Top 10 tips to make your kids eat more healthily

In today’s modern times parents are finding it harder and harder to ensure that their children are eating healthy and get that balanced diet that they deserve. One of the most important things has to be the 5 a day motto, but trying to get children to eat 5 fruit and vegetables a day is a lot easier said than done. It is also hard to find ways of squeezing these vegetables into their meals without them knowing or being able to taste them. Recent surveys have shown that children in the 21st century are eating higher levels of salt, saturated fat and sugar than the government recommended guide lines recommend. All these factors need to be thought about deeply to ensure that your children are getting all the nutrients that they need to ensure that they have optimum development.

So, in practical terms, what can parents do to ensure children develop healthy eating habits?

• Eat with your children

Eating with your children is a great way to ensure that they are eating what you want them to eat, and children also learn by good example, so if you are also eating the things that you want your children to eat, this shows them that’s ok and grown up to eat these certain foods.

A few key factors to remember and to help making tea time a more enjoyable time could be as simple as, setting your dining room tables and bring the family together round the table to talk about everyone’s events of the day. By doing things like this you are encouraging a routine into your children’s life and are also promoting home cooked meals to them which are usually more balanced set meal and this way you know exactly what they eating. All of these factors will influence better eating habits throughout your children’s life.

• Make the food that you cook as fun as possible

Try and make the meals you cook fun, colorful as possible to encourage your children to want to eat your meals. Dull, bland boring meals don’t look appetizing and therefore encourage people not to want to eat them. Try making your meals full of color and texture and this in turn will make your children more likely to want to eat the meals and most probably finish everything on their plate.

• How to insure your children are getting as many fruit and vegetables as possible

When cooking you evening meals consider trying to encounter at least two types of vegetables in your meals, and then for desert try to encounter adding fruit to your deserts. By doing this you are insuring that your children are eating at least 3 portions of fruit and vegetables per day meaning that your half way there. You can also try adding a piece of fruit to their lunchbox and if they eat that then that is four pieces per day that your children are having without even realizing it.

• Hide’ fruit and vegetables if necessary

Blend it into soups, chop it finely into lasagna and Bolognese, make strawberry ice cream. One of the latest trends of taken over has been smoothies and this is a very efficient way to give your children fruits without them knowing, which will cause less conduct between you and your children. I would recommend making your own as then you know exactly what is in it.

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