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5 Parenting Tips to Maintain a Healthy Diet for Children

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5 Parenting Tips to Maintain a Healthy Diet for Children (for the age group between 5 - 16 years) Serve a variety of vegetables, whether fresh, canned, frozen, or dry. Each week, try to include a variety of veggies, such as dark green, red, and orange vegetables, beans and peas, starchy vegetables, and others. Instead of fruit juice, encourage your youngster to eat a variety of fresh, canned, frozen, or dried fruits. If your child drinks juice, make sure it's 100% juice with no added sugars and restrict the amount he or she consumes. Look for canned fruit that is labeled as "light" or "packed in its own juice," indicating that it contains little or no added sugar. Keep in mind that a quarter cup of dried fruit is equivalent to one cup of fresh fruit. Dried fruits can add extra calories if consumed in excess. Provide foods with no added sugar or sugar alternatives. Sugars that have been refined (sucrose, glucose-fructose, white sugar), honey, molasses, syrups, an

Sample Healthy Meal Plan for Children

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  Sample Healthy Meal Plan for Children Sample healthy meal plan for growing children between the age of 5 – 12 years Sample healthy meal plan for growing children between the age of 2 – 5 years

5 Fun-filled Ways to Encourage Your Child to Eat

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5 Fun-filled Ways to Encourage Your Child to Eat ( You can choose any method) Developing a passion for food entails more than simply getting people to eat it. Try to get your kids involved in cooking, whether it's by watching Doraemon on TV, asking them to help you plan the menu for the week, or getting them to chop, peel, and mix it up in the kitchen. It may sound dirty (and it is), but getting kids to play with food might help them become more familiar with it and accept it. There are a lot of creative methods to get kids engaged with food, such as making edible paint, manufacturing food stamps, or conducting food taste tests or quizzes. We all know how important it is to read to our children, yet many of us may not consider reading to them about food. Because we know that familiarity leads to acceptance, stories and character bonding can assist in truly creating relationships around food, potentially reducing "fussy eating" or food avoidance. Once in a while, try some