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Healthy Eating for Kids – Get your kids to eat healthy
It's important to start eating healthy early. If you leave the mission of getting your children to eat healthy too late, it will be harder to change the habits you have learned. On the other hand, if you have always insisted on having healthy eating children in your household, then you will have a much easier time keeping your children on the straight and narrow path of healthy eating. Start by making sure you have healthy foods in your fridge and pantry. You can't teach your children healthy eating if they are addicted to sweets, chocolate and carbonated...
Healthy Eating for Kids – Get your kids to eat healthy
It's important to start eating healthy early. If you leave the mission of getting your children to eat healthy too late, it will be harder to change the habits you have learned. On the other hand, if you have always insisted on having healthy eating children in your household, then you will have a much easier time keeping your children on the straight and narrow path of healthy eating.
Start by making sure you have healthy foods in your fridge and pantry. You can't teach your children healthy eating if they are surrounded by sweets, chocolate and carbonated drinks. Remember that children are a perceptive bunch and will quickly notice any discrepancy between what you say and what you do.
Let your children help you choose fruits and vegetables at the supermarket or grocery store. The feeling of involvement is important. After all, if your children have helped choose the food they eat, they will feel more included and more likely to want to eat it. Even if you simply don't want to eat something, including it in your purchasing decision will at least save you from wasting food later.
Encourage your children to drink plenty of water. Low-fat milk is also good. And fruit juice is healthy, but can increase your calorie balance if you drink too much of it. If your kids do get a craving for freshly squeezed orange juice, buy one of the inexpensive hand presses and let them squeeze their own juice. This will start a healthy eating habit for your children and also slow down the rate at which they drink the juice - squeezing a liter of juice by hand will take a long time!
Eating together regularly as a family is a great way to raise children with a healthy diet. The fact that you all sit down to eat together instead of grabbing a quick snack on the way to somewhere else makes mealtimes a special occasion. This will almost certainly cause you to plan more carefully what your family eats. And once you start thinking about food, you'll notice that the whole family starts eating healthier.