Top 12 List for Getting Kids to Eat Healthy

12 Easy Tips to Get Kids to WANT to Eat Healthy

1. The child won’t get near fruits at all? Make shakes or cakes out of them (for example: Banana shake).
2. Instead of sodas, serve natural fruity juices (add more and more water each time - more water means less sugar).
3. It’s healthier to eat a fruit than to drink fruit juices.
4. Prepare a “trail mix”: a mix of dried fruits and nuts. Take it with you when you’re going to the park or on trips. You can add healthy cereals to the mix.
5. Include the kids in the food making process. For example, let the kids chose the fruits in the supermarket while shopping, and make a fruit salad with them when you get back home.
6. Hide the vegetables: make a veggie puree, put them in your omelet, on your pizza, add them to your lasagne, make a carrot cake, grind them into a pasta sauce…
7. Kids prefer a fresh grated carrot on a boiled carrot.
8. Serve fried Chinese style veggies or vegetable sticks with yogurt dip on the side.
9. Share the experience of growing your own veggies together - you don’t even need a garden, a porch is great for this purpose.
10. Make eating time a good experience: don’t eat in front of the TV or the computer.
11. Arrange pieces of veggies creatively on the plate: a shape of a face should do the work.
12. Buy the kids some cooking books. Even though most of them contain junk food recipes, they teach various cooking methods.