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CMV: I should use methods similar to farmers from farmers markets to get my (future) children to eat fruits and vegetables.

Context: I am 23, and don't plan on having kids anytime soon, HOWEVER I was at a farmer's market pretty recently, and I noticed something that is probably well known, but was pretty interesting to me.

The farmers at the market will provide samples of their goods, but they are sneaky and sprinkle some sugar on fruit, or salt on tomatoes. This makes the fruit/tomato taste better than it normally would, and then you are more likely to buy fruit/veggies from them. Cool tactic, a bit deceitful, but whatever.

Some axioms:

1. A ton of habits are developed at a young age (I don't know the optimal age for this).
2. Diet is partly habitual.
3. First impressions of food are very important, especially at a young age.
4. Deceiving your child isn't inherently bad if it is, in the end, better for them.
5. I can fool a child into not noticing that I added something extra to their food.
6. Healthy eating is inherently good.
7. Fruits and vegetables are important parts of a healthy diet.

My plan:

At a young age (not sure what age exactly), where dietary habits start to form, I should feed my child healthy foods that are doped with something to make it taste a little bit better. This will develop a good impression of the food.

Over the course of a couple months (again not exactly certain of what timeline I should use) I will ween them off of whatever I was using to make the food taste better that was a bit unhealthy.

Desired end result:

My child develops good dietary habits, at the (IMO) small cost of eating a bit more unhealthy food at a young age.

  
Tips on changing my view:

1. You are unlikely to change my view using an ethics based argument in this specific case. If you think this makes me a bad future parent on the exclusive grounds that this is deceitful and i should not deceive my child, you are entitled to that opinion, and are entitled to make an argument from this angle. If you go this route, your argument will have to be incredibly strong, and will need to show me some kind of cause and effect. Simply stating that this makes me a bad person will not work.
2. Argue to me that my plan will not end up with the desired result. I am no child psychologist, hit me with different ending scenarios, show to me that these are likely to happen, or that my desired result is unlikely to happen. Provide evidence as to WHY these things will/won't happen.
3. Argue to me that my plan will achieve the desired result, but with some overlooked consequence. Am I underestimating the detriment to the child from the added sugar/salt at a young age? These kinds of things.
gpt
I‘ll just propose a different approach: 

Let your child(ren) help you with preparing the fruit and vegetables. Let them hold the carrot while you carefully cut the top off, let them peel the cucumber with safety peelers. Sneakily eat little bits of fruit and vegetables while preparing them, make a funny face - it will encourage your child to do so themselves.

When they‘re a bit older, teach them how to cut up veggies or fruit with a knife. Let them help you with cooking, let them taste the sauce and ask them for their opinion.

Will it take longer? Yeah, probably. Will it taste funny at times? Yeah probably. But: humans really, really like things they made themselves, or helped making.

And: make fruit and vegetables an always available snack. Let bananas or tomatoes sit on the countertop, always ready for a hungry child.

With that approach, you won‘t have to trick your child into liking vegetables or fruit - it will just always have been part of their life.