Getting kids to eat healthy

[mas cambios]

Re: Getting kids to eat healthy

He'll get there, the palate does change with age. I used to hate any green vegetables but I pretty much eat most veg nowadays, even the dreaded green stuff.

I think we have to remember (and someone please correct me if I'm wrong here) that kids taste green vegetables as being nasty, it's an evolutionary throwback to stop them eating poisonous plants back when we all lived in caves etc. It's only when reach adulthood etc that the flavour starts to change and become more palatable.

With regards to fruit, try smoothie, makes it a doodle to get fruit into the diet. Takes a few minutes to prepare and it's something that they can get involved with as well. There are a million recipes all over the web, and you're bound to found a combination that works for your son.

 

[someblokecalleddave]

Re: Getting kids to eat healthy

Trevor - I can't say that I'd be much use to anyone with regards teaching Leg Spin - I've got tons of enthusiasm, theories and ideas, but I'm a learner myself! You've just got to practice practice practice. Oh - and don't go anywhere near the variations until you've got the Leg Break fully sussed. Have a look at the Leg Break thread.

 

[someblokecalleddave]

Re: Getting kids to eat healthy

I think there are some instinctive/biological reactions to some foods. I think it's been proven that some foods react in the body in negative ways to the point that it's a built in reaction to detest Brussel Spouts and a few others. But I think the biggest issue for modern society is the prevalance of sugars and salt in almost everything. There was an interesting documentay recently on the tele and Jamie "Mockney" Oliver did a good program investigating the same theme. The conclusion was that the food industry just pile in sugar and salt into virtually all manufactured and processed food because they know it has addictive qualities that ensure that we come back again and again to it because it tastes nice.

 

[micoach]

Re: Getting kids to eat healthy

Yep, processed food is what I think is making us all fat and unhealthy.

One rule I try and stick by is this: If it comes in a shiny box, don't eat it!

 

[Liz Ward]

Re: Getting kids to eat healthy

Wow! What a thread; got the adrenaline flowing as well as the juices, which is not good as I had an encounter with a few bad prawns on Monday. The little fellas totally floored me and I have not eaten anything since. :cry

... We have these brilliant soups at the weekends that are made of loads of different vegatables and one of them is really tomato heavy. My wife had this idea that you might be able to get kids to eat loads of different veggies made up of version of the tomato soup but with Brocolli, garlic and loads of other things but with limited water and then use it as the tomato base for a home made pizza. As long as the Tomato is the dominant flavour no-one notices that it's full of other good stuff and then you bung on the toppings of your choice but without the salt and garbage they put in shop bought pizzas. Making pizzas is so easy and the kids love helping and they taste so much better than anything you can buy in any shop.

Fantastic!

As for soups, my sons love veggie soups. When they were little, I used to just boil up lots of different veg [nothing else] and whizz them up, with the cooking water, with a hand blender until thick and smooth. Quick, nutritious meal and as the vitamins are water soluble, nothing is lost!

 

[Liz Ward]

Re: Getting kids to eat healthy

Trevor - I can't say that I'd be much use to anyone with regards teaching Leg Spin - I've got tons of enthusiasm, theories and ideas, but I'm a learner myself! You've just got to practice practice practice. Oh - and don't go anywhere near the variations until you've got the Leg Break fully sussed. Have a look at the Leg Break thread.

Dave, I met Charlie at the County Indoor Cricket School, he is a natural; if you get a chance to get together sometime this year, I assure you, the benefit will be mutual.

 

[mas cambios]

Re: Getting kids to eat healthy

There was an interesting documentay recently on the tele and Jamie "Mockney" Oliver did a good program investigating the same theme. The conclusion was that the food industry just pile in sugar and salt into virtually all manufactured and processed food because they know it has addictive qualities that ensure that we come back again and again to it because it tastes nice.

I agree with that 100%. I use very little salt in cooking and almost never put any on my food when eating, but when I eat rubbish/microwave meals/takeaways etc it's all I can taste.

It puts me off for a quite while and to be honest is quite nasty.