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Healthy eating for kids

Healthy fruit selection, including apples, bananas and oranges.

The question is what makes a healthy and balanced diet for kids and how to make children stick to it. Now is the perfect time to teach your kids the value of healthy eating and how to emjoy a variety of foods.

Tips for getting kids to eat healthy

Close up of healthy red table grapes.

With all of the junk foods out there today, getting kids to eat healthy can be a trick. In fact, many kids associate the term “healthy food” with something yucky. However, this doesn’t mean that you can’t change your kids’ minds about healthy foods and get them to enjoy eating healthy. Below are some tips to help you out.

Healthy snacks for lunch boxes

Packing lunch boxes can be stressful, particularly if you leave it for the last minute as you're trying to head out the door and wrangle everyone into the car. Then there are all the choices: Do you fill it full of organic, nutritious stuff that your child may or may not eat? Do you fill it with items guaranteed to be consumed but not so healthy? And what about allergies... some schools are totally peanut-free, which leaves the old PBJ combo out in the cold.

Veggie adventures

Everyone knows that veggies are good for you, but how do you teach kids to actually LIKE the stuff? Well, it is possible. Here are a few pointers.

Sandwiches for kids and adults

No need to have always the same fillings in the lunch sandwich with these 25 sandwich ideas for kids and adults. Both practical and great tasting, these suggestion will inspire you to find even more combinations. Get a different sandwich every day of the month.

California Pizza Kitchen

Customize any California Pizza Kitchen specialty with healthy ingredients at home.

Causes of poor eating habits

Poor eating habits are not a one day thing. These habits build during a long period of time and for several reasons. Knowing the problem at the root of unhealthy eating habits will make easier the task of changing the eating patterns.

Changing current unhealthy habits

Imagine you have gone through your current family eating and cooking routine and found it lacking. Changing the current unhealthy eating habits for healthier ones is the right decision and you are determined to pull this off.

Be a healthy example for your kids

Children learn by imitation, so lead by example. First, kids love to do as parents do and it will be so much easier to teach them to choose healthy options if they see you. Second, kids are not easily fooled and healthy eating habits will not last if they see you doing just the opposite.

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