| Nutritionists and the USDA Food Pyramid
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| | with a tasty dip your children have
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| all provide nutritional guidelines that
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| | helped you prepare.
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| suggest that offering a variety of
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| | Other ways to get rainbow foods into your
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| nourishing foods to your children will
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| | kids' diet:
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| help insure that they eat a healthy diet.
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| | *Top breakfast cereals with cut-up banana
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| In fact, they state that by choosing
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| | or strawberries.
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| foods from the range of colors found in
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| | *Make yummy smoothies with frozen fruit
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| the rainbow you can generally obtain most
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| | and yogurt. Toss in a bit of kale for
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| of the necessary vitamins and minerals
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| | extra health (and your kids won't even
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| recommended for a healthy diet.
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| | notice!)
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| "Rainbow" colored foods are easily found
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| | *Mix chopped fruit with jello.
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| in the fruits and vegetables that are
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| | *Start a vegetable garden. Children love
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| available in our grocery stores
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| | eating what they've grown themselves!
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| throughout the year. When you offer your
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| | How do you help your kids to try new
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| kids an abundance of healthy food choices
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| | foods when introducing healthy food
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| like those in the "food rainbow," while
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| | choices? According to Contemporary
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| limiting their access to less nutritious
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| | Pediatrics, a new food needs to be served
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| pre-packaged "snack" goodies, you can
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| | to children about ten times before most
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| feel reassured they are eating wholesome
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| | of them will accept it! Try introducing
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| foods.
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| | new foods at mealtimes, alongside some of
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| Great rainbow foods include:
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| | their favorite foods. So when you serve
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| *Bananas
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| | a yummy spaghetti dinner, add a roasted
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| *Summer squash
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| | vegetable medley on the side. The good
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| *Strawberries
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| | news is that most children will
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| *Oranges
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| | eventually try it. Kids also say they are
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| *Carrots
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| | more likely to give a new food a try when
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| *Sweet potatoes
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| | they see their siblings or parents eat
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| *Tomatoes
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| | it.
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| *Red peppers
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| | That's right; you need to eat healthy
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| *Beets
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| | foods, too! Your food choices are a very
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| *Grapes
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| | important opportunity, so teach your
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| *Blueberries
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| | children by setting a good example.
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| *Blackberries
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| | Offer lots of good-tasting, healthy
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| *Spinach
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| | choices at snack and mealtimes and you
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| *Kale
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| | will encourage your kids to make healthy
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| You may be surprised how easy it is to
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| | eating part of their life habits. If you
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| get your children to eat healthy food.
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| | teach your children to make the right
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| We suggest you always have fresh fruit
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| | choices "most of the time," when they are
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| accessible to your kids at all times.
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| | away from you it is more likely that they
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| You may also want to give your children
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| | will make healthy choices, too.
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| "carte blanche" to snack on fruit
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| | So remember to put a little color in
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| anytime, without asking permission. At
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| | their diet!
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| snacktime, cut up vegetables and serve
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