Nutrition

Encourage Your Children to Eat Right

Encourage your children to eat healthy meals and healthy snacks.

• Avoid high fat food choices, such as fried foods, rich desserts.
• Select restaurants with healthy choices.
• Avoid "super-sizing" fast-food choices.
• Have available healthy snacks such as fruit, crackers, pretzels, and carrots.
• Encourage a variety of foods for good nutrition.
• Remember, snacks have calories too, so limit the amount for each snack.
• Do not encourage children to eat if they are not hungry.

Use the Food Guide Pyramid as the basis for family meals.