Articles tagged with: vegetables
Over in the Grocery Tips section of our blog, we published a list of 25 Must-haves for Healthy Meals on a Whim. If you’re one of those people who can’t do anything around their household without a user manual, fine, here is what you do with the 25 things we told you to buy:
Extra tip: And, as always, if you involve your kids in preparing…
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You open the fridge, you close the fridge. You poke your head in the pantry. Nothing. Nothing inspires you to pull off a decent healthy meal for your kids (who, of course, are already waiting in the wings hungry, because you had so many other things to do, you simply couldn’t think ahead about what’s for dinner. That’s just what happens to busy parents. All the time).
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In short, the answer is, “no.”
For one thing, unless you resort to really drastic measures — such as pinching your kids’s nose closed and them shoveling in some food when he starts gasping for air (a tactic I’ve considered but which I don’t recommend) — there aren’t any reliable techniques for making a kid eat something.
For sure, parents have lots of subtle — “Ummm, I love this…
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Getting kids to eat vegetables is clearly a big challenge for many parents. You can find a million suggestions on forums and blogs about getting your kid to eat those veggies. One idea that keeps popping up on most of the sites is to give your child a choice about what they want to eat. We all like choice, and a kid is no exception. The theory is, a child
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I was walking through the grocery store the other day and I realized that some veggies and fruit have really cool names. Dinosaur kale seemed like a vegetable kids would surely want to gobble up, right? And who wouldn’t be curious what UFO peaches must taste like. I wondered if catchy veggie names can win kids over or if a veggie is a veggie is a veggie to a picky…
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Every week, I go into a local elementary school and help students learn to read. The kids love it. They love a good story with good characters. I have read with kids who just want to read the same story over and over again because they love a book THAT much. We all know children can be very influenced by what they see and what they read, so how about…
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“Jason won’t eat his vegetables!” Day in and day out, we worry about how to get our kids to eat well for proper nourishment and good health. We may become desperate, bribing our kids with things like M&M’s for every bite of vegetables they take, just to get them to eat something nutritious! Don’t get down on yourself or feel like a failure as a parent if you have resorted…
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Carbohydrates
Carbohydrates are our energy providers. They are mainly found in foods like bread, cereals, pasta, potatoes and rice.
Protein
Your child’s growing body needs protein for nearly everything it does: to build muscles, make hair and skin, fight infections and provide oxygen to the blood. Meat, fish, turkey, chicken, eggs, milk, cheese, yogurt, and soy are all good sources of protein.
Fat
Fat is an important part of a…
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