| Healthy children are not necessarily the product of a | | | | lettuce, chop the celery or cut tomatoes into tiny |
| family who has a lot to eat. More than anything else, | | | | portions and add them to sandwiches, soups or |
| healthy kids are the result of healthy food choices | | | | whatever meal you are serving. Big slices of tomatoes |
| within the household. | | | | and whole leaves of vegetables will likely scare them |
| But we all know that kids do not always like healthy | | | | away. |
| food; they would much prefer chocolates, lollies, | | | | <strong>4. Serve vegetable chowders in colorful |
| potato chips and French fries. Nothing wrong with | | | | and fun containers</strong>. Children will likely eat |
| these options if kids only have them occasionally. | | | | them if you put the soup in bowls with cartoon |
| To convince your kids to eat healthy, here are some | | | | characters or kiddie bowls shaped like animals. The |
| healthy snack ideas that might help. | | | | funny thing is, you can serve them the same food |
| <strong>1. Fruits</strong>. Apples, bananas, | | | | but they will respond in a different way when you |
| strawberries, oranges, etc. Generally, children are not | | | | change the container. |
| averse to eating fruits. It's just that they like burgers | | | | <strong>5. Oatmeal cookies baked with the |
| and chocolates more. You can make fruit servings | | | | children's help</strong>. They would surely prefer |
| more attractive to get kids to eat them; make fruit | | | | chocolate cookies over oatmeal ones, but if you ask |
| smoothies or top a cup of strawberries with whipped | | | | them to help in baking the cookies, they would likely |
| cream and children will look at them in a different | | | | eat them without complaint. The idea of messing the |
| way. | | | | kitchen will make them eager to sample the end |
| <strong>2. Use dips with vegetables</strong>. | | | | product. |
| You can actually make them eat vegetables like | | | | <strong>6. Vegetarian pizza</strong>. Kids |
| carrot or celery sticks if you serve them with dips. | | | | love pizza. It doesn't matter what's on it as long as it |
| Hummus, bean or ranch dips are your best options. | | | | looks like pizza. You can make mini pizzas topped with |
| It's not actually the taste of dips they like, but the idea | | | | various chopped vegetables; a bit of meat, like a |
| of having something where they can dunk their food. | | | | sprinkle of bacon bits, and low-fat cheese. |
| Kids! | | | | To promote healthy eating for kids in your household, |
| <strong>3. Add veggie ingredients, but make them | | | | make snacks attractive to children. The first step is |
| fade into the background</strong>. Shred the | | | | to grab their attention and get going from there. |