Healthy eating for your child

Healthy eating for your child

As a parents, it can be frustrating to get your child to eat certain foods. The young palette does not often appreciate new colors, tastes and textures in food. However, if children learn good eating habits early in life, they can continue to make healthy decisions throughout their lives!

Every child is different. Some eat satisfied three meals a day, filled with fruit and vegetables, while others eat many small portions and are extremely picky. There is no "right" method of how your child eats as long as it increases and develops with suitable measures. However, it is important to continue to offer your child a large selection of food, even if it is extremely picky what it is in the mouth. In this way, your child's weekly diet is rounded off, even if it has no balanced diet on certain days. Remember that as long as healthy decisions are modeled by the parents and continuously offered to the child (without pressure), the child will finally try them out!

Here are some tips to make sure that your child is fed sufficiently:

- Feed your child with a variety of fruit and vegetables. Add foods that have different colors for nutritional physiological and aesthetic reasons.

- they offer a variety of fruit and vegetables at a young age. This helps the child to build healthy eating habits at an early stage

- model healthy eating habits. Children often want to eat whatever the parents eat, so make sure it is nutritious!

- Put fruit and vegetables in your child's favorite dishes. For example, a noodle sauce that is rich in rolled vegetables, or add to a sandwich cucumber and sprout.

An important step for a healthy diet is to reduce the amount of processed foods in your child's diet. Books, sweets and other packaged snacks contain large amounts of sugar and artificial flavors or colors. Even fruit drinks belong to the same unhealthy category! Processed foods contain a high calorie content without much nutritional value. Not only that, but all chemicals in these foods can lead to hyperactivity, restlessness, low attention span and obesity in children. Parents often notice that general physical and mental health improves considerably as soon as processed foods are taken from their child's diet.

Here are some tips on eating of whole food:

- Avoid processed / sugar -containing snacks: fries, cookies, donuts, sweets, etc.

- 100% fruit juice instead of sugar -containing drinks (soda, iced tea, fruit drinks, etc.)

- oven potato instead of french fries

- Use whole grain wheat instead of white bread / pasta / flour

- oatmeal instead of sugar -containing breakfast cereals

- remnants of chicken or turkey meat instead of processed cold cuts

-breaded chicken breast strip instead of chicken nuggets
bought in the shop
- popcorn from the air instead of fries

- ice cream on the stem made of 100% pure fruit juice

- Fresh fruits and vegetables as snacks: apples, bananas, berries, grapes, celery, carrots, cauliflower, etc.