17th June Eat Your Vegetables Day

The goal of  a day such as this is to have a vegetable with every meal, and to also have a vegetable as a snack during the day.

If you’re a parent, you might want to get your kids, particularly fussy-eater ones who baulk at their vegetables to help with preparing, cooking or buying some vegetables or even  doing some craft using food. 

Read Off to Market  by Alice Oehr before you make a shopping list.

Read Eating the Alphabet  or Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert or a recipe book like Every Color Soup before you cook.

Look at books such as The Potato People , I Spy Food, and One Potato  and then have some fun with food.

There are so many picture books now where foods are heroes and personified that reading about vegetables with children is easy. Have you seen the Supertato books by Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet, Runaway Pea by Kjartan Poskitt and Alex Wilmore, Dinosaur Juniors by Rob Biddulph, Vegetables in Underwear by Jared Chapman, the Peas Series by Keith Baker, Rot by Ben Clanton or the Food Group books by Jory John and Pete Oswald. In these books vegetables have fun! 

There are two series for beginning readers to read  themselves too... Cookie and Broccoli and Wedgieman. 

If you are looking for other books about vegetables look here.