Any tips for getting my teens to eat healthier
while I'm at work this summer?
Stock the kitchen with healthy, easy-to-eat foods
that your kids like, say nutritionists with the USDA/ARS
Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College
of Medicine. They offer these tips:
- Let kids help shop for healthy mid-day meal and
snack foods.
- Stock the refrigerator with individual cartons
of 100 percent fruit juice and small cans of fruit with
pop-top lids, cut-up fruit, and pre-cut vegetables partnered
with a favorite dip. Freeze cartons of 100 percent
fruit juice to serve as "pops," or freeze grapes and
slices of bananas for bite-size treats.
- Keep healthy, crunchy snacks on hand, such as pretzels,
breadsticks, whole-wheat crackers, ready-to-eat cereals,
baked "chips," and low-fat microwave popcorn.
- Think grab 'n' go for lunchtime fixin's.
Stock whole wheat bread and low-fat deli meats and peanut
butter for sandwiches; flour tortillas and low-fat cheeses
for microwavable quesadillas; ready-to-eat salad mixes
and pre-cooked chicken breasts for salads; and low-fat
yogurt and granola for topping off fruit.
- Don't forget the beverages. Healthy thirst
quenchers include 100 percent fruit juice, bottled water,
low-fat milk, and frozen fruit juice "cubes" to float
in mineral water.
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