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Monday, October 22, 2012

Things My Kids Eat

How do you get kids on board with healthy eating?  
  1. Set the example
  2. Give good, solid reasons as to why certain foods are good for us and what they do to the body
  3. Give good, solid reasons as to why certain foods are not good for us and what they do to the body
  4. Provide good tasting, eye pleasing, foods that they already like.  Build on pre-existing favorites such as cherry tomatoes, cut up raw carrots, and the like.
  5. Slowly introduce new flavors and tastes and let them adapt at their pace


Breakfasts:
  • Cereals ( here )  with plant milk (we use unsweetened almond milk) 
  • Oatmeal with fruit and honey, cherry pie and ice cream oatmeal, apple pie oatmeal
  • overnight oatmeal, eaten raw, tastes like cold cereal 
  • Smoothies (green smoothies with raw oatmeal makes a thick, stick-with-you, smoothie)
  • Banana Bread here  or the Health Nut Cookie here


Lunches:
  • His banana peanut butter roll up creation  here
  • Bean burrito (whole wheat tortilla, fat free refried beans)
  • Peanut Butter & Honey on whole wheat bread
  • Whole wheat pasta with tomato sauce
  • Whole grain pizza crust with tomato sauce
  • Whole grain bread, lettuce, tomatoes, cabbage, with avocado & mustard

Dinner:

  • Beans & Rice
  • Beans & Corn
  • Beans & Tortillas (Bean Burrito)
  • Beans & Tortilla chips (Corn tortillas, baked in oven or microwave)
  • Sometimes soup - but rarely
  • and,
  • anything on the Breakfast or Lunch list.  


Snacks:

We're not big on snacks usually, but he will occasionally want something before bed.  In those cases, we have the banana bread or healthy cookies or else just a piece of fruit.  

Desserts:
  • See above about banana breads and healthy cookies! 
  • Also, we do banana "ice cream" with frozen bananas, strawberries, vanilla, almond milk.  Or with cocoa powder for chocolate "ice cream"


How he gets his G-BOMBS:

Smoothies (greens, berries, seeds (chia))
Beans (onions & mushrooms get pureed into the beans)

Obviously, these two foods (smoothies & beans) are the most important things he eats, so we try to always squeeze them in somewhere during the day.  

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