All Entries in the "Eating" Category

Helping Kids Make Healthy Eating Choices

As kids spend more time at home during the school break, they are likely to spend more time watching TV and playing video games – activities associated with lower physical activity levels and higher consumption of unhealthy food.
So, here are some tips to help your kids eat healthy this summer:

Keep healthy snacks visible and within [...]

Kids Sending The “Healthy Eating Is Cool” Message

There are obvious difficulties in making kids eat healthy; the reaction to peas and carrots has traditionally been ‘Yuck’ for a lot of kids. A lot of children do view veggies as boring and unappetizing, which is why getting them to eat healthy is such as challenge.
One of the ways in which parents can help [...]

Jamie Oliver Helping American Kids Make Smart Choices

Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution airs on Fridays, 9 p.m. on ABC and anyone who has seen the show probably felt the passion that the man has to transform the way America and particularly American kids eat.
And so passionate, Jamie Oliver plans to use his own money to bring about change in his native Britain. Reportedly [...]

Tips For Brown Paper Bag Lunches For Your Child

It is a challenge to turn out a brown paper bag lunch that satisfies both you and your child; one that you think is healthy and nutritious enough and one that your child is also happy to eat and not trade in, for less nutritious junk, or worse perhaps [...]

3 Easy Tips For Your Child To Love Vegetables

Vegetables will never make it to the top of your child’s favorite food list. They see vegetables as unappetizing and not tasty at all.
However, as parents we all know that vegetables should be a part of our child’s diet.
Vegetables are excellent sources of essential vitamins and minerals needed by our kids to [...]

Five Ways To Shake Up Your Kids’ Lunch

Kids get bored with food and refuse to eat, just like adults do.
But while most of us over the age of eighteen can navigate past our epicurean dilemma, a child’s boredom usually manifests in a singular manner: the refusal to eat what’s given to him.
In their parents’ presence, a child can be cajoled, tricked, or [...]

Clean Plate Policy: Not Always The Best Policy

In many homes, parents enforce a Clean Plate Policy, meaning that what is on your plate has to be finished, there is to be no wasting of food. It is an extension of the premise: Waste not Want not.
Fair enough at one level, that you are teaching your children the value of food [...]

Tips To Deal With The Child That Just Won’t Eat!

You have just spent time and effort preparing a delicious, nutritious meal for your child and the child turns up their nose at your efforts.
It can be irritating, it can be frustrating, and it can be worrying because you don’t know what will happen if your child does not eat enough.
Your [...]

Feeding Your Child’s Brain: Omega 3 Fatty Acids And Your Child

If you could give your child a single food that could help them be smarter, healthier, and better behaved, would you do it?
Of course you would! The good news is that you can do just that when you make sure your child is getting enough Omega 3 fatty acids.
These fatty acids [...]

Dealing With Food Likes And Dislikes

Within most families there is usually someone who is difficult to please at the dinner table, a fussy eater can be quite a challenge.
For any parent it is vital to know that firstly it is not anyone’s fault and secondly that worrying just will not help.
In most cases the child will grow [...]