{"id":10126,"date":"2011-01-25T14:49:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T20:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sustainablog.org\/?p=10126"},"modified":"2017-09-19T19:44:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T23:44:48","slug":"the-cleaner-plate-club-how-to-get-your-kids-to-eat-and-like-their-vegetables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/the-cleaner-plate-club-how-to-get-your-kids-to-eat-and-like-their-vegetables\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cleaner Plate Club: How to Get Your Kids to Eat&#8230; and Like&#8230; their Vegetables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to Get Kids to Eat Vegetables: The Cleaner Plate Club\" width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qAX44ivJ_Ko?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update: <\/strong>We have \u00a0a winner&#8230; Marie Hemming of La Jolla, California won the copy of <em>The Cleaner Plate Club <\/em>in our drawing&#8230; and hope she&#8217;ll let us know which recipe went over best with the family (especially the pickiest eater on the planet)!<\/p>\n<p>Deal with &#8220;Ewww, I don&#8217;t like that&#8221; a lot at the dinner table? Feel pressed for time between all the other activities that fill your day, and \u00a0just want meals to be quick and convenient? Yep, we&#8217;ve all been there&#8230; but we also want our kids to eat well. <a href=\"http:\/\/expatriateskitchen.blogspot.com\/\">Beth Bader<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/cleanerplateclub.com\/\">Ali Benjamin<\/a>&#8216;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1603425853?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=subl20-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1603425853\">The Cleaner Plate Club: Raising Healthy Eaters One Meal at a Time<\/a><\/em> (affiliate link) addresses those battles with warmth, support, and empathy.<\/p>\n<p>As busy moms themselves, they understand the battles that parents often have to fight regarding food, and provide practical tips and tactics for not just winning those battles, but eliminating them&#8230; at least sometimes. As advocates for sustainable food, they demonstrate how they&#8217;ve made their concerns about mass produced food central to their meal planning, and how they&#8217;ve succeeded in not only getting their kids to eat their vegetables, but also in buying fresh, local, and often organic foods which they feel good about feeding to their families.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Think you might like <em>The Cleaner Plate Club<\/em>? Then Enter to Win a Copy<\/h2>\n<p>Yes, we&#8217;ve got a copy of <em>The Cleaner Plate Club<\/em> to give away&#8230; and it&#8217;s easy to enter. Just leave a comment on this post. We&#8217;d love to hear how you&#8217;ve succeeded in getting your kids to eat better, or how you&#8217;ve managed to introduce more local, fresh and seasonal produce into your family&#8217;s diet&#8230; or the challenges you still face with these issues. Get you comment <strong>in by midnight Central Standard Time on Tuesday, February 1st<\/strong> to enter&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Looking for other ideas for home cooking with sustainable ingredients? We&#8217;ve got a whole host of <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/categories\/natural-foods\/organic-cookbook\">cookbooks<\/a> listed&#8230; as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/categories\/natural-foods\/organic-food\">organic staple ingredients<\/a> &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/categories\/natural-foods\/organic-food\/organic-grain-products\">grains<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/categories\/natural-foods\/organic-food\/organic-herbs\">herbs<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/categories\/natural-foods\/organic-food\/organic-oils\">oils<\/a>, and more &#8212; that \u00a0you&#8217;ll want to keep on hand<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: We have \u00a0a winner&#8230; Marie Hemming of La Jolla, California won the copy of The Cleaner Plate Club in our drawing&#8230; and hope she&#8217;ll let us know which recipe&nbsp;[ &hellip; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":16783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[1197,4776,19,1757,1758,485],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kids Don&#039;t Eat Vegetables? 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