…family. Encourage your family to eat slowly. Provide delicious, healthful meals and snacks. Plan for snacks. Discourage eating meals or snacks while watching TV. Make sure your child’s meals outside…
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…our children’s brain development. Add them to your child’s meals, snacks, and smoothies to enhance academic performance, improve memory, and generally encourage better brain health. These colorful recipes are rich…
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…healthier eating for school age children, there are a few questions that always come up. The first is snacking – should kids or shouldn’t they? What is a healthy snack?…
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Use your favorite melon to personalize this delicious soup! If you like gazpacho, this recipe is worth a try. The photo shows a soup made with cantaloupe, but you could…
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…serving ourselves. We project our desires onto their plate; and, in my experience, overloading a child’s plate with food overwhelms them. On more than one occasion I’ve seen a child…
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…both arguments, actually. Some children eat a very limited diet, and if my child was one of those kids I would be doing what I could to pack nutrients into…
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…meals and snacks. Make eating times pleasant. Step-by-step, show your child by example how to behave at family mealtime. Be considerate of your child’s lack of food experience without catering…
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I’ve written about snacking a few times including how to snack when you travel and fun snacks that engage kids. It’s easy for me to write about snacks because I…
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