It doesn’t matter how much your baby tolerates veggies during those initial months of weaning, as soon as they hit the toddler years they all seem to be gripped by this sudden urge to propel anything green onto the floor...

Or, if you’re really lucky, right into your face.

This dinner-time drama is not exactly ideal when you’re trying to encourage a healthy balanced diet. So what’s a burnt out parent who simply wants their kid to eat anything other than beige to do?

Paediatrician Dr Lauren Hughes shared some helpful advice she’d received from a fellow parent – and it all starts in those first few months of weaning.

“Put parsley on everything starting when they’re young so........

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