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Can You Feed Your Children Raw Food
Every
mother wants the best for her child. You want your child to
look
healthy, grow proportionately, feel energized and have a great immune
system. So, why do most parents in America feed their
children
junk food by the time they start eating table food? Why do
most
restaurants serve French fries or macaroni and cheese for side orders
and not steamed broccoli? It is really a sad situation to
watch
young children who are obese. Even schools offer peanut
butter
and jelly or ice cream for lunch.
To ensure that your
child is eating correctly you must feed them plenty of fruits and
vegetables. But the trick is to make it delicious and
fun.
For instance, for breakfast, arrange a platter of fruit, oranges,
grapefruit, bananas, strawberries, blueberries, they will love
it! Make faces out of the fruit. Have them drink
only water
and no sugar 100% fruit juice that you juice yourself. Get
them
used to eating vegetables that are uncooked. Whenever they
get
hungry, offer small baby carrots, or celery, they will grow to love the
taste just the way it is. You can introduce a new vegetable
each
week and learn how to hide it into your food. For instance,
chop
up Portobello mushrooms in a chopper and add it to your pasta sauce and
watch them gobble it up, barely noticing the mushrooms. Make
blanched broccoli (plain) and eat that for dinner. If they
see
you eating healthy, they will learn early on to eat that way.
Do
not let them eat packaged foods, such as macaroni and cheese, or fried
chicken fingers, or anything fried for that matter. Make sure
that they eat vegetables at every meal and be careful when you go out
to eat.
Offer natural desserts that you have made at
home, such as homemade sorbet, or fruit smoothie, or peach cobbler pie
(all natural). Stay away from cakes, cookies, etc that have
preservatives and other unnatural flavorings. Make it
yourself
and offer it occasionally. You will find that they watch you
and
what you eat and if you incorporate a much healthier menu, so will
they.
The best part of raising your children to learn to
love fruits and vegetables is that you will notice that they will turn
down junk food when you are not around. At that point you
will
know that you have done your part in raising healthy adults...
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