All About Nutrition & Children

Ensuring that your child is receiving a healthy, balanced diet is a battle for ever parent, even today when fun meals are everywhere. However there are things that can be done to motivate children to eat healthy . The younger you start with healthy habits, the faster children will acquire their tastes in the that direction.

The Limitations

Choosing to buy only foods that are really healthy, you and your children can pick favourite foods with healthy choices.

Tasty Fruits

When we limit our children’s fruit choice’s to apples, bananas, grapes and oranges we limit the nutritution they could be getting. Children also enjoy peaches, tangerines, cherries, raspberries , blackberries, blueberries and strawberries, pears, plumbs, watermelons and pineapples. You can always add fruits such as these to healthy breakfast cereals. Instead of offering your child toast made from white flour, offer bran type breads. If your child likes pancakes, always serve whole wheat grain pancakes.

You could also offer children some finger foods such as raw vegetables and carrots.

The Food Industry

We are competing against the major fun-time meal advertising that Big Industry sells to kids. There are constant advertisements on children’s TV for unhealthy foods that contain too much salt and sugar. Children of a pre-school age adore fun-type foods that are shaped into something, for example a face, snowman, or an animal. Big food industries do it with their fun bright meals so why shouldn’t we as parents? Whole-grain pancakes can be shaped like a face or animal by using fruit pieces such as berries. Why not serve corn on the cob like a rocket-ship?

Hiding Goodness Into Foods

If your child is too wise for your tricks, bee a bit sneeky! sneak the healthy food into other foods. Bake a carrot cake or add finely shaved vegetables to anything. Dried fruit is high in sugar and fibre and should be treated like candy and sweets. Fruit and vegetables can be hid into smoothies and juices via a high speed blender.

Multivitamin Time!

To ensure that your child is receiving the necessary amounts of vitamins, give them an approved multi-vitamin supplement that is safe for children. Do not rely on these instead of providing your child with a healthy balanced diet. They should only be used as a safety net. Aim for your child to eat a variety of fruit and vegetables, along with lean proteins and complex carbohydrates.

Pre-school children and toddlers can be very picky eaters. However, their tastes change as they grow and they should soon be eating the same as the rest of the family. Its all about education and gentle persuasion, making mealtimes a fun, learning experience not only for your child but maybe even for us parents as well.

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