Little By Little Is The Key To Your Kids Eating Great Healthy Food!

Introducing your child gradually to healthy eating is a great path to a balanced diet for your child. More importantly, this way you will make sure that the lessons you are teaching them extend into their adult lives. If you have a child that is "forced" into healthy eating, meal times become a battle and at the first opportunity they will choose unhealthy options.

If you usually give your child sandwiches for lunch, try introducing whole meal bread first. If this is met with an adverse reaction, try making a sandwich with one slice brown and another slice white. Next, try and keep the fillings that you would have used before but switch to a tortilla or whole meal pita bread. Bread has very low nutritional value but flat breads are the best variety and can be used as a bridge to healthy eating.

Just remember that if your child really hates something, do not force the issue too much. I am sure there will be another alternative that is more appealing to them. For example, if they won't eat apples, try a banana and so on. The key is step by step to make it natural for them to have a healthy lunch rather than try and incorporate everything at once! Force is the easiest way to get your child opposed to healthy food and create a barrier of negative associations within their mind.

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