I do give my daughter a vitamin every day, but not as a substitute for vegetables. I took a nutrition course last semester, and it's really hard to work in all of the vitamins you need every day! At our 18-month check-up the doctor told me to give her a Flinstone's vitamin...we used to cut it in half to make it easier to eat, but now my daughter is 2 years old (24-1/2 months) and she's been chewing it whole for about 2 months. I got the vitamins without iron because you can't overdose...anything not used by the body will be peed out. My aunt (a pharmacist) told me it was okay to give her the whole vitamin at 18 months, as long as it didn't contain iron. I think the Flinstone bottle says they're for ages 2 and up, so just ask your doctor if he/she agrees that it's okay to give them earlier.Just don't forget to keep offering her vegetables, and try them in different ways. For example, my daughter will only eat green beans cold from a can or slightly warmed (she won't touch fresh ones!), but hates any other canned vegetable. I'll often give her cooked carrots or broccoli while I'm making dinner...she likes having a "snack" and is getting hungry by then. Plus, you'd be surprised at what kids like...for example, I don't particularly like beets but she'll eat them up! She also LOVES broccoli and asparagus, 2 veggies that kids "traditionally" hate! Also, some fruits have ingredients found in vegetables (ex. watermelon and tomatoes both have lycopene), and you can sneak vegetables into other foods she eats. If she loves carbs, try pureeing some carrots or squash, and mixing them into your spaghetti sauce. Parenting magazine also had recipes for putting vegetables into kid favorites in a recent issue...I haven't tried them yet, but they don't look bad! I'm sure you could find the recipes on their website. And since my daughter will only eat meat in the form of those Gerber meat sticks (aka. "hot dogs"), I get the new ones with carrots. She doesn't notice any difference.If you offer vegetables often enough, and eat them yourself in front of her, she'll eventually come around. If you don't like veggies, she's not going to want them, either. Sometimes it's just a matter of not wanting to eat the vegetables from her own plate...if she wants to eat mine, I'll let her because in a kid's mind, mommy's stuff is just better (even if it's the same!)

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