Nutrition Tips

 

Teaching your child about healthy eating habits is a very important start in creating a healthy lifestyle. It is also sometimes a very big challenge. Here we provide ten tips for teaching your child good nutrition:

• Be a great role model.
• Keep healthy snacks within easy reach.
• Try to be as consistent as possible with meals and snacks.
• Fix foods the way kids like them.
• Encourage your child to try new foods.
• Have family meals as often as possible.
• Start working on 5 A Day first thing in the morning.
• Let your children help with meals.
• Use low-fat dips to spice up raw fruits and vegetables.
• Serve great tasting desserts- without the fat and calories.