| Childhood is where all of our eating habits are formed. | | | | Planning a Healthy Eating For Kids Menu: |
| Healthy eating for kids IS the watch-word for this | | | | 1.Your children should like what they are asked to eat! |
| period of our children's lives! | | | | What good is a nutritious balanced meal if your children |
| The things that you feed your children, will, in later life, | | | | just snub their noses at it? |
| contribute to whether they end up being a couch | | | | 2.Make sure there is plenty of protein in each meal |
| potato, or they will continue to stay healthy, so proper | | | | Even if you and your children have a vegetarian diet |
| planning MUST be part of your everyday thought | | | | instead of a traditional one, ensure that in your healthy |
| process. | | | | kids plan you have plenty of variety of protein. (Who |
| How to put together a Healthy Eating For Kids plan: | | | | wants to eat, say, Chicken every day?) |
| 1.Everyone needs a good mix of Vitamins & Nutrients | | | | 3.Fruit and vegetables are all part of healthy eating for |
| and the levels (balance) of these change as we go | | | | kids. |
| through life. | | | | A lot of kids don't like them! Try putting them in a |
| 2.Variety as far as a balanced diet is of paramount | | | | blender! A smoothie might just fit into your new |
| importance. | | | | Healthy Eating For Kids plan! |
| Obesity in children is becoming a growing concern here | | | | 4.Oily Fish has essential fatty acids. They are |
| in the good ol' USA and other parts of the western | | | | necessary. |
| world. Healthy Eating For Kids! should be our battle cry | | | | Tuna Casserole! Baked Salmon! Even canned fish is a |
| to combat this because 'civilized' does not mean that | | | | very good source of this very important part of the |
| we have to accept unhealthy kids. | | | | Healthy Eating For Kids program that must be a new |
| So, physical exercise is a vital part of our healthy | | | | part of you and your family's life! |
| eating for kids plan: | | | | 5.Healthy snacks are all part of this plan, as well! |
| 1.Instead of driving your kids somewhere, Walk if at all | | | | Finally, don't make it one rule for your family and |
| possible! | | | | another for yourself. You need to keep yourself |
| 2.(It will help YOU, as well!) | | | | healthy as well as your children. |