Make Mealtime Colorful
Eating colorful meals isn’t just fun for kids; it’s also healthy. You can get around kids' aversion to vegetables by starting them off on a healthy diet early and making mealtime fun. Bento box lunches are a great way to incorporate food items that kids may otherwise shy away from in creative, cute ways, and introducing healthy snacks at a young age will encourage kids to bypass fast-food lines or junky snacks in favor of grabbing a banana or bowl of grapes and passing on fries in favor of fresh-steamed broccoli.
Breakfast: The Most Important Meal of the Day
Enforcing regular mealtimes and snacks early in childhood can increase the likelihood that your kids will keep their good meal habits with them when they get older. And of all of those meals, breakfast is proven to be the most important. A healthy, low-fat breakfast not only gives kids the boost to jump start their mental and physical energy for the day, but it has also been shown to help with weight maintenance and lowering risks of chronic illnesses. A study by Harvard Medical School shows that skipping breakfast can quadruple your chances of becoming obese, and high-fiber content in healthy breakfast cereals can help reduce the risks of heart disease and diabetes, among others.