Healthy Snacks for Kids

Give Children More Nutrition with Every Snack… Every Little Helps…

Healthy snacks for kids are important to provide more nutrition and energy for them. Children need a lot of good nutrition to develop and to get them through each day, especially at school.

Why are Snacks for Children Important?

Children’s foods are normally not enough for energy and they need healthy snacks to give them the extra energy.

Every time they eat any meals or snacks, it should be an opportunity to give children more nutrition, which they always need to help them to think better, and concentrate for longer.

Always try to limit junk food as that give them empty calories and contributes to restlessness and lack of concentration. Fast foods and junk food contain loads of fat, calories, sugar and salt and do not add much to the amount of nutrition they need. Otherwise, you will have their stomachs filled-up of nothing!

You see, children raised with healthy eating habits do not have a problem really with healthy snacks. Why?

Because that’s how they were raised!

My daughter has no problem eating vegetables, salads, fruits and other healthy snacks for kids. In fact, she loves them to bits. And she’s only 2 years old.

My son, on the other hand, who is now 7 years of age; only just recently has no more problems eating whatever healthy foods I prepare for him. However, his being able to eat them easily without me stressing and fussing over him only started about last year or 2 years ago. Why?

He wasn’t raised on it! I wasn’t giving him vegetables, fruits and salads as such when he was much younger. I wasn’t really eating them either, let alone feed him them!

Parents Pass on Healthy Habits

Isn’t it so true when experts say that what we mostly pass down to our children is the lifestyle we have lived in terms of foods and choices. That’s why obese parents are more likely have obese children, and a diabetic parent is more likely to have a diabetic child. And those that don’t have a habit of filling the house with healthy snacks for children will pass down the same.

If a parent has a high cholesterol level for instance; their cholesterol level would have for the most part, come from how they’re eating and food choices. What do you think they’ll pass on to their children?

No, not cholesterol; but the lifestyle they have lived in terms of diet and how they’ve cooked!

If your children grow up seeing you eating fast food mostly and eating out all the time. They’ll tend to do exactly the same as they saw and learnt while growing up.

It is imperative to teach our kids the importance and significance of nutrition in their lives and yours, as this is what they build upon for their future.

Don’t worry if you haven’t been preparing the right foods and healthy enough meals for your kids to eat; the time to start is NOW. Better late than never. You can start to talk about it to them. It’ll sink in with time.

But you must be persistent and take control. You can indulge them sometimes and you can give them some foods not tremendously healthy, but those should be the minority. The most important thing is that they should be getting good nutrition in their main meals and that their meals are balanced majority of the time.

Don’t over-indulge them. That’s the mistake some of us parents make. Sometimes we feel guilty for other things, and then give them unhealthy, sugary and fatty snacks instead to try to make up for it. Wrong choice.

If this is something you do as a lifestyle, it could backfire health-wise for them, and you’re not actually doing things in their best interests.

Summary…

Make smart choices when it comes to getting healthy snacks for kids, and the decision will pay off for them and for you big time. They need these in their diet for extra nutrition and energy.

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The information here is for general guidance only.
Talk to your doctor before making any changes to your diet and lifestyle.