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How Can You be Sure Your Children are
Getting the Nutrition They Need
Most
parents would worry that if they keep their children from eating those
fatty foods that they love, and only offer vegetables, that the
children will starve, or have nutritional deficiencies. These
parents feel that the kids will just not eat the food. If you
think about it this way, how much nutrients are they receiving from the
fatty, processed foods now? If their diet consists of French
fries, mashed potatoes, apple sauce, chocolate pudding, and maybe
chicken fingers, how could it be worse if you only offer fruits and
vegetables? Sure, maybe they will demand to have the foods
they
like, and not eat. They will eventually get hungry and if you
keep offering fruits and vegetables and do not give in, you will see
that they will begin to enjoy it, especially if they see everyone else
in the family eating healthier.
Incorporate bean soups, such as
yummy lentil soup and if that doesn’t work make your lentil soup into a
“lentil burger”. You may have to gradually change their
eating
styles. Try making fresh bean and/or vegetable soups with
some
cheese sprinkled on it. Make sure it is tasty, and not too
spicy. Make homemade pancakes with wheat and only sweeten it
with
pure raw honey. Make fruit shakes and throw in a carrot or
romaine lettuce. Make tasty salads with homemade dressings….and also
make faces out of the tomatoes and cucumbers and carrots.
Make
tasty salmon and have them try it.
There are so many
possibilities and recipes that you can try. Do not give up on
your child because they have shown a dislike for a vegetable or
fruit. Just eat it around them and watch them ask you for a
piece. Keep offering it to them at dinnertime and ask them to
eat
a couple of bites.
If children eat plenty of fruits and
green leafy vegetables, they are also getting their calcium
requirements. But you could also include some almond milk or
rice
milk if you want.
The focus is to keep introducing them to new
foods so that they develop a taste for natural foods that we as humans
were meant to eat...
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