healthy eating habits

Encourage healthy eating habits in your child life

Whether they’re preschoolers or a teen, children naturally develop a  preference for the meal they like and enjoy most. If you wanted to encourage healthy eating habits, then the challenge is to make food more nutritious tastier, and appealing so that it looks yummy.

Focus on overall diet rather than specific foods

A kid should eat more whole, minimally outside or processed food—children should eat food that is as close to its natural form as possible—and less outside packaged or processed food.

Be a role model

Childhood is a crucial phase for learning and adding as well as building some good habits. If you are having potato chips or anything unhealthy then don’t expect your child that he or she will eat homely food or green vegetables. If you want to teach them first you have to behave accordingly so that they will learn by observing you.

Cover up the taste of healthier foods

Adding some colorful vegetables to a pizza, for example, or mash carrots up with mashed potato, or add a sweet dip to slices of apple. Doing these things will not only cover up to look more appealing but also increase its nutritional value.

Cook more meals at home

Restaurant food and outside meals have more added sugar and unhealthy fat so cooking at home can have a healthy and huge impact on your kids’ health. Parents want everything best for their kids either food or a comfortable dress from school to toys they want everything best at their level. So if you want to arise them healthy prepare good and healthy food according to their choice. If you will prepare their food a little bit decorative tasty and healthy they will like it. Try to add more vegetables and prepare them according to their taste.

Get kids involved 

Involvement in shopping for groceries and preparing meals. You can teach them about different kinds of foods and what are their nutritional values and how to read food labels. They will learn gradually under observation and slowly they will build their own choice and preferences.

Make healthy snacks available

Keeping plenty of fruit, healthy beverages, vegetables and (water, milk, pure fruit juice), or something healthy and tasty on hand so kids avoid unhealthy snacks like cold drinks, chips, and cookies.

Limit portion sizes

Don’t insist your kid to cleans the plate, and finish everything if they don’t want to eat never use food as a reward or bribe. Try to give them a small portion if they will like the food they will ask you again.

Try something innovative

Kids are fun-loving they want everything in a play-way method. We can make everything interesting even a chapatti can be in a star shape or oval shape or you can put a smiley with sauce on Maggie or a pizza topping to make a meal more interesting. Once they understand this food is more interesting as well as tasty you as a mother or any parent just love the way they enjoy.

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