Top 10 tips to raise healthy eating kids

Understand parent’s role and kids’ role

• Parent’s role is to control what type of food and when to offer it

• Kids’ role is to decide what to eat and how much to eat

Be a good role model

• Do you think you are a good role model when it comes to healthy eating?

Don’t reward with food

• Offer hugs, praise and attention for good behaviour instead

Offer sweets occasionally (make healthy sweet treats) and this is includes fruit juice

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Limit TV, video games and distractions during meal time

• Make eating important to avoid mindless eating

Don’t focus on 1 meal or 1 food, evaluate the overall eating habits of a week

Make dinnertime a family time

• Very important to make time for family meals as it set good example and healthy relationship with food

Offer variety of food and don’t give up

• If kids don’t like it, try it another way

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Ask kids to get more involved with grocery and preparing food

• They get to learn about food and would more likely to eat it.

Have a consistent meal schedule with set time frame for meal time vs snack time

• Regular meal time schedule.  Don’t replace meal with snack choices.