Healthy Foods That Your Kids Will Love
by: Angela Tyler
Is getting your kids to eat healthy foods is a battle in your home? If so, you?ll love these tips that will make your kids happy and give you the satisfaction of knowing you are feeding them foods that are good for them.
Start the Day Right
You can give your kids a delicious, healthy breakfast by getting rid of the ready to eat cereals and pastries and replacing them with bran pancakes and low-sugar syrup and/or fruit. Whole-wheat tortillas filled with fruit, scrambled eggs, or cheese and turkey bacon are delicious and your kids will have fun eating them, paying no attention to the fact that it is actually good for them.
Naturally Sweet
Most kids will ask for sweets such as candy and snack cakes. Instead of giving in to the pressure, give your kids applesauce and homemade oatmeal cookies prepared with a sugar substitute or honey rather than white sugar. Fruit snacks and dried fruit roll ups made from 100 percent fruit are great ideas for kids.
Replace fruit drinks and sodas with flavored tonic water and fresh fruit juice. Drink boxes containing pure fruit juice are relatively inexpensive and kids love the individual boxes, complete with straws.
Make it Fun
The secret is in the presentation. Arrange an assortment of healthy foods in a fun way on your child's plate. You can include smiley faces made from raisins or nuts and choose foods that are colorful. Kids will eat most things if they are presented in a unique design that makes eating fun.
Healthy Dinner
Dinnertime can include homemade pizza topped with cheese and vegetables, or soft tacos made with shredded chicken and cheese. Chicken strips prepared in the oven are always a hit and you could include an assortment of fresh vegetables and whole-grain breads. Fish sticks are relatively healthy if you prepare them in the oven rather than fried. Cheese and legumes are healthy choices.
It's not difficult to get kids to eat healthy foods. It just takes a little extra thought and planning. Start by using our tips and you may be surprised to see what your child will eat.
About The Author
Angela Tyler Would you rather spend time doing the things you love rather than being stuck in the kitchen? http://www.freequickrecipes.com has quick recipes for mothers... and others. And, if you are looking for fun exercise videos for your kids, don't miss http://www.funexercisevideos.com.
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Every person is created unique, with different characteristics, skills, and abilities. These gifts are then to be used to minister to, and bless other people.
When Jesus said, "Ask the Father anything in My name and He will give it to you" (John 16:23), He did not intend for this to be a license to treat God as some cosmic bell-boy who should come and cater to our every whim.
We cannot be blessed without first being a blessing. We are to keep God first in our lives, then people second, and then ourselves last. Only in this order can we be a blessing and be blessed.
When Jesus said, "Ask the Father anything in My name," He meant that you should ask according to His will. Unless you ask according to His will your prayers will be ineffective. James 4:3 says, "You ask and do not receive because you ask amiss, that you may consume it upon your own lusts."
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Ingredients:
1 cup plain flavored fat free yogurt
? cup crushed ice
1 cup unsweetened apple juice
? cup watermelon, cut into small cubes
? cup strawberries cut into halves
? cup mango, cut into small cubes
? cup peaches, cut into small cubes
1 tsp. vanilla extract
? cup honey
? cup almonds, crushed
Toppings:
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To Make:
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Ingredients:
1 cup plain flavored fat free yogurt
? cup crushed ice
1 cup unsweetened apple juice
? cup watermelon, cut into small cubes
? cup strawberries cut into halves
? cup mango, cut into small cubes
? cup peaches, cut into small cubes
1 tsp. vanilla extract
? cup honey
? cup almonds, crushed
Toppings:
Fat free cool whip
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To Make:
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