The modern world with its myriad of fast food places can really wreak havoc on a child’s health and well-being. Due to the growing popularity of fast food, parents find it very difficult to teach a child about healthy eating habits. Cheap and easy-to-prepare foods are usually not good for your health. Despite this obvious fact, given a choice between fast food and healthy food, a child will invariably choose fast food.
Getting a child to enjoy healthy food is next to impossible, but there’s no harm in trying. You need to use your creative powers to the fullest, because getting a child to eat healthy isn’t all that easy. You can try some of these methods to encourage your child to eat healthily.
Use fruits and vegetables to prepare your child’s favorite dishes
You may not succeed in teaching your children the importance of eating fresh fruits and vegetables. But they’ll surely appreciate you making apple or banana muffins, or adding a generous helping of spinach to their favorite pizza.
Rename fruits and vegetables
Kids love it when common fruits and vegetables are given fun names. For example, you could name broccoli “trees.” The renaming of fruits and vegetables thus makes them more interesting to eat. Children like to eat foods with unusual names.
Experiment with food
Modify recipes to come up with exciting dishes. For example, you could top broccoli with ranch dressing and celery with peanut butter. Vegetables can be combined in many different ways to make them taste great. You can even allow your kids to choose a topping for any vegetable of their choice, even if you don’t really appreciate your kid’s taste.
Create fun designs
Children like food that looks attractive. Make your dishes look as exciting as possible. Make humorous designs on your plate or stack them to look like animals or people. While some people don’t like playing with food in this way, sometimes getting the child to eat healthily helps.
You’ve just looked at a few ways to get your child interested in healthy eating. Children usually don’t like foods that are good for their health. But if you make healthy foods look and sound as appealing as fast food, there’s every chance your child will spend their life learning to eat and appreciate fruits and vegetables.
Thanks to Abhishek Agarwal
