
  • Gluten Free Bread Mix
  • Free GF Bread Making Guide
  • Cookery Classes
    • 1:1 Gluten Free Cookery Classes
    • How To Make Gluten Free Bread
    • How To Make Healthy Gluten Free Treats
    • Gluten Free Savoury Bakes Online Cooking Course
    • How To Make Gluten Free Puff Pastry – Video Lesson
    • Gluten Free Christmas (Pre-recorded)
  • Recipe Books
    • How To Make Gluten Free Pastry – Recipe E-Book
    • Gluten Free Easter Recipes (Downloadable Book)
    • Simple Gluten Free Breakfast Recipe Book
    • Gluten Free Christmas Recipes (Downloadable Book)
  • Recipes
    • Gluten Free Recipes
      • Easter
      • Vegan
      • Recipes Using My Flour
      • Breakfast
      • Main Meal
      • Vegetarian
      • Side Dishes
      • Snacks
      • Condiments
      • Desserts
      • Bread
      • Cakes & Bakes
      • Biscuits & Cookies
      • Birthday Cakes
      • Drinks
      • Seasonal
      • Cosmetics/Personal Care
      • Christmas
    • Dairy-free Recipes
    • Egg Free Recipes
    • Soya Free Recipes
    • Nut Free Recipes
    • Refined Sugar Free Recipes
    • Yeast Free Recipes
    • Low FODMAP Recipes
  • Online Courses
    • Gluten Free Diet For Beginners: Free E-Course
    • Say Goodbye To Gluten – Online Course
  • Shop
  • Blog
    • Health blogs
    • Gluten Free Eating Out
    • Vicki’s favourite things
    • Gluten Free Tips & Support
    • Gluten Free Book Reviews
    • Gluten Free Kids
    • Interviews
  • Podcast
  • Contact
  • Nav Social Menu

    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • LinkedIn
    • Pinterest
    • Twitter
    • YouTube
  • 0 items£0.00
The Free From Fairy

The Free From Fairy

Home » Gluten Free Tips & Support » How To Get Your Kids (Or Yourself) To Eat Fruit

28th May 2016 ·

How To Get Your Kids (Or Yourself) To Eat Fruit

Gluten Free Tips & Support· Health

IMG_5605-1024x683

I am a self-confessed vegetable addict.  But fruit?

Well, I’d happily not bother and nor would Roo…unless of course, it is made exciting.

Roo hasn’t confessed to being a vegetable addict yet, and at the age of 8 I’m not sure she will any time soon!

Since following the I Quit Sugar programme, we as a family certainly eat a lot less sugar than we did.

I’m not sure the kids are quite ready to give up on pudding all together so I started to do some experimenting to try and get Roo in particular to get excited about fruit as a pudding (sorry Carly over at GFreeB, but these days in our house fruit is a pudding…you’ll no doubt think so one day too!).

Firstly I gave them some apple or pear cut up and sprinkled with cinnamon.  Even Roo’s fruit-hating friend liked that and ate a tonne of fruit.

Next day I ramped up the experiment and gave them choice.

Roo and Pickle love to experiment, so I came up with the idea of providing a load of delicious spices, a pestle and mortar (to crush some of the spices and add to the fun), some cacao nibs, dessicated coconut, my favourite book “The Flavour Thesaurus” (which literally tells you what flavour to pair with what) and some fruit.

Hey presto.  Fruit got eaten for pudding and I had to limit their intake (I think they would have eaten everything we had in the house)!

They discovered that pear and star anise go beautifully together; that banana and cardamom are a gorgeous combination; that apple and nutmeg is exciting and that strawberries dipped in cacao nibs are pretty darn special.

Not only were they eating fruit, but they were dicovering the joys of flavour combinations, a skill that will be useful in later life when they are cooking their own food.

So I challenge you.

Did out the spices and any other bits you have in the cupboard that you could sprinkle on fruit (and that doesn’t contain sugar!), cut up some fruit and have some fun…

Let me know what you and/or your children think!

Free From Farmhouse
Previous Post: « Gluten-free Paris & A Gluten-free, Dairy-free, Sugar-free Birthday Cake
Next Post: Gluten Free Waffles (Dairy-free, Sugar-free) »

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Mel says

    25th July 2016 at 8:56 pm

    What a brilliant idea! My little monkeys find the texture of pears quite revolting, but other than that, they love fruit. Their favourite treat is a wide range of fruit and a few wooden skewers. There’s something really special about making your own fruit kebabs when you’re 3 or 4 (or 36!). x

    • Vicki Montague says

      25th July 2016 at 9:17 pm

      Oh yes, sticks and fruit. And even better, some melted chocolate!!! Yummy.

Primary Sidebar

Vicki Montague, the Free From Fairy

Welcome!

Hi. I'm Vicki Montague, scientist and mum to 'Roo' (16) and 'Sunshine' (14). I'm a freelance recipe developer specialising in 'free from' food and spend many hours in my kitchen experimenting to create exciting healthy recipes that are all gluten-free & mainly dairy-free. In July 2016 I launched the world's first wholegrain, gluten-free and rice-free flour blends. In May 2018 I launched my first online programme to help people adapt to a gluten free life. I can be found at food festivals giving cookery demos and I love nothing more than teaching people how to cook and lead a positive wholesome life. Find out more about my story...

Follow me…

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Footer

"Let food be thy medicine. And let medicine be thy food".

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Roo’s Recipes
  • Shop
  • Vicki Recommends
  • Useful Websites
  • Full Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2025 · Free From Fairy